| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 890 pages
...section are as follows: "And be it further ' enacted, that the laws of the several States, ex' cept where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes ' of the United States shall otherwise require 01 1 provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in ; trials at common law in the courts of the... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 928 pages
...September 24, 1789, above-mentioned, which enacts, section 34, "that the laws of the several Slates, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision, in trials at common low, in the courts of the... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...Judiciary Act of Congress, (1789, ch. 20, § 34,) provides that the laws of the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the...Courts of the United States, in cases where they apply. This provision is held to include those statutes of the several States which prescribe rules of evidence... | |
| Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...judiciary act, to which reference has been made, provides, that " the laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the...regarded as rules of decision, in trials at common law in courts of the United States, in cases where they apply." This provision relates to suits and... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as...decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, where they apply, — the common and statute law of the several states is adopted as... | |
| Bounties, Military - 1854 - 944 pages
...which enacts that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in the courts of the United States where they apply : that is, in dealing with the rights of persons... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...treaties or statutes of the Union otherwise required, should be regarded as rules of decision in trialt at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they applied.* The subsequent act of May 8th, 1792, for regulating processes in the courts of the United... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 612 pages
...they declared by the act Sept. 24, 1789, c. 20, § 34, " That the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 772 pages
...bearing upon the question. The above section provides that " the laws of the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the...require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decisions in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply."... | |
| United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 858 pages
...made to rule the case. This section is in these words : "That the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the...decision, in trials at common law, in the courts of the United State, in cases where they apply." This statute so expressly and evidently embraced the case... | |
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