 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1814 - 422 pages
...100 dollars, or a term of imprison.. ment not exceeding six months, is to be inflicted; and have also 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 States, where the seizures... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 786 pages
...admitted. 1 he act to establish the judicial courts provides, 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, where the seizures are made on waters... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Archibald De Bow Murphey - 1821 - 650 pages
...jurisdiction ;" and the act of Congress of 24th Sep. 1789. gives to the District Courts of the United States exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving the common law remedy, where the common law gives one. To ascertain what are causes of admiralty... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1828 - 776 pages
...rights of a suitor, in the District Court. The words of the section are: "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, and Trade of the United States, where seizures... | |
 | 1828 - 638 pages
...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 cognizance of maritime... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1829 - 670 pages
...courts of the several States; and some without such concurrent jur7sdiction. For instance, they have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, of seizures under ¿mpost,¿ navigation or trade laws of the United States, where the seizures are... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1829 - 460 pages
...courts of the several States; and some without such concurrent jurisdiction. For instance, they have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, of seizures under impost, navigation or trade laws of the United States, where the seizures are made... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1830 - 476 pages
...courts of the several States; and some without such concurrent jurisdiction. For instance, they have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, of seizures under impost, navigation or trade laws of the United States, where the seizures are made... | |
 | 1830 - 442 pages
...the high seas. The Judiciary Act, Laws of the U. S. vol. 2. ch. 20, sect. 9, gives lo this court ' exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.' I shall be glad to hear any definition of causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction which will... | |
 | 1831 - 338 pages
...hundred dollars, or a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months, is to be inflicted, and also 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 States, where the... | |
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Court.* Prior to the passage of that act the Supreme Court had no appellate jurisdiction in prize causes, except when the same were removed here from the Circuit Courts. Exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction... 
