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# Continental Assurance Company v. Tennessee/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
311 U.S. 5
Continental Assurance Company v. Tennessee
Argued: Oct. 21, 1940. ---
The State of Tennessee brought this suit to enforce payment of privilege taxes measured by premiums on policies of insurance issued while appellant was doing business within the State, but upon which the premiums were paid after its withdrawal from the State. Appellant contended that since its withdrawal it had transacted no business within the State; that the policyholders there had mailed their premiums on unmatured policies to the home office of appellant in another State; and that to hold it liable for the taxes demanded would deprive it of its property in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee sustained the tax. It construed the statutory provisions to mean 'that the tax is levied upon the right to do business in the state, measured by a percentage of annual premiums to the exclusion of all other taxes, the tax on the annual premiums to be paid throughout the life of policies issued'; that though 'measured by two and a half per cent of premiums received on policies issued by the company while exercising its license from the state, the tax was levied upon the privilege of entering the state and engaging in the insurance business, and not upon the annual premiums'; and that the appellant 'by its compliance with the statute adopted and agreed to the construction we have given it, and cannot now repudiate its provisions'. 137 S.W.2d 277, 278.
This construction of the statute distinguishes the case from that of Provident Savings Life Assurance Society v. Kentucky, 239 U.S. 103, 36 S.Ct. 34, 60 L.Ed. 167, L.R.A.1916C, 572. There the question under the statute, as it had been construed by the state court, was whether the insurance company continued to do business within the State for the period under consideration, despite the fact that it had withdrawn from the State, merely because of the receipt of premiums after withdrawal. The tax was not laid upon the privilege of doing business during the period that the company was actually within the State, the tax on that privilege being measured by the premiums received during the life of the policies. Id., 239 U.S. pages 110, 111, 36 S.Ct. page 36, 60 L.Ed. 167, L.R.A.1916C, 572. The Supreme Court of Tennessee emphasized the point of this distinction in its opinion on rehearing. 138 S.W.2d 447. Compare State v. Connecticut Mut. Life Insurance Company, 106 Tenn. 282, 333-335, 61 S.W. 75.
The appeal is dismissed for the want of a substantial federal question.

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# Continental Casualty Company v. United States (292 U.S. 641)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
292 U.S. 641
Continental Casualty Company v. United States
For opinion below, see 68 F.(2d) 577.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.

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# Continental Assurance Company v. Tennessee

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United States Supreme Court
311 U.S. 5
Continental Assurance Company v. Tennessee
Argued: Oct. 21, 1940. ---
Mr. Charles C. Trabue, Jr., of Nashville, Tenn., for appellant.
PER CURIAM.

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# Continental Baking Company v. Woodring

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United States Supreme Court
286 U.S. 352
Continental Baking Company v. Woodring
Argued: and Submitted April 25, 1932. --- Decided: May 23, 1932
[Syllabus from pages 352-354 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Charles R. Wilke, of Lincoln, Neb., and John C. Grover, of Kansas City, Mo., for appellants.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 354-356 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Walter T. Griffin, of Topeka, Kan., for appellees.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Continental Casualty Company v. Robertson Lumber Company

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United States Supreme Court
394 U.S. 714
Continental Casualty Company v. Robertson Lumber Company
Kahl K. Spriggs and James L. Lamb, for appellants.
Harold D. Shaft, for appellee.
Solicitor General Griswold, for the United States.
PER CURIAM.

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# Continental Casualty Company v. United States (292 U.S. 641)

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United States Supreme Court
292 U.S. 641
Continental Casualty Company v. United States
Mr. William P. Smith, of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

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# Continental Casualty Company v. Robertson Lumber Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
394 U.S. 714
Continental Casualty Company v. Robertson Lumber Company
The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for a writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied.

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# Continental Casualty Company v. United States

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# Demorest v. City Bank Farmers Trust Company

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United States Supreme Court
321 U.S. 36
Demorest v. City Bank Farmers Trust Company
Argued: Dec. 10, 1943. --- Decided: Jan 17, 1944
On Appeals from the Surrogate's Court of New York County, State of New york.
Mr. Francis J. Mahoney, for appellants Demorest.
Mr. James N. Vaughan, for appellant Dyett.
Mr. Albert Stickney, for appellee Emma M. West.
Mr. C. Alexander Capron, for appellee City Bank Farmers Trust Co., trustee.
Mr. Louis J. Merrell, for appellees Title Guarantee & Trust Co. and others.
Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Demosthenes

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Part of the "Ancient Classics for English Readers", supplementary series, the books of which series are useful as a preliminary acquaintance to readers that wish to read the ancient texts for the first time and also a nice interpretation of them for readers that are already acquainted with them.
Ancient Classics for English Readers
EDITED BY THE
REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.
(SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES.)
DEMOSTHENES
DEMOSTHENES
BY THE
Rev. W. J. BRODRIBB, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXXVII
PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS.
NOTE.
For the extracts from the speeches of Demosthenes given in this volume I am to a considerable extent indebted to the scholarly version of the late Mr C. R. Kennedy. For the famous speech on the Crown, I have made occasional use of a translation recently published by an eminent English lawyer, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Collier. The same speech was, some years ago, translated by Mr William Brandt, a scholar of Oriel College, Oxford, whose premature death cut short a life of great promise. His rendering of the Greek orator is spirited and vigorous, and I wish to express my obligations to it.
W. J. B.
CONTENTS.
Map: Greece and its adjacent Islands.
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# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1830 Anti-Masonic Party Resolution

Anti-Masonic Resolution, Philadelphia, September.
Resolved, That it is recommended to the people of the United States, opposed to secret societies, to meet in convention on Monday, the 26th day of September, 1831, at the city of Baltimore, by delegates equal in number to their representatives in both Houses of Congress, to make nominations of suitable candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President, to be supported at the next election, and for the transaction of such other business as the cause of Anti-Masonry may require.
# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1836 Locofoco Platform

Locofoco Platform, New York, January.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created free and equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that the true foundation of republican government is the equal rights of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management; that the idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural right; that the rightful power of all legislation is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us; that no man has the natural right to commit aggressions on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the law ought to restrain him; that every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of society, and this is all the law should enforce on him; that when the laws have declared and enforced all this, they have fulfilled their functions.
We declare unqualified hostility to bank notes and paper money as a circulating medium, because gold and silver is the only safe and constitutional currency; hostility to any and all monopolies by legislation, because they are violations of equal rights of the people; hostility to the dangerous and unconstitutional creation of vested rights or prerogatives by legislation, because they are usurpations of the people’s sovereign rights; no legislative or other authority in the body politic can rightfully, by charter or otherwise, exempt any man or body of men, in any case whatever, from trial by jury and the jurisdiction or operation of the laws which govern the community.
We hold that each and every law or act of incorporation, passed by preceding legislatures, can be rightfully altered and ​repealed by their successors; and that they should be altered or repealed, when necessary for the public good, or when required by a majority of the people.
# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1836 Whig Party Resolutions

Whig Resolutions, Albany, N. Y., February 3.
Resolved, That in support of our cause, we invite all citizens opposed to Martin Van Buren and the Baltimore nominees.
Resolved, That Martin Van Buren, by intriguing with the executive to obtain his influence to elect him to the presidency, has set an example dangerous to our freedom and corrupting to our free institutions.
Resolved, That the support we render to William H. Harrison is by no means given to him solely on account of his brilliant and successful services as leader of our armies during the last war, but that in him we view also the man of high intellect, the stern patriot, uncontaminated by the machinery of hackneyed politicians—a man of the school of Washington.
Resolved, That in Francis Granger we recognize one of our most distinguished fellow-citizens, whose talents we admire, whose patriotism we trust, and whose principles we sanction.
# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1844 Whig Party Platform

Whig Platform, Baltimore, May 1.
1. Resolved, That these principles may be summed as comprising a well-regulated national currency: a tariff for revenue to defray the necessary expenses of the government, and discriminating with special reference to the protection of the domestic labor of the country; the distribution of the proceeds from the sales of the public lands; a single term for the presidency; a reform of executive usurpations; and generally such an administration of the affairs of the country as shall impart to every branch of the public service the greatest practical efficiency, controlled by a well-regulated and wise economy.
# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1832 National Republican Platform

National Republican Platform, adopted at a ratification meeting at Washington City, May 11.
Resolved, That an adequate protection to American industry is indispensable to the prosperity of the country; and that an abandonment of the policy at this period would be attended with consequences ruinous to the best interests of the nation.
Resolved, That a uniform system of internal improvements, sustained and supported by the general government, is calculated to secure, in the highest degree, the harmony, the strength and permanency of the republic.
Resolved, That the indiscriminate removal of public officers for a mere difference of political opinion, is a gross abuse of power; and that the doctrine lately boldly preached in the United States Senate, that “to the victors belong the spoils of the vanquished,” is detrimental to the interests, corrupting to the morals, and dangerous to the liberties of the country.
# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1839 Abolition Party Resolution

Abolition Resolution, Warsaw, N. Y., November 13.
Resolved, That, in our judgment, every consideration of duty and expediency which ought to control the action of Christian freemen, requires of the Abolitionists of the United States to organize a distinct and independent political party, embracing all the necessary means for nominating candidates for office and sustaining them by public suffrage.
# Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1844 Democratic Party Platform

Democratic Platform, Baltimore, May 27.
Resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, of the platform of 1840, were reaffirmed, to which were added the following:
10. Resolved, That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the constitution, and that we are opposed to the laws lately adopted, and to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the states, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the constitution.
11. Resolved, That we are decidedly opposed to taking from the President the qualified veto power by which he is enabled, under restrictions and responsibilities amply sufficient to guard the public interest, to suspend the passage of a bill whose merits can not secure the approval of two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, until the judgment of the people can be obtained thereon, and which has thrice saved the American people from the corrupt and tyrannical domination of the bank of the United States.
12. Resolved, That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period, are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the democracy of the Union.
# Danube

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* "Danube," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
* "Danube," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
# Danville Water Company v. Danville

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## Dissenting Opinion

    White
United States Supreme Court
180 U.S. 619
Danville Water Company v. Danville
Argued: November 12, 1900. --- Decided: March 25, 1901
Messrs. Alexander Pope Humphrey and William W. Davies for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. G. F. Rearick and John H. Lewman for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Danville Water Company v. Danville/Dissent White

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United States Supreme Court
180 U.S. 619
Danville Water Company v. Danville
Argued: November 12, 1900. --- Decided: March 25, 1901
Mr. Justice White, with whom concur Mr. Justice Brewer, Mr. Justice Brown, and Mr. Justice Peckham, dissenting:
It will be seem from the opinion of the court that this case differs in no material particular from that of the Freeport Water Co. v. Freeport, just decided, 180 U.S. 587, ante, p. 493, 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 493. Under the sanction of the same statutes considered in the Freeport Case, the defendant in error, the city of Danville, contracted with the plaintiff in error, the water company, for the period authorized by the statute, and stipulated as to the rates to be paid for a public water supply. These rates were adhered to until, under the authority of the statute of the state of Illinois passed in 1891, referred to in the opinion in the Freeport Case, the defendant in error reduced the rates below the contract price. It now asserts in this record that it possessed the power to do so.
For the reasons stated by me for dissenting from the opinion and decree in the Frceport Case, I dissent from the opinion and decree in the present case.

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# Dante Alighieri

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* "Dante Alighieri," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
* "Dante Alighieri," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
* "Dante Alighieri," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

## See also

* Dante (disambiguation)
* Author:Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), the Italian poet and statesman.
# Crazy Jane (1820)/The Birks of Invermay

THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.
The smiling morn, the breathing spring Invite the tuneful birds to sing. And while they warble from each spray Love meets the universal lay, Let us, Amanda timely wise, Like them improve the hour that flies, ​And in soft raptures waste the day, Among the birks of Invermay.
For soon the winter of the year, And age life’s winter, will appear! At this thy living bloom will fade, As that will strip the verdant shade; Our taste of pleasure then is o’er, The feather’d songsters are no more, And when they droop and we decay, Adieu the birks of Invermay.
The lav’rock now and lintie’s sing, The rocks around with echoes ring, The mavis and the blackbird vie, In tuneful strains to glad the day; The woods now bear their summer suits. To mirth all nature now invites; Let us be blythsome light and gay, Amongst the birks of Invermay:
Behold the hills and vales around. With lowing herds and flocks abound The wanton kids and frisking lambs, Gambol and dance about their dams, The busy bees with burning noise, And all the reptile kind rejoice; Let us like them, then sing and play, About the birks of Invermay.
Hark how the waters as they fall, Loudly my love to gladness call; ​The wanton waves sport in the beams, And fishes play throughout the stream. The circling sun does now advance, And all the planets round him dance Let us as joyful be as they Among the birks of Invermay.
# Crazy Jane (1820)/The Marriage Act

THE MARRIAGE ACT.
The fool that is wealthy is sure of a wife; For riches like fig-leaves their nakedness hide: The slave that is poor must starve all his life, In a batchelor's bed without mistress or wife.
In good days of yore they ne'er troubled their heads In settling of jointures or making of deeds But Adam and Eve when they first enter'd course E'en took one another for better for worse.
Thee prithee dear Chloe, ne'er aim to be great, Let love be thy jointure, ne'er mind an estate, You can never be poor, who haves all those charms And I shall be rich when I've you in my arms.
FINIS.
# Cream of Tannahill's Songs (3)

CREAM
ОF
TANNAHILL'S SONGS.
CONTENTS.
GLASGOW, PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.
152.
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# Des Moines v. Des Moines City Railway Company

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United States Supreme Court
214 U.S. 179
Des Moines v. Des Moines City Railway Company
Argued: April 21, 22, 1909. --- Decided: May 17, 1909
Messrs. William H. Baily, William H. Bremner, Howard J. Clark, and R. O. Brennan for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 179-182 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Nathaniel T. Guernsey, William L. Read, George H. Carr, Alonzo C. Parker, and William E. Miller for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 182-183 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Descendant

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* The Descendant (1897), a novel by Ellen Glasgow
* "The Descendant" (1938), a short story by H. P. Lovecraft