 ... where the matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of three thousand dollars, and (a) arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority,...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 2341906Full view - About this book
 | William Rawle - Constitutional law - 1829 - 362 pages
...in many states it continues unimpaired in its qualities and nature. It is indirectly recognised in the Constitution of the United States, and by the acts of congress, which have been since passed. The indefeasible quality conceived to be incident to it has not yet been... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...law became of force as a national system. § 17. In looking at the question of what has been done by the constitution of the United States, and by the acts of congress, concerning this subject, we must carry in our minds the distinction between law, and tribunals to administer... | |
 | Henry Nichols Blake, Montana. Supreme Court, Cornelius Hedges (Reporter), Horace Riverside Buck (Reporter), Fletcher Maddox (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 760 pages
...authority, and its act would be a nullity. In the case of Fenn v. Holme, 21 How. 484, the court say : " By the constitution of the United States, and by the acts of congress organizing the federal courts, and defining and investing the jurisdiction of these tribunals, the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 756 pages
...possession of sufficient duration to warrant the legal conclusion of the existence of such written title. By the constitution of the United States, and by the acts of congress organizing the federal courts, and defining and in vesting the jurisdiction of these tribunals, the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1912 pages
...all sustain the following announcement made in that case for the court by Mr. Justice DANIEL : "By the constitution of the United States, and by the acts of congress organizing the federal courts,- and defining and investing the jurisdiction of these tribunals, the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1858 - 670 pages
...possession of sufficient duration to warrant the legal conclusion of the existence of such written title. By the Constitution of the United States, and by the acts of Congress organizing the Federal courts, and defining and in Testing the jurisdiction of these tribunals, the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 862 pages
...possession of sufficient duration to warrant the legal conclusion of the existence'of such written title. By the Constitution of the United States, and by the Acts of Congress organizing the federal courts, and defining and investing the jurisdiction of these tribunals, the... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 258 pages
...citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants from different States; or, where the matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of three thousand dollars, and (a) arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1282 pages
...Courts shall have original Jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature • * * where the matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of. interest and costs, the sum or value of three thousand dollars, and arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 884 pages
...a controversy between him and a citizen of a State conferred upon them by section 2 of article 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and by the acts of Congress. Lam v. Randall, 4 Dillon, 425, followed. A foreign subject who Is qualified to become a citizen of... | |
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