This case involves the very delicate and important inquiry, whether an American citizen can
assert, in an American court, a title to an armed national vessel, found within the waters of the …

The ground of the objection would seem to have been, that the royal charter had declared that
the grantees should hold of the king as tenants in capite, and that it proceeded to declare that …

It is argued that this act provides only for the admission of such records as evidence, but does
not declare the effect of such evidence when admitted. This argument cannot be supported, The …

The remnant of the tribe of Delaware Indians, previous to the 20th February, 1758, had claims
to a considerable portion of lands in New Jersey, to extinguish which became an object with …

This is an appeal from a decision of the district Court of Orleans, on a libel preferred against the
goods in question, under the non-intercourse acts of March 1st, 1809, and May 1st, 1810 …

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland, affirming a
judgment of the district Court, which condemned the cargo of the Wendell, as being forfeited …

I am instructed to deliver the opinion of the Court in this case. It comes up on a division of opinion
in the Circuit Court of Ohio, upon a motion for a mandamus to the register of the land office, at …

This was a suit instituted by the Plaintiffs in the Circuit Court of the United States for the County
of Washington, in which they claim freedom. On the trial of the issue certain depositions were …

This is a suit in Chancery instituted for the purpose of obtaining from the Defendants, payment
of certain bills of exchange drawn by Jonathan Russell, an agent of Robert Murray & Co. and …

As the argument on the first exception has proceeded upon the ground, that the agreement of
1804 was completely executed and performed, and the objection relates only to a supposed …