| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 36 pages
...United States shall prescribe by general rules for the District Courts of the United States and for the District of Columbia the forms of process, writs,...the practice and procedure in civil actions at law ; and Whereas it is further provided by said Act of June 19, 1984, chapter 651, that the said rules... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 36 pages
...United States shall prescribe by general rules for the District Courts of the United States and for the District of Columbia the forms of process, writs,...the practice and procedure in civil actions at law ; and Whereas it is further provided by said Act of June 19, 1934, chapter 651, that the said rules... | |
| United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the judiciary - 1938 - 174 pages
...Congress of June 19 aforesaid only authorized the Supreme Court to prescribe by general rules for the district courts of the United States and for the courts of the District of Columbia — This, of course, according to the Court's holding would preclude it from passing on any question... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 58 pages
...ordinary incidents of such trial preserved in the Constitution and further specifically requires that such rules "shall neither abridge, enlarge, nor modify the substantive rights of any litigant" so far as jury actions are concerned. The "trial by jury" is a product of the common law as it developed... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1988 - 184 pages
...this question: The act of June 19, 1934, under which these rules were promulgated provides thatSaid rules shall neither abridge, enlarge, nor modify the substantive rights of any litigant. Do you think that you can reconcile what you said with that provision of the act of June 19, 1934?... | |
| Texas Bar Association - 1927 - 318 pages
...Court of the United States to prescribe by general rules for the district court of the United States "the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions and the practice and procedure in actions at law." It proposes to abandon the system dating from the Judiciary Act of 1789, by which... | |
| Guam, John A. Bohn - 1970 - 528 pages
...§ 123. Rules of procedure. The Judicial Council shall have the power to prescribe by general rules, the forms of process, writs, pleadings and motions, and the practice and procedure of the courts of Guam in both civil and criminal actions, and appeals therein, and the practice and... | |
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