 | William Graydon - 1803 - 730 pages
...respectively on ujotion as aforesaid, to give judgment against him or her by default. 16. SECT, XVI. Suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of...the. courts of the united states, in any case where plain, adequate and complete remedy maybe had at law. 17. SKCT. XVII- AH the said courts of the uhited... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant - 1822 - 450 pages
...equity jurisdiction, except as to injunctions. By the 16th section of the act of September 24th, 1781), suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of...the Courts of the United States, in any case where plain adequate and complete remedy may be had at law. This, it seems, was the rule independently of... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 816 pages
...as aforesaid, to give judgment against him or her by default.(o) Ser. 16. And be it further enacted, 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.(6) The act of Congress authorizing the writ... | |
 | GEO. TUCKER BISPHAM - 1874 - 610 pages
...under their authority. This jurisdiction, as explained in the judiciary act, is not to be exercised in either of the courts of the United States in any...plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law ;3 but this enactment is declaratory merely of the existing law. 4 It has also been said that the practice... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 388 pages
...if it is of a criminal nature, in the infliction of punishment on the party found guilty. SKC. 723. Suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts "When suits or of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete e <l". lt ï.... | |
 | William Maclay - 1880 - 392 pages
...July 1,1789. Attended at the Hall at the usual time. The clause was taken up, of the judiciary bill, " that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States, in any case where a remedy may be had at law. Dr. Johnson rose first against the clause. Ellsworth answered him, and the... | |
 | William Maclay - 1880 - 394 pages
...July 1,1789. Attended at the Hall at the usual time. The clause was taken up, of the judiciary bill, "that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States, in any case where a remedy may be had at law. Dr. Johnson rose first against the clause. Ellsworth answered him, and the... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis - 1880 - 362 pages
...conditions, which immediately follow, exist. In the sixteenth section of the same act is this provision: "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." This sixteenth section has been the subject... | |
 | 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...the courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law," but also upon the intrinsic distinctions between,... | |
 | 1883 - 952 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... | |
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That suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." This explicit prohibition, continued in section 723 of the Revised Statutes and section... 
