Add to ORKGIt is often assumed that courts can acquire jurisdiction only by personal service to give jurisdiction in personam, or by a seizure to give jurisdiction in rem; but it is not so. The assumption is induced no doubt by the fact that in the ordinary common law actions jurisdiction is acquired in that way. Mr. Justice Field very distinctly pointed out in the case of Pennoyer v. Neff (1877), 95 U. S. 714, that it was not the fact that the land was not seized that rendered the judgment void. It was the fact that the land was not the res in litigation in the prior case that made the judgment void
During the nearly two decades since the Supreme Court recognized a bifurcated doctrine of personal j...
No personal judgment against a defendant is valid unless the court which renders it has first obtain...
To what extent may a state court, or a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction, assert in pe...
It is often assumed that courts can acquire jurisdiction only by personal service to give jurisdicti...
On March 6th, 1917, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of McDonald v. Mabee, reve...
In strict logic, the concept of the power of courts to deal in personam with controversies is said t...
The arid conceptionalism of the power theory of state-court jurisdiction derived from Pennoyer v. Ne...
Defendant, a resident of Utah, sued petitioner, a resident of California, to recover construction co...
A prime requisite of due process is, of course, that the court shall have jurisdiction of the subjec...
Pennoyer indeed is dead. The primitive ritual of service of process could not survive as a general s...
Garnishment is a proceeding provided by statutes found in every state, for the purpose of laying hol...
Although the usually proclaimed goals of the United States legal system are fair play and justice, ...
The ubiquitous and somewhat careless use of the term “jurisdictional” by courts has spawned confusio...
Personal jurisdiction doctrine as articulated by the Supreme Court is in disarray.A s a constitution...
Since Pennoyer v. Neff, holding that mere notice was an insufficient basis for in personam jurisdict...
During the nearly two decades since the Supreme Court recognized a bifurcated doctrine of personal j...
No personal judgment against a defendant is valid unless the court which renders it has first obtain...
To what extent may a state court, or a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction, assert in pe...
It is often assumed that courts can acquire jurisdiction only by personal service to give jurisdicti...
On March 6th, 1917, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of McDonald v. Mabee, reve...
In strict logic, the concept of the power of courts to deal in personam with controversies is said t...
The arid conceptionalism of the power theory of state-court jurisdiction derived from Pennoyer v. Ne...
Defendant, a resident of Utah, sued petitioner, a resident of California, to recover construction co...
A prime requisite of due process is, of course, that the court shall have jurisdiction of the subjec...
Pennoyer indeed is dead. The primitive ritual of service of process could not survive as a general s...
Garnishment is a proceeding provided by statutes found in every state, for the purpose of laying hol...
Although the usually proclaimed goals of the United States legal system are fair play and justice, ...
The ubiquitous and somewhat careless use of the term “jurisdictional” by courts has spawned confusio...
Personal jurisdiction doctrine as articulated by the Supreme Court is in disarray.A s a constitution...
Since Pennoyer v. Neff, holding that mere notice was an insufficient basis for in personam jurisdict...
During the nearly two decades since the Supreme Court recognized a bifurcated doctrine of personal j...
No personal judgment against a defendant is valid unless the court which renders it has first obtain...
To what extent may a state court, or a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction, assert in pe...