 | William Maclay - United States - 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... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis - Courts - 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...commencement of the suit." By the sixteenth section of the judiciary act of 1789 (l Stat. 82) it was enacted that suits in equity "shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case when plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law"; thus emphasizing and making obligatory... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1058 pages
...(36 Stat. 1163 [Comp. St. § 1244]) declaring: "Suits in equity shall not be sustained in any court of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." Section 7 of the Nevada Tax Commission Act in force in 1914 (St. 1913, c. 134), and sections 3657-3664,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 2094 pages
..."The sixteenth section of the judiciary act of September 24, 1789, 1 Stat. 82, enacted that such suits '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' ; and this prohibition is carried into the Revised... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1038 pages
...United States provide : "See. 723. Suits in equity shall not be sustained in any of the courts of tue United States, in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." [US Сотр. St. 1901, p. 583.] In New York Guaranty Co. v. Memphis Water Co., 107 US 214, 2 Sup.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1120 pages
...court have appealed to the provision of the judiciary act that "suits in equity shall not be sustained in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law" (Act Sept. 24, 1789, c. 20, § 16, 1 Stat. 82 [US Comp. St. 1901, p. 583]), to say that the adequate... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1912 pages
...between these powers beyond misapprehension, it is provided 'that suits in equity shall not be maintained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law,' at the same time affirming and separating... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 2060 pages
...the power to dispense with the ancient rule of equity jurisdiction which prohibits suits in equity where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. An inspection of the complaint fails to disclose a single ground of equitable jurisdiction. Reduced... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 2042 pages
...opinion of the court. Suits in equity cannot be sustained in either of the courts of the United States where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. Rev. St. US § 723. This section of the judiciary act of 1789 was merely declaratory of existing law.... | |
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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. 
