that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases... Commentaries on American Law - Page 371by James Kent - 1851Full view - About this book
| William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...taken by any iudjje of the suprême, or superior court of law of such átate. S4. SECT. XXXIV. The laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties or statutes of the united stales shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials... | |
| John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...judicial powers of the union, it is expressly provided, that " the laws of the several states, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States." AS the laws of the several states consist of the unwritten law, as well as of the written... | |
| Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they ap. ply ; and whereas by the laws of Virginia it is provided, that in cases not capital, the offender... | |
| Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - Impeachments - 1805 - 396 pages
...the act of Congress of Sej>t. 24th, 1Г89, ;vjove msnuoned, which enacts, section "A *, " that the laws of the several states, except where the constitution treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision, in trials at common... | |
| Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...the aforesaid act, entitled " An art to establish the judicial courts of the United States," that the laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes ot the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision... | |
| Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1807 - 532 pages
...therefore, are no authorities. The 34th section of the judiciary act, p. 1 1 2. which says that the laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes, of the United States shall otherwise direct, shall be regarded as the rules of decision, in trials. at common... | |
| Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 552 pages
...thought the 34th section of the judicial act, which declares that " the laws of the several states shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States," was intended to apply to civil cases, to suits at common law, contradistinguished from... | |
| T. Carpenter - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 482 pages
...the judicial act, it is contended, aas made this adoption The words of that section are, " That the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, Treaties or Statutes of the U-iited States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials... | |
| Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 608 pages
...this description. In the 1st vol. of the Laws of the United Stales, p. 74, it is enacted, " That the laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision, in trials... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 700 pages
...Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise recognise or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply," is limited to State laws strictly local, and, in my view, does not extend to questions of evidence... | |
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