Sixth Circuit HOW DID BUCHANAN V. WARLEY (1917) AND CORRIGAN V. BUCKLEY (1926) IMPACT HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES? This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. The defendants then prayed an appeal to this Court on the ground that such review was authorized under the provisions of section 250 of the Judicial Code (Comp. The Supreme Courts decision on Corrigan v. Buckley is one of landmark Supreme Court cases, and for good reason. New Mexico It is obvious that none of these Amendments prohibited private individuals from entering into contracts respecting the control and disposition of their own property; and there is no color whatever for the contention that they rendered the indenture void. Objectives Students will interpret the Buchanan v. Warley and Corrigan v. Buckley decisions and their consequences. District Court And the prohibitions of the Fourteenth Amendment "have reference to state action exclusively, and not to any action of private individuals." Appeal from 55 App.D.C. 30; 299 Fed. In his dissent, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger argued that limiting contributions infringed on First Amendment freedoms. The Court dismissed Fifth and fourteenth amendment claims because they referred to government and(read more about Constitutional law entries here). 229; Curry v. District of Columbia, 14 App.D.C. Ohio The case made by the bill is this: The parties are citizens of the United States, residing in the District. Statement of the Case. Justice Sanford furthermore denied, without elaboration, that judicial enforcement of the restrictive covenant was tantamount to government action depriving persons of liberty and property without due process of law. 1727 on S Street. Sanford's statement was regarded in the next two decades as having settled the question whether judicial enforcement of racial covenants was state action under the Fourteenth Amendment. And the defendants having elected to stand on their motions, a final decree was entered enjoining them as prayed in the bill. This is a suit in equity brought by John J. Buckley in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against Irene H. Corrigan and Helen Curits, to enjoin the conveyance of certain real estate from one to the other of the defendants. 26 Ch. [6] That led to the spread of covenants throughout the DC area. 2. 65. They added in several amendments which created strict limitations on campaign contributions and expenditures. Make your practice more effective and efficient with Casetexts legal research suite. . The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions . Seventh Circuit Id. The defendant Curtis demanded that this contract of sale be carried out, and, despite the protest of other parties to the indenture, the defendant Corrigan had stated that she would convey the lot to the defendant Curtis. At this time, the Supreme Courts jurisdiction over cases from the District of Columbia was limited to matters raising substantial federal claims. 68; Smoot v. Heyl, 227 U.S. 518; Block v. Hirsh, 256 U.S. 135; Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525; District of Columbia v. Brooke, 214 U.S. 138; Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 U.S. 258; Talbot v. Silver Bow County, 139 U.S. 444. Individual invasion of individual rights is not the subject-matter of the Amendment." Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1, 16, 18. Pennsylvania [2] Subsequently, in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) the court reconsidered such covenants and found that racially restrictive covenants are unenforceable. The mere assertion that the case is one involving the construction or application of the Constitution, and in which the construction of federal laws is drawn in question, does not, however, authorize this Court to entertain the appeal, and it is our duty to decline jurisdiction if the record does not present such a constitutional or statutory question substantial in character and properly raised below. Virginia v. Rives, 100 U.S. 313, 318; United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629, 639. P. 271 U. S. 330. Second Circuit United States Housing Authority (USHA) Used to improve housing conditions for low income families in 1937. Ninth Circuit This ruling set the precedent upholding racially restrictive . It results that, in the absence of any substantial constitutional or statutory question giving us jurisdiction of this appeal under the provisions of 250 of the Judicial Code, we cannot determine upon the merits the contentions earnestly pressed by the defendants in this Court that the indenture is not only void because contrary to public policy, but is also of such a discriminatory character that a court of equity will not lend its aid by enforcing the specific performance of the covenant. Id. 88; Schermerhorn v. Negus, 1 Denio 148; Johnson v. Preston, 226 Ill. 447; Anderson v. Carey, 36 Ohio St. 506; Barnard v. Bailey, 2 Harr. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. APPEAL from a decree of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which affirmed a decree of the Supreme Court of the District in favor of Buckley in a suit to enjoin the defendant Corrigan from selling a lot. This is a suit in equity brought by John J. Buckley in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against Irene H. Corrigan and Helen Curtis, to enjoin the conveyance of certain real estate from one to the other of the defendants. Rhode Island In 1921, thirty white persons, including the plaintiff and the defendant Corrigan, owning twenty-five parcels of land, improved by dwelling houses, situated on Street, between 18th and New Hampshire avenue, in the City of Washington, executed an indenture, duly recorded, in which they recited that for their mutual benefit and the best interests of the neighborhood comprising these properties, they mutually covenanted and agreed that no part of these properties should ever be used or occupied by, or sold, leased or given to, any person of the negro race or blood; and that this covenant should run with the land and bind their respective heirs and assigns for twenty-one years from and after its date. This is a suit in equity brought by John J. Buckley in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against Irene H. Corrigan and Helen Curits, to enjoin the conveyance of certain real estate from one to the other of the defendants. Curtis and Corrigan "moved to dismiss the bill on the ground that the covenant deprived the negro of property without due process of law, abridged the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, and denied him the equal protection of the law. . South Dakota The plaintiffs were denied both requests and they appealed. P. 331. 290. Assuming that this contention drew in question the "construction" of these statutes, as distinguished from their "application," it is obvious, upon their face that, while they provide, inter alia, that all persons and citizens shall have equal right with white citizens to make contracts and acquire property, they, like the Constitutional Amendment under whose sanction they were enacted, do not in any manner prohibit or invalidate contracts entered into by private individuals in respect to the control and disposition of their own property. 104 Argued January 8, 1926 Decided May 24, 1926 271 U.S. 323 Syllabus 1. "[5] The ruling meant that the purchase that Curtis had made on the house was now void and that the covenant was upheld. Mere error of a court, if any there be, in a judgment entered after a full hearing, does not constitute a denial of due process of law. 2. Accessed January 24, 2016. Central Land Co. v. Laidley, 159 U. S. 103, 112, 16 S. Ct. 80, 40 L. Ed. 271 U.S. 323 (1926), argued 8 Jan. 1926, decided 24 May 1926 by vote of 9 to 0; Sanford for the Court. Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3, 109 U. S. 11. The case made by the bill is this: the parties are citizens of the United States, residing in the District. "[2] Once again, the court sided with Buckley. Massachusetts P. 329. The Supreme Court ruling was a decision on four covenant cases from Washington, DC, Detroit, MI, and the Shelley case from St. Louis, MO. You're all set! New York Covenant Prohibiting Sale of Property to Negro Is Constitutional.". But the legacy of several decades of enforcement of these covenants meant that residential segregation was well entrenched in most major American cities, a pattern that has never been undone. See Delmar Jockey Club v. Missouri, supra, 335 (28 S. Ct. 732). Accessed January 24, 2016. We therefore conclude that neither the constitutional nor statutory questions relied on as grounds for the appeal to this Court have any substantial quality or color of merit, or afford any jurisdictional basis for the appeal. Kansas The case made by the bill is this: The parties are citizens . Assuming that such a contention, if of a substantial character, might have constituted ground for an appeal under paragraph 3 of the Code provision, it was not raised by the petition for the appeal or by any assignment of error, either in the court of appeals or in this Court, and it likewise is lacking is substance. This contention is entirely lacking in substance or color of merit. The defendant Corrigan moved to dismiss the bill on the grounds that the 'indenture or covenant made the basis of said bill' is (1) 'void in that the same is contrary to and in violation of the Constitution of the United States,' and (2) 'is void in that the same is contrary to public policy.' v. BUCKLEY. Storey, of Boston, Mass., James A. Cobb and Henry E. Davis, both of Washington, D. C., William H. Lewis, of Boston, Mass., and James P. Schick, of Washington, D. C. (Messrs. Arthur B. Spingarn and Herbert K. Stockton, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellants. Appeal from a decree of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, which affirmed a decree of the Supreme Court of the District in favor of Buckley in a suit to enjoin the defendant Corrigan from selling a lot. Buckley stopped Helen Curtis from moving into No. Texas In 1917, in Buchanan v. Warley, the Court found that municipal ordinances requiring residential segregation violated the fourteenth amendment, relying in significant measure on the fact that it was the government that had mandated the segregation. The precedent that racial exclusion in terms of housing was acceptable lasted for a few decades before the issue was reconsidered by the judicial system. Another tactic, exclusionary zoning, was not explicitly racial in description but maintained de facto racial segregation and was upheld in Euclid v. Ambler (1926). 8. 30; 299 F. 899; dismissed. And while it was further urged in this Court that the decrees of the courts below in themselves deprived the defendants of their liberty and property without due process of law, in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, this contention likewise cannot serve as a jurisdictional basis for the appeal. Div. Arizona Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60; Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303; Virginia v. Rives, 100 U.S. 313; United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629; Scott v. McNeal, 154 U.S. 34; Chicago, B. Q.R.R. 5 Not by any of these Amendments, nor by 1977-1979 Rev.Stats., are private lot owners prohibited from entering into twenty-one year mutual covenants not to sell to any person of negro blood or race. They remained legal and effective for another twenty years until Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968. According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 275 CORRIGAN v. BUCKLEY 271 U.S. 323 (1926) Reviewing a restrictive covenant case from the district of columbia, the Supreme Court unanimously held that it presented no substantial constitutional question. [2] Some blacks who managed to sneak past the covenants and the occasionally-racist sellers, and to move into a home would often lead to a mass exodus of whites to other areas. in Washington to the defendant Curtis, in violation of an indenture entered into by Buckley, Corrigan, and other landowners whereby they mutually covenanted and bound themselves, their heirs and assigns, for twenty-one years, not to sell to any person of negro race or blood. Vose, Clement E. Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases. Corrigan vs buckley In 1922 it was a case involving restricted covenants based on race and the Supreme Court dismisses the case validating the use of restrictive covenants. Both of these motions to dismiss were overruled, with leave to answer. [4] That caused a very quick migration of the white community out of the neighborhood. 865; Delmar Jockey Club v. Missouri, 210 U. S. 324, 335, 28 S. Ct. 732, 52 L. Ed. https://www.thoughtco.com/buckley-v-valeo-4777711 (accessed March 2, 2023). De Peyster v. Michael, 6 N.Y. 497; Potter v. Couch, 141 U.S. 296; Manierre v. Welling, 32 R.I. 104; Mandlebaum v. McDonell, 29 Mich. 79; In re Rosher, L.R. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court in effect affirmed this outcome by dismissing the suit for lack of jurisdiction. in Constitutional Law Outline (United States), Case Law in the legal Encyclopedia of the United States, Corrigan v. Buckley in the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, Delano Farms Co. V. California Table Grape Commission. Vermont This was a tremendous victory for the NAACP and was seen as the end of such segregation. Central Land Co. v. Laidley, 159 U. S. 103, 159 U. S. 112; Jones v. Buffalo Creek Coal Co., 245 U. S. 328, 245 U. S. 329. MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court. Hansberry v. Lee Restrictive covenants in Chicago. Both of these motions to dismiss were overruled, with leave to answer. 899; dismissed. And the defendants having elected to stand on their motions, a final decree was entered enjoining them as prayed in the bill. 200, decided April 12, 1926. This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 00:28. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/buckley-v-valeo-4777711. The agreements were instituted on a private scale and so had never had to face justification from the courts. The decision became known for tying campaign donations and expenditures to Freedom of Speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Thirteenth Amendment denouncing slavery and involuntary servitude, that is, a condition of enforced compulsory service of one to another does not in other matters protect the individual rights of persons of the negro race. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Limited individual or group contributions to political candidates to $1,000; contributions by a, Limited individual or group expenditures to $1,000 per candidate per election. That did not immediately stop people from using them. In the meantime, the problem of Negro housing There is no color for the contention that they rendered the indenture void; nor was it claimed in this Court that they had, in and of themselves, any such effect. Hodges v. United States, 203 U. S. 1, 16, 18, 27 S. Ct. 6, 51 L. Ed. 186; Smith v. Clark, 10 Md. The Fifth Amendment "is a limitation only upon the powers of the General government," Talton v. Mayes, 163 U. S. 376, 163 U. S. 382, and is not directed against the action of individuals. 186; McCullough v. Gilmore, 11 Pa. 370; Bennett v. Chapin, 77 Mich. 527; Attwater v. Attwater, 18 Beav. The Thirteenth Amendment denouncing slavery and involuntary servitude, that is, a condition of enforced compulsory service of one to another, does not in other matters protect the individual rights of persons of the negro race. The white people still living in those houses feared that their property values would go down dramatically unless they sold right away; they would thus move out to the suburbs as quickly as possible. The Corrigan case legitimized racially restrictive covenants and gave encouragement to white property owners to use such covenants to retain the racial integrity of residential neighborhoods. The Court determined that the appellants had presented no such claims and hence dismissed the appeal for want of jurisdiction. In reaching that conclusion, the Court concluded that both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments limited only the action of the government, not private parties, and that the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude, had no application to the sale of real estate. Ct. 521, the court, referring to the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, said: "It is obvious that none of these Amendments prohibited private individuals from entering into contracts respecting the control and disposition of their own property. It is obvious that none of these amendments prohibited private individuals from entering into contracts respecting the control and disposition of their own property; and there is no color whatever for the contention that they rendered the indenture void. One year earlier, the majority of the block's white residents, including Corrigan, had signed an agreement, or covenant, that they would not sell or . This appeal was allowed, in June, 1924. Attorneys representing those opposing the regulations argued that Congress had disregarded the importance of campaign contributions as a form of speech. [3] In 1922, Irene Corrigan broke the restrictions put in place by the covenant. And under well settled rules, jurisdiction is wanting if such questions are so unsubstantial as to be plainly without color of merit and frivolous. 544; Stoutenburgh v. Frazier, 16 App.D.C. By upholding the dismissal of the case, the Supreme Court set the precedent that racially exclusive covenants were acceptable and not prohibited by law. Virgin Islands the Constitution, statutes, and decisions, with respect to the segregation of colored persons and the fact that the covenant sued upon is in restraint of alienation, we con- tend that such a contract as that . This Court has no jurisdiction of an appeal from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia founded on alleged constitutional questions so unsubstantial as to be plainly without color of merit and frivolous. 1. Corrigan v. Buckley Corrigan v. Buckley 271 U.S. 323 (1926) United States Constitution. P. 330. They have behind them the sovereign power. You can explore additional available newsletters here. The defendant Corrigan moved to dismiss the bill on the grounds that the "indenture or covenant made the basis of said bill" is (1) "void in that the same is contrary to and in violation of the Constitution of the United States," and (2) "is void in that the same is contrary to public policy." In Buckley v. Valeo (1976) the United States Supreme Court held that several key provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act were unconstitutional. The high court's subsequent dismissal of Corrigan v. Buckley in 1926 . Assuming that this contention drew in question the "construction" of these statutes, as distinguished from their "application," it is obvious, upon their face, that while they provide, inter alia, that all persons and citizens shall have equal right with white citizens to make contracts and acquire property, they, like the Constitutional Amendment under whose sanction they were enacted, do not in any manner prohibit or invalidate contracts entered into by private individuals in respect to the control and disposition of their own property. What benefits did the FHA provide to white people that black families and other color could not take advantage of? Eleventh Circuit 680; Queensboro Land Co. v. Cazeaux, 136 La. 52 Wash. Law Rep. 402. For example, by the 1940s, eighty-five percent of the housing in Detroit and eighty percent of the housing in Chicago was encumbered by a racially restrictive covenant. Definition and Examples, School Prayer: Separation of Church and State. This was affirmed, on appeal, by the Court of Appeals of the District. Mr. James S. Easby-Smith, with whom Messrs. David A. Pine and Francis W. Hill, Jr., were on the brief, for appellee. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Appeals Court North Dakota Iowa The Corrigan case involved a racially restrictive covenant in the District of Columbia. The contention that such an indenture is void as against public policy does not involve the construction or application of the Constitution or draw in question the construction of the above sections of the Revised Statutes; and therefore affords no basis for an appeal to this Court under 250, Judicial Code, from a decree of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. The Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause prevents the government from depriving someone of fundamentals liberties without due process of law. [4] Both courts used the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which legalized segregation if the separate races had equal facilities, to state their case. Corrigan v. Buckley as settling all the constitutional issues involved. Individual invasion of individual rights is not the subject-matter of the Amendment.' Buchanan v. Warley (1917) barred the government from enforcing segregation through explicitly racial zoning provisions. Corrigan v. Buckley resulted from an infringement upon a covenant. . The size of the donation gives at most a "rough index of the contributor's support for the candidate." Id. Mere error of a court in a judgment entered after full hearing does not constitute a denial of due process of law. P. 330. Under the pleadings in the present case the only constitutional question involved was that arising under the assertions in the motions to dismiss that the indenture or covenant which is the basis of the hill, is "void" in that it is contrary to and forbidden by the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. In that ruling, the Court found that corporations could contribute to campaigns using money from their general treasuries. In rendering these decrees, the courts which have pronounced them have functioned as the law-making power. P. 271 U. S. 329. Messrs. Louis Marshall, of New York City, Moorfield. Judicial Center The Shelley decision did not stop . South Carolina P. 271 U. S. 329. 7. Justia Annotations is a forum for attorneys to summarize, comment on, and analyze case law published on our site. [1] This ruling set the precedent upholding racially restrictive covenants in Washington; soon after this ruling, racially restrictive covenants flourished around the nation. 359, 30 F.2d 983, certiorari, (b) The question whether purely private discrimination unaided by any governmental action violates 1982, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to actions of the federal government, because "the prohibitions of the Fourteenth Amendment have reference to State action exclusively. Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), that decision did not so much dissolve an "iron ring" confining the city's black neighborhoods as much as it simply dissipated the legal clouds shadowing property already falling into black hands as a booming postwar housing market . This case involved a restrictive covenant formed by white property owners in the District of Columbia in 1921 to prevent the sale of property to black citizens. According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 275 CORRIGAN v.BUCKLEY 271 U.S. 323 (1926) Reviewing a restrictive covenant case from the district of columbia, the Supreme Court unanimously held that it presented no substantial constitutional question. "It is state action of a particular character that is prohibited. These are questions involving a consideration of rules not expressed in any constitutional or statutory provision, but claimed to be a part of the common or general law in force in the District of Columbia; and, plainly, they may not be reviewed under this appeal unless jurisdiction of the case is otherwise acquired. D. C. 30, 299 F. 899. We therefore conclude that neither the constitutional nor statutory questions relied on as grounds for the appeal to this Court have any substantial quality or color of merit, or afford any jurisdictional basis for the appeal. The court ruled that covenants were unenforceable by the government. The link was not copied. It made it significantly harder for black and other non-white families to buy or mortgage a home. McGovney, D. O., Racial Residential Segregation by State Court Enforcement of Restrictive Agreements, Covenants or Conditions in Deeds is Unconstitutional, California Law Review 33 (1945): 539. Michigan Georgia "Buckley v. Valeo: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact." Virginia v. Rives, 100 U. S. 313, 318, 25 L. Ed. And the prohibitions of the Fourteenth Amendment "have reference to state action exclusively, and not to any action of private individuals." The Court rejected NAACP arguments about the 14th Amendment in the 1926 Corrigan v. Buckley case based on a Washington DC restrictive covenant and refused to revisit the ruling until the 1940s. It was only at Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) that the Supreme Court determined that it was unconstitutional for the legal system to enforce covenants. There is no color for the contention that they rendered the indenture void; nor was it claimed in this Court that they had, in and of themselves, any such effect. A contention, to constitute ground for appeal, should be raised by the petition for appeal and assignment of errors. 56; Williams v. Jones, 2 Swan (Tenn.) 620; Brothers v. McCurdy, 36 Pa. 407. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court. Guam The claim that the defendants drew in question the "construction" of 1977, 1978 and 1979 of the Revised Statutes, is equally unsubstantial. The plaintiff and the defendant Corrigan are white persons, and the defendant Curtis is a person of the negro race. Colorado By 1934, the neighborhood had an 86% nonwhite population. In Corrigan v. Buckley, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a legal challenge to racially restrictive covenants and thereby made a significant contribution to the upsurge in residential segregation that took place in Americas cities during the first half of the twentieth century. Not by any of these Amendments, nor by 1977-1979 Rev. Buckley v. Valeo laid the groundwork for future Supreme Court cases regarding campaign finances. Students will examine the impact of racial covenants and exclusionary practices in the housing market. [Argument of Counsel from pages 324-326 intentionally omitted]. ThoughtCo, Feb. 17, 2021, thoughtco.com/buckley-v-valeo-4777711. The only question raised as to these statutes under the pleadings was the assertion in the motion interposed by the defendant Curtis, that the indenture is void in that it is forbidden by the laws enacted in aid and under the sanction of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The covenant is not ancillary to the main purpose of a valid contract and therefore is an unlawful restraint. The use of covenants spread rapidly until almost entire neighborhoods were promised to be racially homogeneous. Both of these motions to dismiss were overruled, with leave to answer. The only question raised as to these statutes under the pleadings was the. Third Circuit Corrigan v. Buckley No. Hodges v. United States, 203 U. S. 1, 203 U. S. 16-18. 'It is State action of a particular character that is prohibited. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Even areas like Stuyvesant. Pretrial Services Virginia This judgment denied any procedural grounds for trying to challenge racially restrictive covenants and upheld the legal right of property owners to implement these prejudiced agreements. 1080; Binderup v. Pathe Exchange, 263 U. S. 291, 305, 44 S. Ct. 96, 68 L. Ed. The bill alleged that this would cause irreparable injury to the plaintiff and the other parties to the indenture, and that the plaintiff, having no adequate remedy at law, was entitled to have the covenant of the defendant Corrigan specifically enforced in equity by an injunction preventing the defendants from carrying the contract of sale into effect; and prayed, in substance, that the defendant Corrigan be enjoined during twenty-one years from the date of the indenture, from conveying the lot to the defendant Curtis, and that the defendant Curtis be enjoined from taking title to the lot during such period, and from using or occupying it. Hundreds of lots signed onto petition covenants in 1927, the year after Corrigan v. Buckley. Supreme Court This was affirmed, on appeal, by the court of appeals of the District. P. 271 U. S. 331. What is the difference between "de facto" and de jute" segregation and where did each exist? sell her a certain lot, with dwelling house, included within the terms of the indenture, and the defendant Curtis, although knowing of the existence and terms of the indenture, agreed to purchase it. The DC Court of Appeals also sided with Buckley and stated that since blacks had the ability to exclude others from their neighborhoods in which they lived, it did not discriminate against them and so did not violate Curtis's civil rights. Sign up for our free summaries and get the latest delivered directly to you. Mere error of a court, if any there be, in a judgment entered after a full hearing does not constitute a denial of due process of law. 186, was disapproved. Virginia v. Rives, 100 U. S. 313, 100 U. S. 318; United States v. Harris, 106 U. S. 629, 106 U. S. 639. P. 271 U. S. 331. 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