Conframp v. Bunel

The Court were clearly of opinion, that the parties were bound by the law of the 6th of September 1802 ; that the present case was within the law ; and that the suspension of the law applied as well to the commencement of the suit, as to the issuing of an execution. The rule made absolute. (a) Footnotes [(a)] The defendant’s counsel, proceeding on the grounds above stated, did not make, on this preliminary question, the objection, that the circuit court has no jurisdiction of a cause, in which both parties are aliens; an objection that has, repeatedly, been adjudged to be fatal