...contents of any promissory note in favor of any assignee unless such suit might have been prosecuted hi such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made." The contention of plaintiff necessarily involves the assumption that, had the National Bank of Wilmington...

...referred to suits 'founded on contract,' but the act of 1SS7 restored tho words of the act of 178.0, 'to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action.' and we do not think that the words 'if such instrument be payable to bearer and be not made by any...

...instrument be payable to bearer and be not made by nn> corporation, unless such suit might have boon prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment or transfer had been made." This is substantially the language of the act of 1789, under which the...

...substantial right, and to that extent defeating justice. This is not a suit to recover the contents of a promissory note or other chose in action in favor of an assignee. The main object of the suit is to recover $ 18,000 which the plaintiff claims to be due to him for...

...provided: "Nor shall any district or circuit court have eognizance of any suit to recover the contenta of any promissory note or other chose in action in...the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in case« of foreign bills of exchange." In Sere v. Pilot, 6 Cranch, 332, 3 L. ed. 240, the...

...shall any Circuit or District Court have cognizance of any suit, except upon foreign bills of exchange, to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of any assignee, or of any subsequent holder if such instrument be payable to bearer and be not made by...

...assignees or transferees except over — First, suits upon foreign bills of exchange; second, suits that might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment or transfer had been made; third, suits upon choses in action payable to bearer and made by a corporation."...

...declares that they shall not " Have cognizance of any suit founded on contract in favor of an assignée, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover thereon if no assignment had been made, except in cases of promissory notes negotiable by the law merchant...

...section of the judiciary act of 1789 declares that no district or circuit court shall "have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory...have been prosecuted in such court to recover the contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange." 1 Stat. 78;...

...provides: "Nor shall any circuit or district court have cognizance of any suit founded on contracts In favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover thereon if no assignment had been made, except in cases of promissory notes negotiable by the law merchant,...