| 1845 - 436 pages
...District Courts, when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; and mandatory process in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts established, or persons * 12 Peter's Rep., 357. holding office under the authority of the United States.... | |
| United States. Congress - 1851 - 828 pages
...Secretary for delivery. The court was authorized by statute of the Federal Legislature, among other things, to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by...principles and usages of law. to any courts appointed, or persons holding offices under the authority of the United States. A plain simple proceeding, before... | |
| James Kent - 1851 - 706 pages
...constitutionally issue from the Supreme Court.a The judiciary act, sec. 13, authorized the Supreme Court to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the...principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. There was no doubt that the act applied... | |
| Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 pages
...By the 13th section of the judiciary act of 1789, it is provided 'that the supreme court shall have power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted...principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The issuing of a mandamus to courts... | |
| Richard Swainson Fisher - 1852 - 752 pages
...tion to the District Courts, when proceeding as Courts of Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; and writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The trial of issues in fact in the... | |
| RICHARD S. FISHER - 1853 - 638 pages
...prohibition to the District Courts, when proceeding as Courts of Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction'; and writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The trial of issues in fact in the... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...first, with regard to the writ of mandamus. § 199. The Judiciary Act authorizes the Supreme Court to issue writs of mandamus, " in cases warranted by...principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed [or persons holding office] under the authority of the United States."8 A writ of mandamus, according to... | |
| John Bouvier - 1854 - 790 pages
...at least supposes, to be consonant to right and justice. The act so often cited gives this court the power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any court or person appointed, holding office under the authority of the United States. The issuing of... | |
| 1861 - 828 pages
...judiciary act, which was framed upon tho provisions of the constitution, the US supreme court received power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted...principles and usages of law " to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United Slates." Afterward, however, upon construction... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...interposition of the Court was invoked, on the ground tha*t they were authorized by an act of Congress Ho issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the...principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.' The first question, then, that naturally... | |
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