Columbia Law Times: A Monthly Review Devoted to Law and Political Science, Volume 6Dennis, 1893 |
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... questions may be publicly discussed ? Why is it to - day that fraud in government , or in insurance company , or in railroad corpora- tion may be exposed by the newspaper press ? Not because Parliament , or Congress or Constitution ...
... questions may be publicly discussed ? Why is it to - day that fraud in government , or in insurance company , or in railroad corpora- tion may be exposed by the newspaper press ? Not because Parliament , or Congress or Constitution ...
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... question . Out of this method sprang the jury system . The original jury was made up of twelve men who knew the parties and knew the circumstances . The men who knew about the quarrel best were brought together and constituted the jury ...
... question . Out of this method sprang the jury system . The original jury was made up of twelve men who knew the parties and knew the circumstances . The men who knew about the quarrel best were brought together and constituted the jury ...
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... question until the full merits are brought out in the court room . The lawyer has one other function . Men look upon him as a fighter , but the true lawyer is pre - eminently a peace - maker . The true lawyer is a man who has a ...
... question until the full merits are brought out in the court room . The lawyer has one other function . Men look upon him as a fighter , but the true lawyer is pre - eminently a peace - maker . The true lawyer is a man who has a ...
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... question , for the legislator cannot do that , which is solely the work of time . Why should this strange antinomy exist in contemporary society that the majority , who have the sovereignty , should make one excep- tion and that , too ...
... question , for the legislator cannot do that , which is solely the work of time . Why should this strange antinomy exist in contemporary society that the majority , who have the sovereignty , should make one excep- tion and that , too ...
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... question can now be discussed whether or not the reorganization has proved a success . At the outset , it must be clearly understood that numbers do not form any criterion of success . Every action on the part of the faculty , every ...
... question can now be discussed whether or not the reorganization has proved a success . At the outset , it must be clearly understood that numbers do not form any criterion of success . Every action on the part of the faculty , every ...
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Page 184 - Chinese subjects visiting or residing in the United States shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation...
Page 57 - In any case in which the constitutionality of any law of the United States, or the validity or construction of any treaty made under its authority, is drawn in question. In any case in which the constitution or law of a State is claimed to be in contravention of the Constitution of the United States.
Page 57 - ... from the district courts or from the existing circuit courts direct to the Supreme Court either by the United States or by the defendants. Sec. 19. That whenever the navigation of any river, lake, harbor, sound, bay, canal, or other navigable waters of the United States...
Page 199 - Pacific Ocean," as used in the Treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia; and what rights, if any, in the Behring's Sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said Treaty?
Page 94 - A future estate is an estate limited to commence in possession at a future day, either without the intervention of a precedent estate or on the determination, by lapse of time or otherwise, of a precedent estate created at the same time.
Page 183 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects, respectively, from the one country to the other, for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 94 - A future estate Is either vested or contingent. It is vested, when there is a person in being, who would have an immediate right to the possession of the property, on the determination of all the intermediate or precedent estates. It is contingent while the person to whom or the event on which It is limited to take effect remains uncertain.
Page 184 - Citizens of the United States shall enjoy all the privileges of the public educational institutions under the control of the government of China; and, reciprocally, Chinese subjects shall enjoy all the privileges of the public educational institutions under the control of the government of the United States, which are enjoyed in the respective countries by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 59 - I2mo, cloth, gilt top $1.50 A romance of the convulsive period of the struggle between the French and English for the possession of North America. The story is one of pure love and heroic adventure, and deals with that fiery fringe of conflict that waved between Nova Scotia and New England.
Page 113 - Whene'er you speak, remember every cause Stands not on eloquence, but stands on laws ; Pregnant in matter, in expression brief, Let every sentence stand with bold relief; On trifling points nor time nor talents waste, A sad...