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Brady v. Daly

1899 United States Supreme Court case

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ19086256 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brady v. Daly, 175 U.S. 148 (1899), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the common law circuit court did have jurisdiction over the copyright infringement case because the statutory damages were not a penalty or forfeiture.

This case is related to Webster v. Daly. They arose from the same set of copyright infringement disputes regarding Under the Gaslight by Augustin Daly.

The United States abolished the circuit court system involved in Webster v. Daly in 1912. The modern analog would be the district courts.

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“Brady v. Daly” enters the record as 1899 United States Supreme Court case. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brady, Daly and United can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brady, Daly and United.
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“Brady v. Daly” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Brady, Daly and United provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19086256. The first chronological checks are 1899 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brady v. Daly” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.