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In the cases of Villabolos v. United States, and United States v. Curry, decided at the December Term, 1847, and especially in the latter case, it was held, on full consideration, that whether a case was attempted to be brought to this court by writ of error, or appeal, the record must be filed before the end of the te... | 1. If if ii apparent from the record that this court has not acquired jurisdiction of a case for want of proper appeal or writ of error, it will be dismissed, although neither party ask it. 2. An appeal or writ of error which does not bring to this court a transcript of the record before the expiration of the term to w... |
The findings of fact made by the circuit court in its final decree are, in our opinion, amply sustained by the evidence. These findings, and other facts not disputed, establish prima facie the justice and equity of the decree. Upon the facts of the case, the decree of the court is simply to this effect, that where thre... | Where three persons form a partnership, and agree to bear the losses and share the profits of the partnership venture in proportion to their contribution to its capital, and two of the partners furnish all the money and do all the work, they are entitled to be repaid their advances out of its assets, before payment of ... |
These two cases are appeals from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which were heard and will be decided together. The Pynchon National Bank of Springfield, Mass., with a capital stock of $200,000, divided into 2,000 shares of $100 each, became insolvent and in June, 1901, the Comptroller of the Curren... | Under the National Banking Act the Comptroller has discretionary power to withdraw an assessment on shareholders before it is paid, or when partly paid. Upon the evidence, held, that certain sums paid by savings banks to the receiver of a national bank in which they held shares were intended to be applied against their... |
In this case, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated the decision of a postconviction court, which had granted relief to a prisoner convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. One of the justices on the State Supreme Court had been the district attorney who gave his official approval to seek the death p... | Petitioner Williams was convicted of the 1984 murder of Amos Norwood and sentenced to death. During the trial, the then-district attorney of Philadelphia, Ronald Castille, approved the trial prosecutor’s request to seek the death penalty against Williams. Over the next 26 years, Williams’s conviction and sentence were ... |
'The plaintiff in error insists that the map of its line of road was filed in 1859. The court of original jurisdiction finds that, up to the time of the trial in October, 1878, a period of nearly twenty years, no selection of these lands had ever been made by that company, or anyone for it. Was there a vested right in ... | The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company took no title to lands within the indemnity limits of its grant until the deficiency in the place limits had been ascertained, and the company had exercised its right of selection. The Secretary of the Interior had no authority, upon the filing of a plat in the office of the Co... |
Appellant challenges the validity of the Act of the Alaska Legislature approved May 1, 1919 (Session Laws 1919, c. 29), which imposes upon each male person, with certain exceptions, within the territory or the waters thereof an annual poll tax of $5 to be used for school purposes; and also that portion of the Act of th... | 1. An annual poll tax, and an annual license imposed only on nonresident fishermen within Alaska, are within the power delegated to the Alaska legislature by the Organic Act. P. 514. 2. These taxes, as applied to a citizen of California who went to Alaska to engage in the business of fishing and remained there, so enga... |
Introduction Congress facilitated the development of railroads, especially railroads in the West, throughvarious forms of federal assistance. Primary among this assistance was the granting of rights of wayacross the public lands. Not all of these grants were the same, but some arguably contemplated aretained interest i... | During the drive to settle the western portion of the United States, Congress sought toencourage the expansion of railroads, at first through generous grants of rights of way and lands tothe great transcontinental railroads between 1862 and 1871, and later through the enactment of ageneral right of way statute. The 187... |
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"Motion is made to dismiss this case upon the ground that no Federal question is involved; or if the(...TRUNCATED) | "Where the title claimed by the State of Iowa to land formerly the bed of a lake rested solely upon (...TRUNCATED) |
"The offense denounced by section 5209 of the Revised Statutes is punishable by imprisonment not les(...TRUNCATED) | "Circuit Courts of Appeals have no jurisdiction over the judgments of territorial courts in capital (...TRUNCATED) |
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LegalSumm: A Comprehensive Legal Document Summarization Dataset
LegalSumm is a merged dataset combining three prominent legal document collections (GovReport, BillSum, and CaseSumm) to create a comprehensive resource for training and evaluating legal text summarisation models.
Dataset Composition
Total samples: 69,992 document-summary pairs
Sources:
- GovReport: 19,466 U.S. government reports (27.8%)
- BillSum: 23,455 U.S. Congressional bills (33.5%)
- CaseSumm: 27,071 U.S. Supreme Court opinions (38.7%)
Features
- text: Original legal document (full text)
- summary: Human-written summary of the document
Preprocessing
Documents have been standardized to ensure consistent formatting across different legal document types.
All samples have been randomly shuffled and split into training (80%), validation (10%), and test (10%) sets.
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