The Court-house of the District of ColumbiaPress of Judd & Detweiler, Incorporated, 1919 - 95 páginas |
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Página 80 - A king lived long ago, In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now; And the king's locks curled, Disparting o'er a forehead full As the milk-white space 'twixt horn and horn Of some sacrificial bull — Only calm as a babe new-born: For he was got to a sleepy mood, So safe from all decrepitude, Age with its bane, so sure gone by, (The gods so loved him while he dreamed) That, having lived thus long, there seemed No need the king should ever die.
Página 51 - Reporter from time to time publishes the important decisions of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia is...
Página 34 - ... shall be, and the same is hereby, forever ceded and relinquished to the congress and government of the United States, in full and absolute right, and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the government of the United States...
Página 39 - When any offense against the United States is begun in one Judicial District and completed in another, it shall be deemed to have been committed in either, and may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either district, in the same manner as if it had been actually and wholly committed therein.
Página 40 - ... equity between parties, both or either of which shall be resident or be found within said district, and also of all actions or suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, in which the United States shall be plaintiffs or complainants ; and of all seizures on land or water, and all penalties and forfeitures made, arising or accruing under the laws of the United States.
Página 49 - Columbia, or by any justice thereof, whereby the possession of property is changed or affected, such as orders for the appointment of receivers, granting injunctions, dissolving writs of attachment, and the like...
Página 34 - That the jurisdiction of the laws of this state over the persons and property of individuals, residing within the limits of the cession aforesaid, shall not cease, or determine, until Congress shall by law provide for the government thereof, under their jurisdiction, in manner provided by the article of the constitution before recited.
Página 40 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Página 51 - The Congress of the United States, being empowered by the Constitution "to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever " over the seat of the National Government, has the entire control over the District of Columbia for every purpose of government, national or local. It may exercise within the District all legislative powers that the legislature of a State might exercise within the State...
Página 41 - River were the eastern boundary of the lands in question, the lines could not, under the decisions of that court as well as those of the Supreme Court of the United States, extend beyond high-water mark at that time, citing Pollard v. Hagan (3 Ala. 291), affirmed as above stated in 3 How. 212 (p.