 In a just sense, the amendment then may well be construed to embrace all suits, which are not of equity and admiralty jurisdiction, whatever may be the peculiar form which they may assume to settle legal rights.  A Treatise on the Law of Evidence - Page 235by Simon Greenleaf - 1853Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 584 pages
...was secured, may, in a just sense, be well construed to embrace all suits which are riot of equity or admiralty jurisdiction, whatever may be the peculiar...form which they may assume to settle legal rights. Parsons vs. Bedford et al. 447. 2. The trial by jury is justly dear to the American people. It has... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 670 pages
...so construe it as to effect that object. " In a just sense the amendment then may well be construed to embrace all suits which are not of equity and admiralty...form which they may assume to settle legal rights." In defining " suits at common law," in the amendment, the supreme court declare the term to be, what... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...examples variously adopted and modified. In a just sense, the amendment then might be well construed to embrace all suits which are not of equity and admiralty jurisdiction, whatever might be the peculiar form which they might assume to settle legal rights. And congress seems to have... | |
 | Robert Rantoul, Thomas Sims, James Winchell Stone - Boston (Mass.) - 1851 - 56 pages
...may be construed to embrace ALL SUITS, which are not of equity and admiralty jurisrftrftoH.whatever may be the peculiar form which they may assume to...contemporaneous with the proposal of this amendment" [the seventh amendment which secures jury trial in suits at common law:] "for in the ninth section... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 714 pages
...amendment of the Constitution) "the amendment then may well be construed to embrace all suits whjch are not of equity and admiralty jurisdiction, whatever...form which they may assume to settle legal rights." Parsons v. Bedford, 3 Peters, 446, 447. (The counsel then proceeded to argue that this statute was... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 626 pages
...sense, the amendment, then, may well be construed to embrace all suits, which are not of equity or admiralty jurisdiction, WHATEVER MAY BE THE PECULIAR...FORM WHICH THEY MAY ASSUME TO SETTLE LEGAL RIGHTS." PorSOHS VS. Bedford, 3 Peters's Rep. 456-57. Here the court say, that the term " common law," in the... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 588 pages
...sense, the amendment, then, may well be construed to embrace all suits, which are not of equity or admiralty jurisdiction, WHATEVER MAY BE THE PECULIAR...FORM WHICH THEY MAY ASSUME TO SETTLE LEGAL RIGHTS." PurSOtls VS. Bedford, 3 Peters^ Rep. 456, 7. The last sentence I have underscored. In this sentence,... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 588 pages
...sense, the amendment, then, may well be construed to embrace all suits, which are not of equity or admiralty jurisdiction, WHATEVER MAY BE THE PECULIAR FORM WHICH THEY MAY ASSUME TO SETTLE LEGAL EIGHTS." PoTSOHS VS. Bedford, 3 Peters's Rep. 456-57. Here the court say, that the term "common law,"... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 592 pages
...be cons/rued to embrace all suits, which are not of equity or admiralty jurisdiction, WHATEVER WAY BE THE PECULIAR FORM WHICH THEY MAY ASSUME TO SETTLE LEGAL RIGHTS." ParsOns VS. Bedford, 3 Peters's Rep. 456, 7. The last sentence I have underscored. In this sentence,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 90 pages
...a just sense, the Amendment may well be construed to embrace all suits, which are not of Equity or Admiralty jurisdiction, whatever may be the peculiar...form which they may assume to settle legal rights. " Now, since the claim for a fugitive is not a suit in Equity or Admiralty, but a suit to settle what... | |
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