| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 strani
...cognizance concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the circuit courts, of all causes, where an alien sues for a tort only, in violation of the law of nations : but what if there be no alien whose interest is such as to support an action for the tort? — which... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 strani
...cognizance concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the circuit courts, of all causes, where an alien sues for a tort only, in violation of the law of nations : but what if there be no alien whose interest is such as to support an action for the tort? — which... | |
| Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 660 strani
...concurrently with the Circuit and State Courts, of causes where an alien sues for a tort committed in violation of the* Law of Nations or a Treaty of the United States. They have also cognizance of complaints, by whomsoever instituted, in cases of captures made within... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1858 - 868 strani
...cognizance of all seizures on land * * under the laws of the United States ;" * * * also "of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the laic of nations, or o treaty with the United States." "Special courts" were also to be held, "in the... | |
| Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 strani
...concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the Circuit Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only, in violation...the law of nations or a treaty of the United States; and shall also have cognizance, concurrent as last mentioned, of all suits at common law where the... | |
| Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 532 strani
...section of the judiciary act, concurrent jurisdiction is committed to the district courts " of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations." Is this void, because, instead of enumerating and defining those torts, the courts are authorized to... | |
| Alfred Conkling - 1864 - 960 strani
...concurrent with the courts of the several states, or the circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of...law of nations, or a treaty of the United States. And shall also have cognizance, concurrent as last mentioned, of all suits at common law, where the... | |
| Frederick Charles Brightly - 1865 - 1152 strani
...an/ states, or the circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a lur8*' tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. And shall Suits by alien* alsr have cognisance, concurrent, as last mentioned, of all suits at common... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1874 - 726 strani
...concurrent with the courts of the several States or the Circuit Courts, as the case may bo, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of...the law of nations or a treaty of the United States : * Article III, section 2. f Amendment VI. J 1 Slut. at Large, 78. Statement of the case. "And shall... | |
| Timothy Farrar - 1867 - 556 strani
...concurrent with the courts of the several States or the circuit courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of...the law of nations or a treaty of the United States; and shall also have cognizance, concurrent as last mentioned, of all suits at common law where the... | |
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