| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 890 pages
...— between citizens of different States, and foreign States, citizens or subjects. It was enacted that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes ot the United States shall otherwise require, shall be regarded as the rules of decision in trials... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 928 pages
...that now under consideration. That act does, indeed, provide: "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 rules of decision in trials at common law, in ' the courts of the United... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 774 pages
...which that practice has prevailed. 751 APPENDIX. Trial of Aaron Bnrr. The words of that section are : " That the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties. o> statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...admissions of fact against himself.2 1 The Judiciary Act of Congress, (1789, ch. 20, § 34,) provides that the laws of the several States, except where...regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law, in the Courts of the United States, in cases where they apply. This provision is held to include... | |
| Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...United States have made ample provision. The judiciary act, to which reference has been made, provides, that " the laws of the several states, except where...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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 pages
...jurisdiction must arise in some of the States, they declared by the act Sept. 24, 1789, c. 20, $ 34, " That the laws of the several States, except where...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... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...present, we can only remark, that as to the common law, — the 34th section of the Judiciary Act having provided that the laws of the several states, except...where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...founded on paramount necessity, and proclaimed by a military chief. In the case of Captain McKcnzie, laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties or statutes of the Union otherwise required, should be regarded as rules of decision in trialt at common law in the courts... | |
| Bounties, Military - 1854 - 944 pages
...application of the provision of the act of Congress of September 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 34, 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... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 772 pages
...States, and that the process act of 1828 has no bearing upon the question. The above section provides that " the laws of the several States, except where...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."... | |
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