...24th, 1789, known as the judiciary act, and provides that the district courts of the United States " shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil...maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under the laws of impost, navigation, or trade, of the United States, where the seizures Stewart vs. Hurry....

...judicial power, among the several courts of the union, it is expressly declared, that the District Court " shall have exclusive original "cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime juris" diction" 1 Vol. p. 53. s. 9. .Now, if it shall ever appear, that the legislative,,...

...and the present case? By the ninth section of the judiciary act, this court has jurisdiction of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade, where the seizures are made within their respective districts, either on land or water, as well as...

...district courts, in addition to other powers therein mentioned, (and by subsequent acts, extended) shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. Hence it acts both as an instance and prize court, and its authority to do so...

...establish the judicial con ts of the United States, which confers, on the district courts, jurisdiction of all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade of the United States, when the seizures are made on waiers which are navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons...

...establish the judicial courts of the United States, which confers, on the district courts, jurisdiction of all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade of the United States, when the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons...

...exclusive original cognisance of all civil causes of admiralty and .maritime jurisdiction, including seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade, of the United States." It is said prize or no prize is a question of military, not of a civil nature. But I find no such distinction...

...exception must be admitted. 1 he act to establish the judicial courts provides, that the district court " shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil...seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade, where the seizures are made on waters navigable from the sea, &.c." Perhaps this act need not necessarily...

....admiralty and marixMASSACHUSETTS, De Lovio rs. Boit. lime jurisdiclion, including all seizures under lams of impost, navigation or trade, of the United States, where the seizures are made on maters navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen; within their respective districts,...

...to establish the judicial courts provides, that the distiict court " shall have exclusive origipal cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, Including all seizures under laws qf impost, naviga- . tion or trade, where the seizures are made on waters navigable from the sea, &c."...