| William Edward Miller - 1881 - 728 sider
...May, 1870, c. 114, s. 18, v. 16, p. 144. SEC. 723. When suits of equity may be maintained. • — Suits, in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. General principles of common law and equity.—... | |
| John Norton Pomeroy - 1881 - 740 sider
...by the constitution, and in a number of specified cases arising under statutes of Congress. § 723: "Suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any case whore a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. " These provisions formed §3 1 1 and... | |
| Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1882 - 718 sider
...which is not sustained by proof? Can he have a decree under such circumstances for the legal matter? " 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 ma}r be had at law." (ES, sec. 723.) It is, also, an established... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1004 sider
...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...adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law," the rule laid down in Hayward v. Andrews is entitled to special consideration from the courts of the... | |
| United States. Patent Office - 1883 - 616 sider
...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...adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law," but also upon the intrinsic distinctions between the different jurisdictions of law and equity. In... | |
| 1891 - 1200 sider
...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...any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy can be had at law," a bill to quiet title to lands against a person in possession cannot be sustained... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 1066 sider
...section of the judiciary act of 1789, which is carried into the Revised Statutes as section 723, declares that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. The allegations as to the Illegality of the... | |
| 1897 - 1036 sider
...affirming in this respect the general doctrine in respect to the Jurisdiction of courts of equity, is that "suits In equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." This general proposition has been affirmed... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - 1883 - 636 sider
...disclosing a necessity for resorting to a court of equity. It is provided by statute of the United States' that "suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." This is merely declaratory of the pre-existing... | |
| 1888 - 1462 sider
...be properly rendered against the defendants? Osborn v. Bank, 9 Wheat. 738, 858. The statute provides that "suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." But if one of those courts should render... | |
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