''Penhallow v. Doane's Administrators'', 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 54 (1795), was a

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case about

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causes, holding that federal district courts have the powers formerly granted to the

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under the Congress of the Articles of Confederation. In the case:

it was held that the Congress under the
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had power to erect a court of appeals in prize causes, that its decrees were conclusive, and that the district courts of the United States created under the Constitution have, as courts of admiralty, power to carry into effect the decrees of the former court of appeals in prize causes erected by the Congress of the Confederation.''Judicial settlement of controversies between states of the American union: cases decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 1'' (Oxford University Press, 1918), page 341, footnote

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