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CASES.—Constitutional Law.Continued.


Impairing obligation of contracts; repeal of charter (also note) 336, 382
Eminent domain 287
Equality; class legislation 143
Ex post facto law; Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888 287
Act void in part 288
Impairing obligation of contracts 288
By exercise of police power 236
Infamous crime under Fifth Amendment 336
Interstate commerce 386
Sleeping-cars 97
Intoxicating liquor 97
Drummer tax 235
Licensing engineers 236
Prohibition; due process of law 236
Telegraph companies 143, 236
Jury; right to trial by 288
Trial by eleven jurors with prisoner’s consent 143
Liberty to pursue a trade 143
Local option 235
Not a delegation of legislative power 49
Local self-government subject to State control 288
Patent obtained by fraud may be revoked by United States 288
Police power; civil rights 236
Revocation of physician’s license by State 188
Prohibition 97
Suits against States 188
Testimony by defendant against himself 187
Tonnage duty on vessels engaged in oyster dredging 386
Woman suffrage (note) 231
Contempt of Court. Advertisements for evidence 237
Contents. Fraud inferred from gross inadequacy of consideration 336
Specific performance 289
When vendor has devised land 289
Contract Labor. See Immigration.
Contracts. Consideration; forbearance to sue 49
General assumpsit; promissory note as evidence of debt 51
Right of beneficiary to sue 97
Acceptance of offer by telegram 289
Check of third person good consideration for release from debt of larger amount 289
See, also, Conflict of Laws: Quasi-contract.
Conversion. See Trover.
Copyright. Adaptation of sheet-music to organettes 50
Extracts from a book 97
Reports of decisions 336
Corporations. Civil liability of charitable corporations 49
Corporations cannot enter into partnership 144
Contracts in restraint of trade 237