 | United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 páginas
...looking no farther. But the constitution which is the superior law, defines the jurisdiction to be, " between citizens of a state, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects;" and, although it has been decided, (Mason v. The Blaifeau, 2 Cranch, 264,) that the courts of the United... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1857 - 820 páginas
...Similar phraseology is used in the Hth section of the judiciary act, which gives the Circuit Court " exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct " — without... | |
 | 1857 - 802 páginas
...Similar phraseology is used in the llth section of the judiciary act, which gives the Circuit Court " exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct " — without... | |
 | 1857 - 802 páginas
...Similar phraseology is used in the llth section of the judiciary act, which gives the Circuit Court " exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct " — without... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - 1864 - 950 páginas
...general terms that the circuit courts, and the district courts under certain limitations, shall have cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States: and the subsequent acts providing for the punishment of specific offenses, make no distinction... | |
 | Amasa Junius Parker - 1868 - 738 páginas
...1789, which provides that the circuit courts of the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct. Chancellor... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 1170 páginas
...3.) That jurisdiction is conferred in these words: "That," * * * * "said courts" * * * * "shall have cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States." (2 Statutes, 92, act February 13, 1801.) *Act of April 9, 1866, 14 Stat., 27. f " It was said... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1868 - 444 páginas
...The District Courts have, exclusive of the State courts, and concurrently with the Circuit Courts, cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, and committed within their districts, or upon the high seas, where only a moderate corporal... | |
 | 1881 - 572 páginas
...under the laws of the States. The judiciary act of 1789 provided, section 11: "That the Circuit Courts shall have * * * exclusive cognizance of all crimes...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... | |
 | 1885 - 550 páginas
...Circuit Court had jurisdiction under the eleventh section of the judiciary act, giving Circuit Courts " exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable...under the authority of the United States," except where that act " otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct, and concurrent... | |
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... a controversy between citizens of different States, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid; or a controversy between citizens of the same State, claiming lands under grants of different... 
