 | 1881 - 340 páginas
...is composed of twentyfour sovereign and independent States, each of which may have its local usages and Common Law. There is no principle which pervades...authority of Law, that is not embodied in the Constitution and laws of the Union. The Common Law could be made a part of our Federal system only by legislative... | |
 | 1889 - 852 páginas
...Peters' Reports, 591, the court says: "It is clear there can be no common law of the United States. The common law could be made a part of our federal system only by legislative adoption." In the absence, then, of any act of Congress adopting the common law as a part of the system of Federal... | |
 | 1890 - 986 páginas
...the United States. Thefederal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent States, each of which may have its local usages, customs,...our federal system only by legislative adoption:" Per MCLEAN, J., Whcaton v. Peters (1834), 8 Pet. (33 US) 658 ; and citing many other authorities. In... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1890 - 800 páginas
...United States. The federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent states ; each of which may have its local usages, customs and...our federal system only by legislative adoption." Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 658. In the case of Tennessee v. Davis, 100 U. c>. 257, a case strongly... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1890 - 1014 páginas
...United States. The federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent States, each of which may have its local usages, customs, and common law. There is no principle which ptrvades the Union, and has the authority of law, that is not embodied in the Constitution or laws... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1893 - 858 páginas
...States, " each of Dissenting Opinion: Field, J. which," as said in Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 658, " may have its local usages, customs and common law....system only by legislative adoption. When, therefore, a common-law right is asserted, we must look to the State in which the controversy originated." And there... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1893 - 712 páginas
...is composed of independent states, "each of which," as said in Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 658, "may have its local usages, customs, and common law....The common law could be made a part of our federal S3'stem only by legislative adoption. When, therefore, a common-law right is asserted, we must look... | |
 | 1894 - 388 páginas
...United States. The federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent states; each of which may have its local usages, customs and...or laws of the union. The common law could be made part of our federal system only by legislative adoption. When, therefore, a common law right is asserted... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1896 - 540 páginas
...United States. The Federal Government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent States ; each of which may have its local usages, customs,...of our Federal system only by legislative adoption. It is insisted that our ancestors, when they migrated to this country, brought with them the English... | |
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It is clear, there can be no common law of the United States. The federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent States; each of which may have its local usages, customs, and common law. There is no principle which pervades the... 
