 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...and burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas ;(a) °h "iew™ofthe saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where united states. the common law is competent to give it; and shall also have exclusive original cognizance... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1845 - 606 pages
...admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and the act of Congress of 1789 says, that the district courts shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. It is certain, however, that the state courts take an extensive and unquestioned... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 736 pages
...of the Judiciary act of 1799., (1 Stat. at Large, 76,) it is provided that the District CAirts ojf the United States shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of imports, navigation, or trade, of the United... | |
 | United States - Law - 1850 - 886 pages
...vessels of ten or more tons burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas ;(a) saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, wherethe common law is competent to give it ; and shall also have exclusive original cognizance of... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...commercial jurisdiction. The words of the judiciary act of 1789, sec. 9, are, that the district courts shall have " exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 500 pages
...civil causes of t ", J admiralty and maritime jurisdiction," &c., " saving to suitors, 47. i 'cmg. i in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the com- sess - ch - 20 mon law is competent to give it." Is this, then, a question of prize or not? What... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 788 pages
...and navigation laws. 2627. It is enacted by the judiciary act, section ninth, that the district court shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade of the United... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Admiralty - 1857 - 502 pages
...vessels often or more tons burden, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas ; saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common l*r is competent to give it." 1 TOL..I. The jurisdiction conferred by the act with respect to civil... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Admiralty - 1857 - 650 pages
...reconciling such a doctrine with that provision of the Judiciary Act which declares that the district courts shall " have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and mari•time jurisdiction," would seem of itself to constitute a very serious objection to such a doctrine... | |
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Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors In all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it... 
