 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...cases already cited would seem to require. We would have expected some express jurisdiction clared (c) that the 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 trials at common law in the courts... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...; Sumner r. Hicks, 2 Black, 532. The Judiciary Act of 1 789 recognizes this principle in providing that " the laws of the several States, except where...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 (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 624 pages
...OTHERS. Underthe 34th section of theJudicary Act of Septomber24th, 1789,(1 US Siat. at Large, 92,) which provides, that " the laws of the several States, except...where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the Uuited States shall otherwise require or provide, shall bo regarded as rules of decision, in trials... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 950 pages
...evidence to show the recovery and the title on which it rested.4 The 34th section of the judiciary act6 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 (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 638 pages
...virtue of the 34th section of the Judiciary Act of September 24th, 1789, (1 US Stat. at Large, 92). That section provides, " that the laws of the several States,...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... | |
 | Joseph Brown Heiskell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 882 pages
...Congress or some rule of the Federal Courts made in pursuance of law. The Act of 1789, s. 34, 1 Stat., 81, 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 Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 670 pages
...would follow if this question were to be governed by section 34 of the judiciary act of 1789, which 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...are requisite for jurors by the laws of the State of which they are citizens" ; and still further, " that the laws of the several States, except where...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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 568 pages
...with it. The amendment of the Senator from Connecticut, which I have in my hand, is as follows : — " That the laws of the several States, except where...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in all trials at Common IMO in the courts of the United... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 746 pages
...testimony of Clements was improperly rejected. The section in question declares that the laws of the [*363] several * States, except where the constitution, treaties,...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... | |
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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... 
