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Revised Statutes, § 711 — 2d ed. (1878), pp. 134–135
Forty-Third Congress, Session I · Approved June 22, 1874
This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying, of the second edition of the Revised Statutes (1878), published under the Act of March 2, 1877, which gives the text as amended and corrected through 1877. Margin notes, case annotations and the revisers’ notes are not transcribed. In the text below, the brackets are the 2d edition’s own: bracketed italic words are the 1875 text struck out, and plain bracketed words are the words that replaced them.
1878 Revised Statutes, 2d ed., § 711 (PDF, 2 pages) (opens in a new tab) Unofficial transcription (PDF, 1 page) (opens in a new tab)
Sec. 711. The jurisdiction vested in the courts of the United States in the cases and proceedings hereinafter mentioned, shall be exclusive of the courts of the several States:
First. Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States.
Second. Of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred under the laws of the United States.
Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it.
Fourth. Of all seizures under the laws of the United States, on land or on waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.
Fifth. Of all cases arising under the patent-right or copyright laws of the United States.
Sixth. Of all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy.
Seventh. Of all controversies of a civil nature, where a State is a party, except between a State and its citizens, or between a State and citizens of other States, or aliens.
[Eighth. Of all suits or proceedings against embassadors, or other public ministers, or their domestics, or domestic servants, or against consuls or vice consuls.]