 | United States - 1812 - 524 pages
...a train of reasoning founded on cases in some degree analogous to this. The jurisdiction of courts is a branch of that which is possessed by the nation...susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1813 - 658 pages
...a train of reasoning founded on cases in some degree analogous to this. The jurisdiction of courts is a branch of that which is possessed by the nation,...susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereign238... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 680 pages
...a train of reasoning, founded on cases in some degree analogous to this. The jurisdiction of courts is a branch of that which is possessed by the nation...susceptible of no limitation not imposed by .itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...429; 4 Pet. 564. "The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory, is necessarily conclusive and absolute; it is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it derived from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty, to... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...429; 4 Pet. 564. "The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory, is necessarily conclusive and absolute; it is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it derived from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty, to... | |
 | Alexander McLeod, Marcus Tullius Cicero Gould - Canada - 1841 - 426 pages
...purposes, is absolutely unlawful." 1 Kent's Com. 118, 4th ed. " The jurisdiction of courts," says Marshal], ch. J. " is a branch of that which is possessed by...susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself: any restriction derived from an external source would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 600 pages
...lands ; and, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall (Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon, 7 Cranch 130), "the jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute, susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...results from the well established position, that the jurisdiction of a nation within its own territory is exclusive and absolute ; it is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 754 pages
...a train of reasoning, founded on cases in some degree analogous to this. The jurisdiction of courts is a branch of that which is possessed by the nation...susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 942 pages
...case, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall stated that the jurisdiction of courts of justice was a branch of that possessed by the nation as an independent sovereign...susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty... | |
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The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its... 
