useful and ornamental to gentlemen in every pursuit, and especially to those who are to assume places of public trust, and to take a share in the business and in the councils of our country. NEW YORK, November 17, 1827. NOTE BY THE AUTHOR. When the N. Y. Revised Statutes are cited in this work, the first edition, of 1829, is generally referred to; and if the last edition, of 1846, be referred to, it is cited as New York Revised Statutes, 3d edition; and if the citation of the 3d edition be by the page, the reference is to the new paging at the top of each leaf. Whenever I have had occasion to refer, in this new edition of the Commentaries, to any of the New York statutes, I have always cited from the 3d edition; but, in other respects, the reference to the 1st edition of the New York Revised Statutes remains undisturbed; and I have not thought it worth the trouble of altering that reference, inasmuch as the paging to the first edition of the statutes is preserved in the margin to the 3d edition. CONTENTS. LECTURE IL Of the Rights and Duties of Nations in a State of Peace 1. Right of Interference with other States - 2. Its Appellate Jurisdiction in Cases pending in State Courts 3. Its Powers in Cases of Mandamus 7. Its Appellate Jurisdiction to Matter appearing on the Record 8. Its Appellate Jurisdiction exists, though a State be a Party 3. The States cannot control the Exercise of Federal Power 4. Nor impair the Obligation of Contracts 5. Nor pass Naturalization Laws. 6. Nor tax National Banks or Stocks 7. Nor exercise Power over Ceded Places |