Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

Little, Brown,, 1878

Page	iii

OF THE GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE OF	v

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	5

Rights of Commerce	19

Its Appellate Jurisdiction exists though a State be a Party	364

326	366

Of the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts in Respect to the Common Law and in Respect to Parties	368

Common Law Jurisdiction in Criminal Cases	371

Common Law Jurisdiction in Civil Cases	378

Jurisdiction when an Alien is a Party	383

Jurisdiction between Citizens of Different States	384

Jurisdiction when a State is interested	391

Right of Passage over Land 5 Right of Navigable Rivers	37

Surrender of Fugitives	39

Ambassadors	45

Consuls	49

Of the Declaration and other Early Measures of	57

Assistance to Allies in	58

Declaration of	63

Protection to Enemys Property	65

Confiscation of Property	68

Confiscation of Debts	72

Interdiction of Commerce	75

Of the Various Kinds of Property liable to Capture	82

Domicile in the Enemys Country	83

Residence in it 3 Colonial Trade	89

Property in Transitu	95

Of the Rights of Belligerents 1 Moderation a Duty	98

Law of Retaliation	103

Privateering	109

Enemys Property in Neutral Vessels	133

Of Restrictions upon Neutral Trade	142

Page	148

Of Truces Passports and Treaties of Peace	168

Of Offences against the Law of Nations	188

Prizes	197

Of Judicial Constructions of the Powers of Congress	257

447	262

Of the President	290

Of the Judiciary Department	309

Its General Powers	317

135	321

Of the Original and Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court 313	347

Its Original Jurisdiction	348

Its Appellate Jurisdiction in Cases pending in State Courts	350

Its Powers in Cases of Mandamus 314	355

Its Original Jurisdiction where a State is a Party	358

Its Appellate Jurisdiction regulated by Congress	359

159	360

Its Appellate Jurisdiction confined to Cases under the Constitution Treaties and Laws	361

323 824 325 7 Its Appellate Jurisdiction to Matter appearing on the Record	362

Of the District and Territorial Courts of the United States	394

Ransom Bills 6 Right of Postliminium Page 1	397

21	402

26	413

271	415

Limits of its Admiralty Jurisdiction 4 Jurisdiction as an Instance Court of Admiralty	424

Civil Jurisdiction of the District Courts	429

Territorial Courts of the United States	432

Of the Concurrent Jurisdiction of the State Governments	436

32	440

Of Concurrent Judicial Power	443

84	456

Of Bills of Credit	457

35	458

Ex post facto Laws	459

C8 41	460

The States cannot control the Exercise of Federal Power	461

598	462

Nor impair the Obligation of Contracts	464

51	473

56	474

Nor pass Naturalization Laws	478

Nor tax National Banks or Stocks	480

Nor exercise Power over Ceded Places	484

Power to regulate Commerce	488

66	500

Progress of National Jurisprudence	504

439	517

74	528

538	538

Of the Civil	578

Early Roman Law 2 The Twelve Tables	579

86	585

The Prætorian	591

Responsa Prudentum	592

Imperial Rescripts	596

108	602

Justinian His Code Institutes Pandects Novels	603

Its Revival	604

Title	Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1 Issues 477-508 of 19th-century legal treatises Commentaries on American Law, James Kent
Author	James Kent
Editor	Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
Edition	12
Publisher	Little, Brown,, 1878
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	26 Jun 2008

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