Jurisdiction, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United StatesBenjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis |
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... passing , in order that you may know there is such a question . But though the Constitution established the Supreme Court of the United States , it was still necessary that Congress should act to organize that court , and determine what ...
... passing , in order that you may know there is such a question . But though the Constitution established the Supreme Court of the United States , it was still necessary that Congress should act to organize that court , and determine what ...
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... passed out of the control of the State officers during the confusion and trouble in that State ; and the State obtained an injunction , and finally , under a decree of the Supreme Court , obtained the bonds themselves , to a large ...
... passed out of the control of the State officers during the confusion and trouble in that State ; and the State obtained an injunction , and finally , under a decree of the Supreme Court , obtained the bonds themselves , to a large ...
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... passing , though it is not a point of very much importance , that a suit against the Governor of a State , in his official capacity , is deemed by the court to be a suit against the State.1 I should also mention , as a point of more 1 ...
... passing , though it is not a point of very much importance , that a suit against the Governor of a State , in his official capacity , is deemed by the court to be a suit against the State.1 I should also mention , as a point of more 1 ...
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... passing , although this is not a lecture upon the Constitution of the United States , nevertheless the matter is incidentally connected with the subject upon which I am speaking , - I may mention , I say , in passing , that at an early ...
... passing , although this is not a lecture upon the Constitution of the United States , nevertheless the matter is incidentally connected with the subject upon which I am speaking , - I may mention , I say , in passing , that at an early ...
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... passed , on the 24th day of September , 1789 , what has been always since known as the " Judiciary Act , " and perhaps the most im- portant section of that act , certainly one that has had very great influence on the country through the ...
... passed , on the 24th day of September , 1789 , what has been always since known as the " Judiciary Act , " and perhaps the most im- portant section of that act , certainly one that has had very great influence on the country through the ...
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Page 8 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States...
Page 10 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 199 - That in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court.
Page 171 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 9 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Page 84 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party ; or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 218 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Page 146 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 116 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 181 - And the sound and true rule is, that if the contract when made was valid by the laws of the state, as then expounded by all the departments of its government, and administered in its courts of justice, its validity and obligation cannot be impaired by any subsequent act of the legislature of the state or decision of its courts altering the construction of the law.