| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1881 - 784 pages
...jurisdiction appears, or can be presumed. In United States v. An-edoniln, 6 Pet. 709, it is said : "The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction...petitioner states such a case in his petition, that, on demurrer, the court would render judgment in his favor, it is an undoubted case of jurisdiction." The... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1844 - 800 pages
...Jurisdiction has been thus denned by this court. " The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdic.tioa; it is coram judice whenever a case is presented which...brings this power into action ; if the petitioner presents such a case in his petition, that on a demurrer the court would render a judgment in his favour,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 796 pages
...of the subject on which they acted ? j / at , Jurisdiction has been thus defined by this court. '' The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction...brings this power into action ; if the petitioner presents such a case in his petition, that on a demurrer the court would render a judgment in his favour,... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1872 - 752 pages
...•court. Jurisdiction has been thus defined by the Supreme Court of the United States, in 6 Pet,rs, 700. "The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction;...is presented, which brings this power into action." In 12 Peters, 718, the court say, "Any movement by a court, is necessarily the exercise of jurisdiction;... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1858 - 764 pages
...234] and from that point forth, its action is valid, and all rights accruing thereby are secure. " The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction;...is presented which brings this power into action." 6 Peters 709. In this case, jurisdiction attaches on the decease of any person indebted beyond the... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - 1848 - 786 pages
...in his life time. See Act of Congress of May 15, 1826, Sec. 1. Thompson's Digest. 59? — Appendix. The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction ; it is coram judice, whenever a cause is presented which brings this power into action. If the plaintiff states such a case, that,... | |
| Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, Oliver Miller - 1850 - 596 pages
...petition. In Grignon against Astor, 2 How. 338, the same court declared " That if the petitioner presents such a case in his petition that — on a demurrer the court would render a judgment in his favor — it is an undoubted case of jurisdiction." The converse of this rule must... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1852 - 716 pages
...ably and briefly defined by Baldwin, J. in The United States v. Arredondo, (6 Peters, 709,) thus : "The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction...petitioner states such a case in his petition, that on demurrer the court would render judgment in his favor, it is an undoubted case of jurisdiction." The... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 684 pages
...all agree that if the jurisdiction exists, there was no error in refusing the mandamus prayed for. " The power to hear and determine a cause is jurisdiction...presented which brings this power into action; if the petitionei states such a case in his petition that, on a demurrer, the Court would render judgment... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), John McLean - 1856 - 686 pages
...payment of the debts of a deceased person, the Court say, " The power to hear and determine the case is jurisdiction ; it is coram judice, whenever a case is presented which brings the power into action. If the petitioner presents such a case, as, on demurrer, the Court would render... | |
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