Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

Little, Brown, 1858

OF THE LAW OF NATIONS	1

Of the Rights and Duties of Nations in a State of Peace	21

Of the Declaration and Early Measures of War	58

Of the various kinds of Property liable to Capture	83

LECTURE V Of the Rights of Belligerents	99

Of the Rights and Duties of Neutrals	123

Of Restrictions upon Neutral Trade	142

Of Truces Passports and Treaties of Peace	168

Its powers in cases of mandamus	354

Its original jurisdiction where a state is a party	356

Its appellate jurisdiction regulated by congress	357

Its appellate jurisdiction confined to cases under the con stitution treaties and laws	359

Its appellate jurisdiction exists though a state be a party	360

Of the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts in respect to the Common Law and in respect to Parties	364

Commonlaw jurisdiction in criminal cases Id	366

Commonlaw jurisdiction in civil cases	374

Of Offences against the Law of Nations	189

OF THE GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES Page LECTURE X Of the History of the Ameri...	211

Of Congress	230

Of the division into two houses	231

Of the Senate	233

Of the House of Representatives	237

Privileges of the two houses	251

Manner of passing laws	255

Presidents negative	257

Of Judicial Constructions of the Powers of Congress	260

Of priority of payment claimed by the United States Id	269

Taxation	275

Preemption of Indian lands	278

Effect of state judgments	281

Power of congress over the militia	284

Power of congress as to internal improvements	289

Of the President	293

Unity of the office Id	295

Mode of election Id	297

Duration of the office	302

Powers	303

His responsibility	311

Of the Judiciary Department	313

Of the appointment tenure and support of the judges	314

Its general powers	322

Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court	326

Jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts	332

Of Attorneys and Counsel	340

Of Clerks	341

Of Marshals	342

Of the Original and Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court	346

Its original jurisdiction	347

Its appellate jurisdiction in cases pending in State Courts	349

Jurisdiction when an alien is a party	378

Jurisdiction between citizens of different states	379

Jurisdiction when a state is interested	385

Of the District and Territorial Courts of the United States	388

Of the District Court as a Prize Court	390

Its admiralty criminal jurisdiction	394

Jurisdiction of the District Courts 336	395

Limits of its admiralty jurisdiction	402

Jurisdiction as an Instance Court of Admiralty	415

Civil jurisdiction of the District Courts	419

Territorial Courts of the United States	427

Of the Concurrent Jurisdiction of the State Governments	431

Of concurrent judicial power	439

Of Constitutional Restrictions on the Powers of the States	452

Of bills of credit	453

Ex post facto laws	455

The states cannot control the exercise of federal power	456

Nor impair the obligation of contracts	472

Nor pass naturalization laws	473

Nor tax national banks or stocks	474

Nor exercise power over ceded places	478

Power to regulate commerce	481

Progress of the national jurisprudence	492

OF THE VARIOUS SOURCES OF THE MUNICIPAL LAW OF	499

Of Reports of Judicial Decisions	530

Of the Principal Publications of the Common Law	558

Of the Civil Law	574

OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS	607

2 Homine replegiando	647

Of religious opinions and worship	653

APPENDIX	659

Amendments to the Constitution Id	670

Título	Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1 Commentaries on American Law, James Kent
Autor	James Kent
Edição	9
Editora	Little, Brown, 1858
Original de	a Biblioteca Pública de Nova Iorque
Digitalizado	4 Mai 2009

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