This is a list of cases reported in volume 124 of ''
United States Reports'', decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States in 1888.
Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 124 U.S.
The Supreme Court is established by
Article III, Section 1 of the
Constitution of the United States
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, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to
Congress
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to set the number of justices. Under the
Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices).
Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to
seven,
nine
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9 or nine may also refer to:
Dates
* AD 9, the ninth year of the AD era
* 9 BC, the ninth year before the AD era
* 9, numerical symbol for the month of September
Places
* Nine, Portugal, a parish in the ...
,
ten, and back to
nine
9 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
9 or nine may also refer to:
Dates
* AD 9, the ninth year of the AD era
* 9 BC, the ninth year before the AD era
* 9, numerical symbol for the month of September
Places
* Nine, Portugal, a parish in the ...
justices (always including one chief justice).
When the cases in volume 124 U.S. were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
Citation style
Under the
Judiciary Act of 1789 the federal court structure at the time comprised District Courts, which had general trial jurisdiction; Circuit Courts, which had mixed trial and appellate (from the US District Courts) jurisdiction; and the United States Supreme Court, which had appellate jurisdiction over the federal District and Circuit courts—and for certain issues over state courts. The Supreme Court also had limited
original jurisdiction
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India
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(''i.e.,'' in which cases could be filed directly with the Supreme Court without first having been heard by a lower federal or state court). There were one or more federal District Courts and/or Circuit Courts in each state, territory, or other geographical region.
Bluebook
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citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.
* "C.C.D." = United States Circuit Court for the District of . . .
** ''e.g.,''"C.C.D.N.J." = United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
* "D." = United States District Court for the District of . . .
** ''e.g.,''"D. Mass." =
* "E." = Eastern; "M." = Middle; "N." = Northern; "S." = Southern; "W." = Western
** ''e.g.,''"C.C.S.D.N.Y." = United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
** ''e.g.,''"M.D. Ala." =
* "Ct. Cl." =
United States Court of Claims
* The abbreviation of a state's name alone indicates the highest appellate court in that state's judiciary at the time.
** ''e.g.,''"Pa." =
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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** ''e.g.,''"Me." =
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
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List of cases in volume 124 U.S.
Notes and references
External links
Case reports in volume 124 from Library of Congress
Case reports in volume 124 from Court Listener
Case reports in volume 124 from the Caselaw Access Project of
Harvard Law School
Case reports in volume 124 from Google Scholar
Case reports in volume 124 from Justia
Case reports in volume 124 from Open Jurist
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