 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1880 - 362 pages
...jurisdiction of almost all; that by the judiciary act the Circuit Courts have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where that or another statute of the United States otherwise provides ; that in order to ascertain what are... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1148 pages
...itself for the purposes for which it was created, its courts were invested with exclusive jurisdiction "of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States." Rev. St. § 711 [US Comp. St. 1901, P- 577]It is clearly enough within the power of the federal... | |
 | George N. Lamphere - Executive departments - 1880 - 310 pages
...year each, made up of fees. JURISDICTION. The District Courts have jurisdiction as follows: First. Of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the punishment of which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 1900 pages
...provided, section 11, — " That the circuit courts shall have * * * exclusive cognizance of all critncs and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct. * * * " 1 St.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...the cases and proceedings following, shall be exclusive of the courts of the several States : — 1 . Of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States ; 2. Of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred under the laws of the United States... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1088 pages
...United States it Is provided: "Sec. 563. The district courts shall have jurisdiction as follows: First act In each they have States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the punishment of which... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1883 - 870 pages
...and proceedings hereinafter mentioned, shall be exclusive of the courts of the several states. First. Of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States. Second. Of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred under the laws of the United States.... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 636 pages
...an information is not provided for. By subdivision 20 of § 639 of the Revised Statutes, cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States is given to the Circuit Courts. The offence in the present case is one which can be prosecuted... | |
 | Erastus Thatcher - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 640 pages
...as the legislature has expressly declared, that the Circuit Court shall have " exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences, cognizable under the authority of the United States," I think the indictment ought to be sustained. PETERS, Justice, concurred. IREDELL, Justice,... | |
 | James Kent, Charles M. Barnes - Law - 1884 - 882 pages
...jurisdiction generally was not of itself sufficient to vest an exclusive jurisdiction. The Judiciary Act grants exclusive jurisdiction to the circuit courts...offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, (a) In Wadleigh v. Veazic, 3 Sumner, 165, in the Circuit Court of the United States, in a writ... | |
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And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States... 
