 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 732 pagini
...9. That the District Courts [of the United States] shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." These provisions of organic and Federal statutory law being in force, an act of the legislature... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 pagini
...: I. The Judiciary Act of 1789 invests the Federal District Courts with exclusive cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy, when the common law is competent to give it. This act was amended in 1845, and extended the admiralty... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1869 - 950 pagini
...common-law courts. Under the act of 1789,2 the district courts have " exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." Assuming this act to be constitutional, it seems very clear that a suit in rem is not... | |
 | 1869 - 820 pagini
...provides that the District Courts of the United States shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it. It will be seen, therefore, that the jurisdiction of the District Courts of the United... | |
 | 1880 - 554 pagini
...in what cases the District Court shall havo jurisdiction, and pi. 8 thereof declares, " of all civtl causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving...commonlaw remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." In Hiue v. Trevor, 4 Wall. 570, aud in The Belfast, 7 id. 644, brought in the State courts,... | |
 | 1889 - 546 pagini
...which it is provided that said courts " shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil canses of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, * * * saving...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." It would seem unquestionable therefore that the jurisdiction of the District Courts of... | |
 | 1872 - 854 pagini
...rightfully, given to the District Courts of the1 United States exclusive original cognisance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...where the common law is competent to give it, and that a proceeding in rem, as used in the Admiralty Courts, is not a common-law remedy. There can be... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1873 - 802 pagini
...1789, that the district courts of the United States " shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." The wisdom of these provisions is apparent, yet no one familiar with the subject can have... | |
 | Robert Dewey Benedict, Benjamin Lincoln Benedict - 1874 - 640 pagini
...rightfully, given to the District Courts of the United States exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...where the common law is competent to give it ; and that a proceeding in rem, as used in the admiralty Courts, is not a common-law remedy. There can be... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 388 pagini
...authority of the courts of United United States. States. of the courts of the several States: riedi cTioVof Second. Of all suits for penalties and forfeitures...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it. Fourth. Of all seizures under the laws of the United States, on laud or on waters not within... | |
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Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it... 
