| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1004 pages
...early enactment by congress in the sixteenth section of the judiciary act, (Eev. St. § 723,) declaring "that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law," the rule laid down in Hayward v. Andrews is... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1200 pages
...TITLE — REMEDY AT LA\V. Under the judiciary act of 1T89, § 16, (Rev. St. US § 7¿3,) declaring that "suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy can be had at law," a bill to quiet title to lands against a person... | |
| Law - 1883 - 876 pages
...sits.5 The chancery jurisdiction thus conferred on the Federal courts has but the single limitation that " suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any cases where plain, adequate, and complete remedy can be had at law." Now, the jurisdiction of chancery... | |
| Law - 1883 - 572 pages
...the United States, founded not only upon the legislative declaration in the judiciary act of 1789, "that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any cuse where plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law," but also upon the intrinsic distinctions... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 756 pages
...or immunity under § 723, Rev. Stat., which declares that— "Suits in 229 US Opinion of the Court. equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts...adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." This section, however, by its own terms applies only to "courts of the United States;" and when afterwards... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1148 pages
...bas been incorporated in the Revised Statutes of the United States in section 723, in a declaration that: "Suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...United States in any case where a plain, adequate remedy may be had at law," — as is illustrated by the declaration of the plaintiffs' petition that... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 764 pages
...redress has been and still is open to the plaintiff, at law, for any fraud ; and the Judiciary Act provides, that " suits in equity shall not be sustained...the courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." (Act of September 29th, 1789, § 16 ; 1 Story,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 974 pages
...v. Lawrason, 5 Pet., 496;.D<ufe v. Irwin, 2 How., 383. The 16th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 provides, ' ' that suits in equity shall not be sustained...the courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate and complete remedy can be had at law." This is merely declaratory of the pre-existing... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 968 pages
...as declaratory of the common law, that the judiciary act of 1789, in its sixteenth section, declares -that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of; the United States in any case where adequate and complete remedy may be had at law.' " Oranil Chute v. Winrgur, 15 Wall. 375; Insurance... | |
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