 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 928 pages
...that now under consideration. That act does, indeed, provide: "that ' the laws of the several Slates, except where the ' Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United ' States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded ' as rules of decision in trials at common law, in ' the courts of the United... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 774 pages
...which that practice has prevailed. 751 APPENDIX. Trial of Aaron Bnrr. The words of that section are : " That the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties. o> statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...of the United States have made ample provision. The judiciary act, to which reference has been made, provides, that " the laws of the several states, except...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision, in trials at common law in courts of the United States,... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...voluntary admissions of fact against himself.2 1 The Judiciary Act of Congress, (1789, ch. 20, § 34,) provides that the laws of the several States, except...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 pages
...jurisdiction must arise in some of the States, they declared by the act Sept. 24, 1789, c. 20, $ 34, " That the laws of the several States, except where...treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...can only remark, that as to the common law, — the 34th section of the Judiciary Act having provided that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...founded on paramount necessity, and proclaimed by a military chief. In the case of Captain McKcnzie, laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties or statutes of the Union otherwise required, should be regarded as rules of decision in trialt at common law in the courts... | |
 | Bounties, Military - 1854 - 944 pages
...application of the provision of the act of Congress of September 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 34, which enacts that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 858 pages
...section of the act of Congress of September 24, 1789, (1 St., 92) commonly called fhc judiciary act, provides "that the laws of the several States, except...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), John McLean - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 686 pages
...as such is obligatory on this Court, without adoption. The 34th section of the judiciary act of 1789 provides,*" That the laws of the several States, except...treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as rules of decisions in trials at Common Law in the Courts of the United... | |
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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... 
