 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1838 - 850 pages
...further relief. Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject matter in controversy between parties to a suit ; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them. An objection to jurisdiction, on the ground of exemption 1'roir. the process of the court in which... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...704. 3/6.91. Jurisdiction is the power to hear and detetmine the subject matter in controversy between parties to a suit ; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them. — Rhode Island v. Mass., 12 Peters' SC Reports, 657. 2. How is jurisdiction primarily divided 1 Into... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...to exercise the jurisdiction. Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject-matter in controversy between the parties to a suit; to adjudicate...judicial power over them. The question is, whether on Ifee case before the court their action is judicial or extra-judicial; with or without the authority... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Philip Loring Spooner, Abram Daniel Smith, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 604 pages
...jurisdiction. Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject matter in controversy between parties to a suit, to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over th-m. The question is, whether on the case before a court, their action Is judicial or extra-judicial,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...further relief. Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject matter in controversy between parties to a suit; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them. V. SEARIQHT vs. STOCKTON AND STOKES. Reported in Howard's Reports, Vol. III., year 1845. Under the... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, John Wesley Shepherd - Alabama - 1864 - 806 pages
...Baldwin said, "Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject-matter ic controversy between parties to a suit; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them." Now, it seems to me to be clear beyond all question, that the power, or rather the absence of power,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 636 pages
...said : " Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject matter in controversy between parties to a suit ; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them. * * * An objection to jurisdiction on the ground of exemption from the process of the Court in which... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Samuel Townsend Douglass - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 598 pages
...718), that "jurisdiction ia the power to hear and determine the subject matter in controversy between parties to a suit ; to adjudicate, or exercise any judicial power over them." And again : " If the law confers the power to render a judgment or decree, then the court has jurisdiction... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - National banks (U.S.) - 1878 - 1018 pages
...there said: " Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subjectmatter in controversy between parties to a suit, to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them. * * * An objection to jurisdiction on the ground of exemption from the process of the court in which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1262 pages
...Is said: "Jurisdiction Is the power to hear and determine the subject-matter in controversy between parties to a suit, to adjudicate or exercise any Judicial...case before the court their action is judicial or extrajuiliclal, with or without the authority of law to render a judgment or decree upon the rights... | |
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... authority of law, to render a judgment or decree upon the rights of the litigant parties. If the law confers the power to render a judgment or decree, then the court has jurisdiction... 
