Source: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Date: 1806-03-01
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 1 Cranch 299 · 1 D.C. 299
Opinion
But the CouRT said, that the words of the Act of Assembly, were too clear and positive to admit of a doubt, and this Court cannot say, that a practice, not sanctioned' by any judicial decision, and in opposition to the express words of the act, is a correct practice.