 | North Dakota - 1862 - 640 pages
...competent witness in all cases, both civil and criminal, except as herein otherwise declared ; and no person shall be disqualified as a witness in any civil action or proceeding, by reason of his or her interest in the result of the same, as a party or otherwise ; but such interest may be shown... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1864 - 1062 pages
...Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United Suites, in cases where they apply." (ยง 34.) Under these injunctions it was very easy, if not... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - 1864 - 950 pages
...constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall he regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law, in the court of the United States, in cases where they apply."3 CHAPTER VI. OF THE ADVISORY POWER OF THE SUPREME... | |
 | James Kent - 1866 - 724 pages
...states, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the Union otherwise required, should be . regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where the7 applied, (d)* The subsequent act of May 8th, 1792, for.regulating... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1868 - 624 pages
...Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the INDEX. United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...of the United States, in cases where they apply," the law of a State allowing a party to n suit to be examined as a witness on his own bohalf, is a rule... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 pages
...Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, where they apply." Sec. 34. In Suydam p., Williamson, 24 How. 427, the Supreme Court... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1869 - 954 pages
...Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...of the United States, in cases where they apply." This act does not, however, include cases in admiralty, and, until the passage of recent statutes,... | |
 | 1874 - 436 pages
...thirty-fourth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, enacting "that the laws of the several States . . shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...of the United States, in cases where they apply," does not apply to questions of a general nature not based on a local statute or usage, nor on any rule... | |
 | Joseph Brown Heiskell - 1870 - 882 pages
...Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...of the United States, in cases where they apply." In Waiiman v. Southard, 10 Wheat., 1, it was observed by the Court, that the laws of the several States... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1870 - 670 pages
...constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...of the United States, in cases where they apply." Carroll v. Watkins. Having given the statutes and decisions of the courts of the State on this question,... | |
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that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases... 
