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Steel v Houghton (1788) 1 H Bl 51; 126 ER 32, [1] also known as the Great Gleaning Case, is a landmark judgment in English law by the House of Lords that is considered to mark the modern legal understanding of private property rights.
From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9780872494084. Maier, Pauline (2010). Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451606362. Middlekauff, Robert (2005). The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2nd ed.).
It also created the offices of U.S. Marshal, Deputy Marshal, and District Attorney in each federal judicial district. [5] The Compromise of 1790 located the national capital in a district to be defined in the South (the District of Columbia), and enabled the federal assumption of state debts.
May 23 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. state (see History of South Carolina). June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state (see History of New Hampshire), the Constitution goes into effect.
May 14 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin arriving to write a new Constitution for the United States.; May 25 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Following is a list of justices of the Dakota Territorial Supreme Court, this was that existed. When the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota, the court was abolished by operation of law, and its function was taken over by the North Dakota Supreme Court and the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Howe, Jenika. "Power in the pasture: Energy and the history of ranching in western South Dakota" (Diss. Colorado State University, 2012) online; Karolevitz, Robert F. Challenge: The South Dakota Story (Brevet Press, 1975) Kumlien, Wendell Frichiof, and Howard M. Sauer. "Population Migration To and from South Dakota: 1930–1940." (1940) online.
January 7 – John Catron, lawyer and jurist (died 1865) January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (died 1844) January 24 – Walter Forward, lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (died 1852)