| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1856 - 756 pages
...founded, 1st, on the act of Congress of September 24, 1V89, above mentioned, which enacts, section 84, " that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of tho United States shall otherwise provide, shall bo regardĀ«! a* the rules of decision, in triids at... | |
| Alfred Conkling - Admiralty - 1857 - 650 pages
...limitation, to the national courts, under that provision of the Judiciary Act by which it is declared that " the laws of the several states, except where...decision in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States where they apply." But this provision, it will be seen, does not embrace suits in the... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 756 pages
...of the aforesaid act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," lilt the laws of the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States ihall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded u the rules of decision in trials... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1857 - 996 pages
...Statutes, 92,) which provides: " That the laws of the several States, except when the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall he regarded as rules of decision, in trials at common law iu the courts of the United States, in cases... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...decisions of the state courts of New York. In answer to that argument it was said: "That section provides ' that the laws of the several states, except where...provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials of common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.' In order to maintain the... | |
| R. Kent Newmyer - History - 1985 - 516 pages
...administered in that forum. Section 34 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 addressed the question when it provided "that the laws of the several states, except where...provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials of common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply."115 But in what diversity... | |
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