United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 285

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Página 8 - In the case of an alien resident of the United States, the amount of any such taxes paid during the taxable year to any foreign country, if the foreign country of which such alien resident is a citizen or subject, in imposing such taxes, allows a similar credit to citizens of the United States residing in such country...
Página 31 - Constitution, extends the judicial power of the United States " to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...
Página 114 - Unless otherwise provided by agreement in writing added hereto this Company shall not be liable for loss or damage occurring.
Página 215 - Where a negotiable instrument is materially altered without the assent of all parties liable thereon, it is avoided, except as against a party who has himself made, authorized or assented to the alteration, and subsequent indorsers.
Página 142 - There is no doubt that the statute could tax salaries to those who earned them and provide that the tax could not be escaped by anticipatory arrangements and contracts however skillfully devised to prevent the salary when paid from vesting even for a second in the man who earned it.
Página 311 - We may strike down the statute which embodies it, on the ground that, in our opinion, the measure is arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable.
Página 341 - It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.
Página 43 - Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The commission or a commissioner or deputy commissioner in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure, except as provided by this chapter; but may make such investigation or inquiry or conduct such hearing in such manner as to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties.
Página 62 - ... full power and authority to hear and determine all questions in respect of such claim.
Página 389 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line...

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