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The article discusses some new legal cases of the United States. In a suit to enforce a lien given by a State statute, for repairs to a vessel, held, that the transaction is maritime in its nature and the State courts have not jurisdiction. The Constitution of the United States, article 3, section 2, declares that " the judicial power shall extend to all cases in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction." An act of Congress provides that the district courts of the United States shall have-exclusive jurisdiction of such causes. Accordingly, the Supreme Court has since held that although the State legislatures may regulate the rights of material-men furnishing necessaries to vessels, so long as Congress does not interpose to regulate the subject, yet State law cannot take the contract out of the exclusive domain of admiralty jurisdiction.