...the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as...Courts of the United States, in cases where they apply. This provision is held to include those statutes of the several States which prescribe rules of evidence...

...can only remark, that as to the common law, — the 34th section of the Judiciary Act having provided that the laws of the several states, except where...decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, where they apply, — the common and statute law of the several states is adopted as...

...several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in...courts of the United States in cases where they apply." Here, then, Congress adopt for each State the laws of that State ; and among the laws so adopted were...

...judiciary act, which provides that the laws of the several States, with the exceptions there stated, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common...courts of the United States, in cases where they apply. The highest court of the State of Alabama has given a construction to the act of the legislature chartering...

...the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as...decision, in trials at common law, in the courts of the United State, in cases where they apply." This statute so expressly and evidently embraced the case...

...statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply ; and whereas by the laws of Virginia it is provided, that in cases not capital, the offender shall...

...treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise provide, shall be regarded as rules of decisions in trials at Common Law in the Courts of the United States, in cases where they apply." The second objection urged, if the right arises under the 21st section, is not without difficulty....

...the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as...decision in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States where they apply." But this provision, it will be seen, does not embrace suits in the...

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...the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as...of the United States, in cases where they apply." * Therefore the established doctrine of our courts is, that we have no national common law; but, in...