Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... nor shall any district or circuit court have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents... "
The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law in the State of New ... - Page 256
by Elijah Paine - 1830
Full view - About this book

An Abridgement of the Laws of the United States: Or, A Complete Digest of ...

William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted...to recover the said contents if no assignment had Ix-i/n made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange. And the circuit courts shall also have appellate...
Full view - About this book

Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the ..., Volume 4

Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1807 - 532 pages
...Circuit Court " shall have I^T-UJ " cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promis* " sory note, or other chose in action, in favour of an assignee,...made, " except in cases of foreign bills of exchange." Ingersoll, for the plaintiff in error, argued, that unless it was averred upon the record, that the...
Full view - About this book

The Historical Register of the United States, Volume 1

Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 422 pages
...whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ; nor can any district or circuit court have cognizance of any...have been prosecuted in such court to recover the contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange. The circuit...
Full view - About this book

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 6

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 738 pages
...that interpretation should be given which is most favourable to the jurisdiction. The words are, " Nor shall any District, or Circuit Court, have cognizance...contents, if no assignment had been made, except in case of foreign bills of exchange." These words necessarily import a recovery by an assignee, claiming...
Full view - About this book

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...a note payable to a citizen of the State. The words of the Judiciary Act, sec- 1824., tion 11. are, "nor shall any District or Circuit Court have cognizance...made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange." This is a limitation on the jurisdiction conferred by the JudicaryAct. It was apprehended that bonds...
Full view - About this book

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 2

United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...declares, that no district or circuit court shall have " cognizance of [Buckner rs. Finley & Van Lear.] any suit to recover the contents of any promissory...prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents, if noassignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange." The only question is, whether...
Full view - About this book

The American Jurist, Volume 3

Law - 1830 - 442 pages
...cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee ; unless a suit might have been prosecuted...made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.' The action was brought in the Circuit Court for Maryland district by a citizen of New York, as the...
Full view - About this book

The American Almanac and Respository of useful knowledge for the year 1830

Gray and Bowen - 1831 - 364 pages
...cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted...made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange. The Circuit Courts have appellate jurisdiction from final decrees and judgments of the District Courts...
Full view - About this book

The American Annual Register, Part 2

Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favour of an assignee, unless a suit might tiave been prosecuted in such court to recover the said...contents, if no assignment had been made, except in cases o( foreign bills of exchange." The only question is, whether the kill on which the suit is founded,...
Full view - About this book

A National Calendar, for ..., Volume 7; Volume 10

Peter Force - Almanacs, American - 1832 - 374 pages
...recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unkss a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said content» if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange. The Circuit...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF