 | Law - 1850 - 600 pages
...Lakes, or navigable waters connecting the same ;" approved Feb. 26, 1845. By this act, " the District Courts of the United States shall have, possess and...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business of commerce and navigation, between ports... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - Admiralty - 1850 - 608 pages
...the same. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Courts of...concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burthen and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Maritime law - 1853 - 584 pages
...due for services performed on, from, or to the sea. 422. That Act declares that the District Courts shall have, possess, and exercise, the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, arising in or upon or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1854 - 742 pages
...considerations led to the enactment, in the year 1845, of an act, in addition to that of 1789, declarins that "the district courts of the United States shall...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at tlit: time employed in business of commerce and navigation between ports... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...connecting the same ;' and the enacting clause conforms to the title. It declares that these courts shall have, possess, and exercise the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, arising in, or upon, or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 790 pages
...considerations led to the enactment, in the year 1845, of an act, in addition to that of 1789, declaring that "the district courts of the United States shall...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business of commerce and navigation between ports... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1855 - 786 pages
...considerations led to the enactment, in the year 1845, of an act, in addition to that of 1789, declaring that "the district courts of the United States shall...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business of commerce and navigation between ports... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 514 pages
...considerations led to the enactment, in the year 1845, of an act, in addition to that of 1789, declaring that "the district courts of the United States shall...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business of commerce and navigation between ports... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1855 - 804 pages
...confines the jurisdiction of admiralty courts on the lakes and rivers, to " matters of contract and tort in, upon, or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upward, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business of commerce... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Admiralty - 1857 - 502 pages
...appeared to infer a disclaimer of the power to confer admiralty jurisdiction. It is true, it ordains that " the District Courts of the United States shall...have, possess and exercise the same jurisdiction," in the cases specified, "as is now possessed and exercised by the said courts" in cases arising out of... | |
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States shall have, possess, and exercise the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, arising in, upon, or concerning steamboats, and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time... 
