Durousseau v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the district court of the United States, for the district of Orleans. This was a suit brought by the United States Durousseau and others upon a bond, given in pursuance of the act of congress of December 22, 1807, usually called the embargo act.
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ERROR to the district court of the United States, for the district of Orleans. This was a suit brought by the United States Durousseau and others upon a bond, given in pursuance of the act of congress of December 22, 1807, usually called the embargo act. (Laws U. S. vol. 9. p. 7.) The bond bears date the 16th of May, 1808, and the condition is, that the goods therein mentioned should be “ relanded in the United States, at the port -of Charleston, or at some other port of the United States, the dangers of the seas excepted The proceedings in the court below are accdrding to the forms of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court, upon the question of jurisdiction, as follows:
This is the fiist of several writs of error to sundry judgments rendered by the court of the United .States for the territory of Orleans.
The attorney-general having moved to dismiss them, because no writ of error lies from this court to that in any case, or, if in .any case, not in such a case as this ; the jurisdiction of this court becomes the first subject-for consideration.
The act erecting Louisiana into two territories establishes a district court in the territory of Orleans, consisting of…
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