 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 860 pages
...reference will be made is the judicial act of September, 1789. 1 Stat. 70. The 13th section provides that the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction...a party, except between a State and its citizens, (for that is not embraced in the Constitution,) and except, also, between a State and citizens of another... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 802 pages
...District of Columbia, there na Circuit Court for that District. The Supreme Court of the United States has exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where a State na partv, except between a State and its citizens ; «nd except also between a State and citizens of... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1860 - 748 pages
...on the first Monday of August annually, for interlocutory matters. The Supreme Court hafe^exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state as defendant and its citizens ; and except, also, between a state as defendant, and citizens of other... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...relative to the original jurisdiction of the supreme court, "controversies between two or more states," "all controversies of a civil nature where a state is a party," are broad, comprehensive terms, by no obvious meaning or necessary implication excluding those which... | |
 | William D'Arcy Haley - Washington (D.C.) - 1861 - 274 pages
...a quorum, and hold annually one session, commencing on the first Monday in December. The court has exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil...also between a State and citizens of other States, or aliens,—in which latter case it has original, but not exclusive jurisdiction. It has, exclusively,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 824 pages
...shall be exclusive, and in what concurrent, when a State is a party. The words of that section are : " The supreme court shall have exclusive jurisdiction...also between a State and citizens of other States, and aliens ; in which latter case, it shall have original, but not exclusive jurisdiction." Now, considering... | |
 | Confederate States of America - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 490 pages
...affirmed. SEC. 44. 'Ac, Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction of all 0r|g)Dai eontroversies of a civil nature where a state is a party, except between a ||on cf ihe buureme state and its citizens, or citizens of any other state or nation. It shall »bo... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 810 pages
...confer. (Id. $ 2). By the law of 1789, ch. 20, (1 Story's Law» US 58, ф 13), the Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil...citizens, and except also between a state and citizens of othei states or alien.' ; in which latter cuse it has original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction : it... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 624 pages
...that the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction, &c., where a State is a party, &c., except between a State and citizens of other States, or aliens,...shall have original, but not exclusive jurisdiction. According to the argument, Graham «. Stucken. the whole of this exception would be unconstitutional,... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...continued at discretion. f 8. In what rases has the Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction f —298. In all controversies of a civil nature, where a State is a party, except between a State as defendant and its citizens ; and except, also, between a State as defendant and citizens of other... | |
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In all cases in which a State is a party, the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction. The thirteenth section of the judiciary act of 1789, provided that "the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where... 
