 | United States - 1796
...ftates, or the circuit courts, as the cafe may be, of all caufes where an alien fues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the jurifiiiaion United States. And fhall alfo have cognizance, concurrent as lafl mentioned, of all fuits... | |
 | William Graydon - 1803 - 639 páginas
...states, or the circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the united States. And shall also have cognizance, concurrent as last mentioned, of all suits at common law where... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1814
...states, or the circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. They also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the states, of all suits at common... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1824
...courts, or the circuit courts, as the case may be, " of all causes where an alien sues for a tort, only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States;" and "of all suits at common law, where the United States sue," to the amount of one hundred... | |
 | Elijah Paine - 1830
...United States sues under the authority of an act of congress: 3. Where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States: 4. Where consuls and vice consuls are defendants : And, 5. For the repeal of letters patent... | |
 | Peter Force - 1831
...States, or the circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States And also have cognizance, concurrent as last mentioned, of all suits a common law, where the... | |
 | Gray and Bowen - 1831
...states, or their circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States. They also have cognizance, concurrent as last-mentioned, of all suits at common law, where... | |
 | Peter Force - 1833 - 336 páginas
...States, or the 'irruit Court, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien «ue» or a tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the U'-it' States. And also have cognizance, concurrent, as last mentioned, of II suits at common law,... | |
 | Samuel Howe - 1834 - 599 páginas
...states, or the Circuit Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States ; and of all suits at common law, where the United States sue and the matter in dispute amounts,... | |
| |
The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. 
