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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... "
A Vindication of the Recent and Prevailing Policy of the State of Georgia ... - Page 61
by Augustin Smith Clayton - 1827 - 82 pages
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 22

Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...upon local legislative enactments, are not "laws" within the meaning of the Federal statute, which provides 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...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for ...

United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 736 pages
...of the court in that behalf have not been attended with any better success. Undoubtedly the rule is that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States otherwise require or provide, are to be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 31

Law - 1885 - 544 pages
...Statutes, which is a reproduction of the 34th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, it is declared 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...
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Diversity Jurisdiction, Multi-party Litigation, Choice of Law in the Federal ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1972 - 662 pages
...Rules of Decision Act, which can be analogized to section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act. It provides that "The laws of the several states, except where the Constitution or n See 1 CROSSKEY, POLITICS AND THE CONSTITUTION IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 549-53 (1953);...
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Impeachment; Selected Materials: Ninety-third Congress, First Session

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Impeachments - 1973 - 744 pages
...section of the aforesaid act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," that the laws of the several States, except where...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 9

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...follow the 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,...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials of common law in the courts of the United...
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Rules Enabling Act of 1985: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice - Court rules - 1985 - 364 pages
...Committee.90 4. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Section 34 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 provided: 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...
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Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic

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...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials of common law in the courts of the United...
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The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States ..., Volume 4

Maeva Marcus - History - 1992 - 856 pages
...possibly even after the bill was recommitted on July 13. Enrolled Act [34.] And be it further enacted, That the laws of the several States except where the...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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The Judiciary Act of 1789

Courts - 1989 - 40 pages
...balancing state and federal interests better than section 34. The section stipulated, simply enough, [t]hat 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...
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