 | Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...States statute of 1875, determining the jurisdiction of the Federal Circuit Courts, it is provided that no civil suit shall be brought before either of said...other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving such process or commencing such proceeding. By... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 808 pages
...particular is substantially a re-enactment of the act of 1789 (1 Stat. 79, sect. 11), provides that " no civil suit shall ,be brought before either of said...proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhab itant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving such process or commencing such proceedings,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - National banks (U.S.) - 1878 - 1018 pages
...district. The act of I 'ongress relating to both the Circuit and District Courts is quite explicit, that no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts, against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process, in any other district than that whereof... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1122 pages
...1888 (Act Aug. 13, 1888, c. 866, § 1, 25 Stat. 433 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 508] ), provides that "no civil suit shall be brought before either of said...inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only upon the fact that the action is between citizens of different states, suit shall be brought only within... | |
 | George N. Lamphere - Executive departments - 1880 - 310 pages
...arrested in one district for trial in another in any civil action before a Circuit or District Court. And no civil suit shall be brought before either of...other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving such process, or commencing such proceeding, except... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 2084 pages
...equal force to that clause of the act of 1887, as corrected by the act of 1888, which declares that "no civil suit shall be brought, before either of...other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant." That is to say. each defendant must be an inhabitant of the district in which he is sued, because the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1906 pages
...citizen against a non-resident alien defendant, notwithstanding the provision of the act of 1887 that "no civil suit shall be brought before either of said...proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant."1 2. SAME. In such case jurisdiction exists by virtue of the citizenship of the plaintiff... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2096 pages
...provision : "And no civil suit shall be brought before either of the said courts against any pel-son or by any original process or proceeding in any other...jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the case is between citizens of different states, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 2060 pages
...Section 51 declares that no civil suit shall be brought in any District Court against any person by nny original process or proceeding in any other district...Inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on diversity of citizenship suit may be brought in the district of the residence of either plaintiff or... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1928 - 1130 pages
...Judicial Code, § 51 (28 USCA § 112), provides that no civil suit shall be brought in any District Court against any person by any original process or proceeding...other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant. The defendant is conceded to be an inhabitant of the state of Ohio. The same section provides : "But... | |
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... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person" by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant... 
