Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

Little, Brown, 1867 - Law - 668 pages

PART I	1

Jurisdiction over adjoining seas	2

Notice of the principal reports at	3

Notice of the principal reports in equity	4

Interesting character of reports Page	5

Rights of commerce	18

Right of passage over land 5 Right of navigable rivers 6 Surrender of fugitives	38

Ambassadors	44

Civil jurisdiction of the District Courts	404

Territorial Courts of the United States	414

Of the Concurrent Jurisdiction of the State Governments 418	418

Of concurrent judicial power	426

Of the Rights of Belligerents Page 1	431

20	432

Of Constitutional Restrictions on the Powers of the States	438

Of bills of credit	439

Consuls	48

Of the Declaration and Early Measures of	62

Protection to enemys property 4 Confiscation of property 5 Confiscation of debts	71

Of the various Kinds of Property liable to Capture	80

Domicil in the enemys country	92

484	94

1 Writ of habeas corpus	158

LECTURE VIII	163

486	180

Of Offences against the Law of Nations	183

Slavetrade	195

Residence in	202

Power to incorporate a bank	262

Effect of state judgments	273

Powers	304

Of the Judiciary Department	327

Of attorneys and counsel	330

Of clerks	332

Of marshals	333

LECTURE XV Of the Original and Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court	337

Its original jurisdiction	338

Its appellate jurisdiction in cases pending in State Courts	340

Its powers in cases of mandamus	345

Its original jurisdiction where a state is a party 346	346

Its appellate jurisdiction regulated by Congress	348

Its appellate jurisdiction confined to cases under the constitution treaties and laws	349

Its appellate jurisdiction to matter appearing on record	350

Jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts	354

Commonlaw jurisdiction in civil cases	363

Jurisdiction when an alien is a party	367

Jurisdiction between citizens of different states	371

Jurisdiction when a state is interested	374

Of the District and Territorial Courts of the United States	377

Of the District Court as a Prize Court	380

Its admiralty criminal jurisdiction	383

Limits of its admiralty jurisdiction	390

Jurisdiction as an Instance Court of Admiralty	403

Ex post facto laws	441

The states cannot control the exercise of federal power	442

23	450

Nor impair the obligation of contracts	457

32	458

Nor tax national banks or stocks	460

Nor exercise power over ceded places	464

Power to regulate commerce	467

492	476

Progress of the national jurisprudence	478

35	493

36	494

38	510

514	514

42	524

Of the Principal Publications of the Common	541

LECTURE XXIII Of the Civil	556

Early Roman law 2 The twelve tables	557

48	565

The Prætorian	569

Responsa prudentum	571

Imperial rescripts	576

Justinians Code Institutes Pandects Novels 7 Loss of the civil law 8 Its revival	577

56	605

57	607

59	624

63	626

3	628

Of religious opinions and worship	637

Amendments to the Constitution	650

183	655

66	656

70	659

87	660

184	663

Law of retaliation 100	668

Title	Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1 Commentaries on American Law, James Kent
Author	James Kent
Editor	George Franklin Comstock
Edition	11
Publisher	Little, Brown, 1867
Original from	National Library of the Netherlands
Digitized	17 Jan 2013
ISBN	0306712938, 9780306712937
Length	668 pages

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