Commentaries on American Law: 1

Little, Brown, 1860 - 692 pages

Page	xxii

PART I	xxxvii

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

Of the Rights of Belligerents	99

Of the Rights and Duties of Neutrals	124

Of Restrictions upon Neutral Trade	143

Its original jurisdiction	350

Its appellate jurisdiction in cases pending in State Courts	352

Its powers in cases of mandamus	357

Its original jurisdiction where a state is a party	359

Its appellate jurisdiction regulated by Congress	360

Its appellate jurisdiction confined to cases under the constitution treaties and laws	362

Its appellate jurisdiction to matter appearing on record Id	363

Of the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts in Respect to the Common Law and in Respect to Parties	367

Of Truces Passports and Treaties of Peace	169

Of Offences against the Law of Nations	190

PART II	212

Of Congress	231

Of the division into two houses	232

Of the Senate	234

Of the House of Representatives	238

Privileges of the two houses	253

Manner of passing laws	257

Presidents negative	258

Of Judicial Constructions of the Powers of Congress	262

Of priority of payment claimed by the United States Id	270

Taxation	277

Preemption of Indian lands	280

Effect of state judgments	283

Power of Congress over the militia	286

Power of Congress as to internal improvements	291

Of the President	295

Unity of the office Id	297

Mode of election ld	299

Duration of the office	304

Powers	305

His responsibility	313

Of the Judiciary Department	315

Of the appointment tenure and support of the judges	316

Its general powers	324

Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court	328

Jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts	335

Jurisdiction of the District Courts	339

Jurisdiction of the auxiliary State Courts	342

Of clerks	344

Of marshals	345

Of the Original and Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court	349

Commonlaw jurisdiction in criminal cases	370

Commonlaw jurisdiction in civil cases	377

Jurisdiction when an alien is a party	381

Jurisdiction when a state is interested	388

Of the District and Territorial Courts of the United States	391

Of the District Court as a Prize Court	393

Its admiralty criminal jurisdiction	397

Limits of its admiralty jurisdiction	405

Jurisdiction as an Instance Court of Admiralty	422

Civil jurisdiction of the District Courts	427

Territorial Courts of the United States	430

Of the Concurrent Jurisdiction of the State Governments	434

Of concurrent judicial power	442

Of Constitutional Restrictions on the Powers of the States	455

Of bills of credit	456

Ex post facto laws	458

The states cannot control the exercise of federal power	459

Nor impair the obligation of contracts	463

Nor pass naturalization laws	476

Nor tax national banks or stocks	477

Nor exercise power over ceded places	481

Power to regulate commerce	484

Progress of the national jurisprudence	496

Of Statute Law	502

Of Reports of Judicial Decisions	533

Of the Principal Publications of the Common Law	561

Of the Civil Law	577

2 Homine replegiando	650

Of religious opinions and worship	657

APPENDIX	663

Amendments to the Constitution Id	674

190	687

Title	Commentaries on American Law: 1
Author	James Kent
Edition	10
Publisher	Little, Brown, 1860
Original from	Sapienza University of Rome
Digitized	29 May 2013
Length	692 pages

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