Category: G
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Garnishment Decrees
Garnishment DecreesGarnishment proceedings combine some of the elements of both an in rem and an in personam action. Suppose that A owes B and B owes C, and that the two former live in a different state from C. A, while on a brief visit to C's state, is presented with a writ attaching his…
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Government Contractors
In the course of his opinion in Osborn v. Bank of the United States,1 Chief Justice Marshall posed the question: "Can a contractor for supplying a military post with provisions, be restrained from making purchases within any state, or from trans…
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Grants of Jurisdiction
Clause 1. Cases and Controversies; Grants of JurisdictionThe Judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;-to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public…
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Grain Futures Act
Stockyards and Grain Futures ActsIn 1921, Congress passed the Packers and Stockyards Act,1 whereby the business of commission men and livestock dealers in the chief stockyards of the country was brought under national supervision, and in the year fol…
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Grants of Franchise
Grants of Franchise to Corporations by Two States (Interstate Compacts)It is competent for a railroad corporation organized under the laws of one state, when authorized so to do by the consent of the state that created it, to accept authority from another state to extend its railroad into such state…