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# Koon v. Insurance Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
104 U.S. 106
Koon v. Insurance Company
The stipulation 'that the jury might, when they had agreed on their verdict, if the court should not then be in session, sign and seal the same, and deliver the same to the officer in charge and disperse,' was equivalent to an agreement by both parties, on the retirement of the jury, that the court might, when the sealed verdict was handed in by the officer, open it in the absence of the jury and reduce it to proper form, if necessary. The stipulation was also a waiver of the right to poll the jury if they should not be in court.
The issue to be tried was on a plea of nil debet. This admitted the execution of the bond, and required the jury only to find the amount due. If anything was found to be due, the law fixed the form of the verdict and judgment. The jury found there was $7,500 due on the debt and one cent damages for the detention. That finding, reduced to proper form, was in favor of the plaintiff for the penalty of the bond, to be discharged on payment of $7,500. All the court did was to enter the verdict in that form. In doing so it only gave legal effect to what the jury unmistakably found. This was allowable, both under sect. 954 of the Revised Statutes and the Practice Act of Illinois.
Judgment affirmed.

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# Kopal-Kundala

Translation published in 1885.
KOPAL-KUNDALA:
A Tale of Bengali Life:
TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI OF BUNKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJEE
BY
H. A. D. PHILLIPS,
BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE, SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD.
LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1885.
[All rights reserved.]
TO MY UNCLE,
H. D. PHILLIPS, Esq., J.P.,
FORMERLY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT AND MEMBER OF THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL, MADRAS,
THIS VOLUME
IS
affectionately inscribed.
CONTENTS.
Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON
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# La Source

"A haunt the mountain roadside near,"
* Edmund Clarence Stedman (1897), "La Source" in Poems, now first collected.
* Edmund Clarence Stedman (1908), "La Source" in The poems of Edmund Clarence Stedman.
# La Tourette v. McMaster

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United States Supreme Court
248 U.S. 465
La Tourette v. McMaster
Argued: Dec. 19, 1918. --- Decided: Jan 20, 1919
Messrs. John L. McLaurin, of Bennettsville, S.C.., and Wendell P. Barker, of New York City, for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Thomas H. Peeples and C. N. Sapp, both of Columbia, S.C.., and Fred H. Dominick, of Newberry, S.C.., for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Labine v. Vincent

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## Concurring Opinion

    Harlan

## Dissenting Opinion

    Brennan
United States Supreme Court
401 U.S. 532
Labine, Tutrix v. Vincent, Administrator
Appeal from the Supreme Court of Louisiana
No. 5257. Argued: January 19, 1971 --- Decided: March 29, 1971
Ezra Vincent died intestate, survived by only collateral relations and an illegitimate daughter, whose guardian (appellant) sued to have her declared Vincent's sole heir. The trial court ruled that under Louisiana law the collateral relations took the decedent's property to the exclusion of the daughter, who had been acknowledged by her father but not legitimated. The Louisiana Court of Appeal affirmed. The State Supreme Court denied certiorari. Appellant, relying on Levy v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 68, contends that Louisiana's intestate succession laws that bar an illegitimate child from sharing equally with legitimate children in the father's estate constitute an invidious discrimination violative of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution.
Held: The Louisiana statutory intestate succession scheme is within the State's power to establish rules for the protection and strengthening of family life and for the disposition of property, and in view of various statutory alternatives, none of which was chosen by Vincent, did not (unlike the situation in Levy) constitute an insurmountable barrier to illegitimate children. Pp. 535-540.
255 La. 480, 230 So. 2d 395, affirmed. See: 229 So. 2d 449.
BLACK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and HARLAN, STEWART, and BLACKMUN, JJ., joined. HARLAN, J., filed a concurring opinion, post, p. 540. BRENNAN, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which DOUGLAS, WHITE, and MARSHALL, JJ., joined, post, p. 541.
James J. Cox argued the cause and filed a brief for appellant.
James A. Leithead argued the cause for appellee. With him on the brief was Norman F. Anderson.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Harry D. Krause, Norman Dorsen, and Melvin L. Wulf for the American Civil Liberties Union, and by Jonathan Weiss and David Gilman for the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Jack P.F. Gremillion, Attorney General, for the State of Louisiana, and by A. Leon Hebert and E. Drew McKinnis for the Buras Heirs et al.

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# Labine v. Vincent/Concurrence Harlan

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United States Supreme Court
401 U.S. 532
Labine v. Vincent
Argued: Jan. 19, 1971. --- Decided: March 29, 1971
Mr. Justice HARLAN, concurring.
In joining the opinion of the Court, I wish to add a few words, prompted, I may say, by the dissenting opinion, which in my view evinces extravagant notions of what constitutes a denial of 'equal protection' in the constitutional sense.
It is surely entirely reasonable for Louisiana to provide that a man who has entered into a marital relationship thereby undertakes obligations to any resulting offspring beyond those which he owes to the products of a casual liaison, and this whether or not he admits the fact of fatherhood in the latter case. With respect to a substantial portion of a man's estate, these greater obligations stemming from marriage are imposed by the provision of Louisiana law making a man's legitimate children his forced heirs. For the remainder of his estate, these obligations are not absolute, but are conditional upon his not disposing of his property in other ways. With all respect to my dissenting Brethren, I deem little short of frivolous the contention that the Equal Protection Clause prohibits enforcement of marital obligations, in either the mandatory or the suppletive form. See H. M. Hart & A. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Law 35-36, 251-256 (tent. ed. 1958).
In addition to imposing these obligations, Louisiana law prohibits testamentary dispositions to one's illegitimate children. Even were my dissenting Brethren prepared to hold this rule of law unconstitutional, to do so would not affect the outcome of this case. First, appellant's child is 'natural' rather than 'illegitimate'; and second, if the father desired her to have his property after his death, he did not manifest that desire in the appropriate way.
Mr. Justice BRENNAN, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, Mr. Justice WHITE, and Mr. Justice MARSHALL join, dissenting.

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# Letters to Atticus/3.13

Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh

## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, 5 August 58 BC

As to my having written you word that I meant to go to Epirus, I changed my plan when I saw that my hope was vanishing and fading away, and did not remove from Thessalonica. I resolved to remain there until I heard from you on the subject mentioned in your last letter, namely, that there was going to be some motion made in the senate on my case immediately after the elections, and that Pompey had told you so. Wherefore, as the elections are over and I have no letter from you, I shall consider it as though you had written to say that nothing has come of it, and I shall not feel annoyed at having been buoyed up by a hope which did not keep me long in suspense. But the movement, which you said in your letter that you foresaw as likely to be to my advantage, people arriving here tell me will not occur. My sole remaining hope is in the tribunes-designate: and if I wait to see how that turns out, you will have no reason to think of me as having been wanting to my own cause or the wishes of my friends. As to your constantly finding fault with me for being so overwhelmed by my misfortune, you ought to pardon me when you see that I have sustained a more crushing blow than anyone you have ever seen or heard of. As to your saying that you are told that my intellect in even affected by grief, that is not so; my intellect is quite sound. Oh that it had been as much so in the hour of danger! when I found those, to whom I thought my safety was the dearest object of their life, most bitterly and unfeelingly hostile: who, when they saw that I had somewhat lost my balance from fear, left nothing undone which malice and treachery could suggest in giving me the final push, to my utter ruin. Now, as I must go to Cyzicus, where I shall get letters more rarely, I beg you to write me word all the more carefully of everything you may think I ought to know. Be sure you are affectionate to my brother Quintus: if in all my misery I still leave him with rights undiminished, I shall not Consider myself utterly ruined.
5 August.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The probable split among the triumvirs, alluded to in Letter LXIII.
# Letters to Atticus/3.14

Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh

## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, 21 July 58 BC

From your letter I am full of anxiety to hear what Pompey's view is of my case, or what he professes to be his view. The elections, I presume, are over; and when they were over you say that he was of opinion that my case should be mooted. If I seem foolish to you for entertaining hopes, it is at your bidding that I do so: yet I know that you have in your letters been usually inclined rather to check me and my hopes. Now pray write distinctly what your view is. I know that I have fallen into this distress from numerous errors of my own. If certain accidents have in any degree corrected those errors, I shall be less sorry that I preserved my life then and am still living. Owing to the constant traffic along the road and the daily expectation of political change, I have as yet not removed from Thessalonica. But now I am being forced away, not by Plancius—for he, indeed, wishes to keep me here—but by the nature of the place, which is not at all calculated for the residence of a disfranchised man in such a state of sorrow. I have not gone to Epirus, as I had said I would, because all of a sudden the messages and letters that arrived have all indicated it to be unnecessary for me to be in the immediate neighbourhood of Italy. From this place, as soon as I have heard something about the elections, I shall set my face towards Asia, but to what particular part I am not yet certain: however, you shall know. Thessalonica, 21 July.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The via Egnatia, the road across Macedonia, which was one of the great channels of communication between Rome and the East, and which terminated at Thessalonica.
# Letters to Atticus/3.16

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## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, 19 August 58 BC

My whole journey is in suspense till I receive letters from you all of the 1st of August. For if there turns out to be any hope, I am for Epirus: if not, I shall make for Cyzicus or some other place. Your letter is cheerful indeed, but at the same time, the oftener I read it, the more it weakens the suggested ground for hope, so that it is easy to see that you are trying to minister at once to consolation and to truth. Accordingly, I beg you to write to me exactly what you know and exactly what you think.
19 August.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Reading laetae for lectae.
# Letters to Atticus/3.19

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## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, 15 September 58 BC

As long as my letters from you all continued to be of such a nature as to keep expectation alive, I was bound to Thessalonica by hope and eager longing: afterwards, when all political measures for this year appeared to me to be over, I yet determined not to go to Asia, both because a crowd of people is disagreeable to me, and because, in case any movement was set on foot by the new magistrates, I was unwilling to be far off. Accordingly, I resolved to go to your house in Epirus, not because the natural features of the country mattered to me, shunning as I do the light of day altogether, but because it will be most grateful to my feelings to set out fr?m a harbour of yours to my restoration; and, if that restoration is denied me, there is no place where I shall with greater ease either support this most wretched existence or (which is much better) rid myself of it. I shall be in a small society : I shall shake off the crowd. Your letters have never raised me to such a pitch of hope as those of others; and yet my hopes have always been less warm than your letters. Nevertheless, since a beginning has been made in the case, of whatever sort and from whatever motive, I will not disappoint the sad and touching entreaties of my best and only brother, nor the promises of Sestius and others, nor the hopes of my most afflicted wife, nor the entreaties of my most unhappy Tulliola, as well as your own loyal letter. Epirus will furnish me with a road to restoration or to that other alternative mentioned above. I beg and entreat of you, Titus Pomponius, as you see that I have been despoiled by the treachery of men of all that most adds splendour to life, of all that can most gratify and delight the soul, as you see that I have been betrayed and cast away by my own advisers, as you understand that I have been forced to ruin myself and my family-help me by your compassion, and support my brother Quintus who is still capable of being saved; protect Terentia and my children. For myself, if you think it possible that you may see me at Rome, wait for me; if not, come to see me if you can, and make over to me just so much of your land as may be covered by my corpse. Finally, send slaves to me with letters as soon and as often as possible.
15 September.
# Letters to Atticus/3.21

Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh

## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, 28 October 58 BC

It is exactly thirty days to the writing of this letter since I have heard from you. Well, my present intention is, as I have told you, to go into Epirus and there by preference to await whatever may turn up. I beg you to write to me with the utmost openness whatever you perceive to be the state of the case, and whether it is for good or evil, and also to send a letter, as you say, in my name to whomsoever you think it necessary.
28 October.
# Letters to Atticus/3.17

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## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, 4 September 58 BC

News of my brother Quintus of an invariably gloomy nature reached me from the 3rd of June up to the 29th of August. On that day, however, Livineius, a freedman of Lucius Regulus, came to me by the direction of Regulus himself. He announced that absolutely no notice whatever had been given of a prosecution, but that there had, nevertheless, been some talk about the son of C. Clodius. He also brought me a letter from my brother Quintus. But next day Came the slaves of Sestius, who brought me a letter from you not so positive in regard to this alarm as the Conversation of Livineius had been. I am rendered very anxious in the midst of my own endless distress, and the more so as Appius has the trial of the Case. As to other circumstances mentioned in the same letter by you in Connexion with my hopes, I understand that things are going less well than other people represent them. I, however, since we are now not far from the time at which the matter will be decided, will either go to your house or will still remain somewhere in this neighbourhood. My brother writes me word that his interests are being supported by you more than by anyone else. Why should I urge you to do what you are already doing? or offer you thanks which you do not expect? I only pray that fortune may give us the opportunity of enjoying our mutual affection in security. I am always very anxious to get your letters, in which I beg you not to be afraid of your minuteness boring me, or your plain speaking giving me pain.
4 September.

## Footnotes

* ↑ L. Livineius Regulus, whom Cicero (F. 13.60) calls a very intimate friend, and says that his freedman Trypho stood his friend in the hour of need. He seems to have been condemned (in B.C. 56?) for something, but he afterwards served under lulius Caesar (B. Afr. 89). The freedman's full name was L. Livineius Trypho.
* ↑ About Appius acting as prosecutor of Quintus. He was a nephew of P. Clodius. See Letter CCXXII.
* ↑ Appius Claudius Pulcher, brother of P. Clodius, was praetor-designate for B.C. 57, and had allotted to him the quaestio de rebus repetundis (pro Sest. § 78). He was consul B.C. 54.
# Letters to Atticus/3.18

Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh

## To Atticus at Rome
### Thessalonica, September 58 BC

You raised no little flutter in my mind when you said in your letter that Varro had assured you as a friend that Pompey would certainly take up my case, and that as soon as he had received a letter from Caesar, which he was expecting, he would even name some one to formally carry out the business. Was that all mere talk, or was the letter from Caesar hostile? Is there some ground for hope? You mentioned, too, that Pompey had also used the expression "after the elections." Pray, as you can conceive the severity of the troubles by which I am prostrated, and as you must think it natural to your kindness to do so, inform me fully as to the whole state of my case. For my brother Quintus, dear good fellow, who is so much attached to me, fills his letters with hopeful expressions, fearing, I suppose, my entirely losing heart. Whereas your letters vary in tone; for you won t have me either despair or cherish rash hopes. I beseech you to let me know everything as far as you can detect the truth.
# Letters to Atticus/3.2

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## To Atticus at Rome
### Nares Lucanae, 8 April 58 BC

The reason for having come this journey is that there was no place where I could be independent except on Sica's estate, especially till the bill is emended, and at the same time because I find that from this spot I can reach Brundisium, if you were only with me, but without you I cannot stay in those parts owing to Autronius. At present, as I said in my previous letter, if you will come to me, we shall be able to form a plan for the whole business. I know the journey is troublesome, but the whole Calamity is full of troubles. I Cannot write more, I am so heart-broken and dejected. Take Care of your health. From Nares Lucanae, 8 April.

## Footnotes

* ↑ A friend of Cicero's, of whose death at Brundisium we afterwards hear (Fam. 14.4.6).
* ↑ The bill originally named 500 miles as the distance from Italy Before passing it had to be put up in public three weeks (trinundinae), and meanwhile might be amended, and was amended to 400.
* ↑ P. Autronius Paetus, one of Catiline's confederates, who would injure Cicero if he could. Cicero would not be able to reach Epirus without coming within his reach; for he had been condemned for ambitus, and was in exile there or in Achaia. Illas partes=Epirus.
* ↑ Nares Lucanae (Monte Nero), near the River Silarus, and on the via Popilia (south-western branch of the Appia). Cicero has therefore come north again from Vibo, having given up the idea of Rhegium and Sicily, and making for Beneventum, and so by the via Appia for Brundisium.
# Leather Manufacturers National Bank v. Merchants' National Bank

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United States Supreme Court
128 U.S. 26
Leather Manufacturers National Bank v. Merchants' National Bank
John E. Parsons, for plaintiff in error.
[Statement of Case from pages 26-30 intentionally omitted]
J. E. Burrill, for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 30-33 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice GRAY, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Leather Manufacturers' National Bank v. Cooper

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United States Supreme Court
120 U.S. 778
Leather Manufacturers' National Bank v. Cooper
Chas. M. Da Costa and N. B. Sanborn, for plaintiff in error.
John M. Bowers, for defendant in error.
WAITE, C. J.

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# Leathe v. Thomas

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United States Supreme Court
207 U.S. 93
Leathe v. Thomas
Argued: October 17, 1907. --- Decided: November 11, 1907
Messrs. John Maynard Harlan, James S. Harlan, and Victor Koerner for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 93-94 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Edward L. Thomas in propria persona for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 94-96 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# In the South (Custance)

"I was pale and sad in the South like the olive-trees"
* "In the South", in The Blue Bird (1905)
* "In the South", in The Inn of Dreams (1911)
# In the Thick of the Fight

Extracted from Cassell's Family magazine, Vol. 22 1896, pp. 204-216; 480-490; 718-729. Accompanying illustrations omitted.
IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT.
BY L. T. MEADE
* Story I.—Matthew Gray's Wife
* Story II.—The Heart of Victoria.
* Story III.—The Diamond Crescent
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# In the Shadows

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* "In the Shadows", a poem by E. Pauline Johnson.
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