United States v. 1960 Bags of Coffee
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for .the district of Maryland, which restored a quantity of coffee that had been seized and libelled for violating the non-intercourse act of March 1st, 1809, § 4, 5. (2 U. S. Stat. 529.) The claimants in the court below alleged, by way of plea, that the coffee was regularly entered and the duties *secured according to law, after pog9 which, they beeame the purchasers for valuable consideration.
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This was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for .the district of Maryland, which restored a quantity of coffee that had been seized and libelled for violating the non-intercourse act of March 1st, 1809, § 4, 5. (2 U. S. Stat. 529.) The claimants in the court below alleged, by way of plea, that the coffee was regularly entered and the duties *secured according to law, after pog9 which, they beeame the purchasers for valuable consideration. They L also denied that it was imported contrary to law. The United States demurred to that part of the plea which states the purchase, &c.,…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
But from the decision which the court has at length come to, its merits are brought within a vex-y limited compass.
We are of opinion, that the question rests altogether on the wox-ding of *, 05-i the act of congress : by which it is *expressly declared, that the ' J forfeiture shall take place, upon the commission of the offence. If the phraseology wex-e such as, in the opinion of the majox-ity of the court, to admit of doubt, it would then be proper to resort to analogy, and the doctrine of forfeiture at common law, to assist the mind in coming to a conclusion. But from the view in which the…
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