FEDERAL PRACTICE:

CONSISTING OF THE

Statutes of the United States

RELATING TO THE

ORGANIZATION, JURISDICTION, PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
OF THE FEDERAL COURTS, AND THE RULES

OF SAID COURTS,

WITH

FULL NOTES OF THE DECISIONS RELATING THERETO.

BY

WM. E. MILLER,

Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa, author of " Pleading and Practice," etc.,

AND

GEORGE W. FIELD,

Author of "A Treatise on the Law of Damages"; "A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations" eto., eto.

DES MOINES :
MILLS & COMPANY, LAW PUBLISHERS.

1881.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-one,

BY MILLS & COMPANY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

MILLS & COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS,

DES MOINES, IOWA.

PREFACE.

This volume contains the Judiciary Statutes of the United States and the Rules of the Supreme Court regulating the practice and procedure in the various federal courts, with full notes of the decisions of those courts construing such Statutes and Rules.

It also contains a register of all the judges, district attorneys, marshals, and clerks of the United States Courts.

The authors entered upon the preparation of the work with the conviction that something of the kind was much needed by the profession, and they cherish the hope that it will be found convenient and useful to the Bench and the Bar of this

country.

Des Moines, July 4, 1881.