Local actions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 56 U.S. 233 - The Northern Indiana Railroad Company v. The Michigan Central Railroad Company · 1853Most cited · 103 citing opinions
ejectment and trespass quare clausum fregit
Wherever the jurisdiction of the person will enable the Circuit Court to give effect to its judgment or decree, jurisdiction may be exercised. But wherever the subject-matter in controversy is local, and lies beyond the limit of the district, no jurisdiction attaches to the Circuit Court, sitting within it. An action of ejectment cannot be maintained in the district of Michigan, for land in any other district. Nor can an action of trespass quare clausum fregit be prosecuted, where the act complained of was not done in the district. Both of these actions are local in their character, and must be prosecuted, where the process of the court can reach the locus in quo.
How often courts cite the case defining “Local actions”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Local actions” — 103 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.