Howard's Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 56William Gould & Son, 1879 - Civil procedure |
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Page 666 - ... for the payment to him of such sum as may, for any cause, be recovered against the defendant.
Page 207 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 9 - That nothing in this section shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several States under the laws thereof...
Page 205 - The distinction between actions at law and suits in equity, and the forms of all such actions and suits, heretofore existing, are abolished...
Page 205 - Judgment may be given for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defendants...
Page 11 - In case the alien applying to be admitted to citizenship has borne any hereditary title, or has been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came...
Page 2 - The deposition of a party to an action pending in a court of record or of a person who expects to be a party to an action about to be brought...
Page 205 - The plaintiff may unite in the same complaint several causes of action, whether they be such as have been heretofore denominated legal or equitable, or both, where they all arise out of, 1.
Page 294 - Such endorsement may contain a clause requiring such person to produce on such examination all books, papers and documents in his possession, or under his control, relating to the subject of such examination.
Page 207 - States,' in those of equity and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity and to courts of admiralty respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law...