 '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," or the constitutional right of parties in actions at law to a trial by a jury.  The Federal Reporter - Page 6071904Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1858 - 670 pages
...the jurisdiction of the equity courts of the United States is, that no suit can be sustained in them, where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. The court has said : "It is not enough that there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 960 pages
...lie said: "In the courts of the United States it is & guiding rule that a bill in equity does not lie in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. • • • The decisions of the state courts in cases of this kind are in conflict, and we need not... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 916 pages
...the jurisdiction of the equity courts of the United States is, that no suit can be sustained in them, where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law. The court has said: " It is not enough that there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate,... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1885 - 768 pages
...ordinary remedies of a court of law. " No suit can be sustained in the equity courts of the United States, where, a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." Barber v. Barber, 21 Howard, 591. "Where the remedy at law is complete and adequate an injunction will... | |
 | Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait - Land titles - 1886 - 956 pages
...courts entirely distinct from their common law jurisdiction, but the Eevised Statutes expressly provide that " suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." 8 In Steam Stone Cutter Co. v. Jones,4 a bill in equity was filed 1 ioi US 260. 'In Wilcox v. Jackson,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 642 pages
...because the plaintiff has an adequate remedy at law. It is provided by § 723 of the Revised Statutes, that " suits in equity shall not be sustained in either...plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." If there is such a remedy at law, when the defendant is brought into the Court of equity ; if there... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 968 pages
...at common law, and which, by express statute, declares that suits in equity shall not be sustained in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law, as has always heretofore been considered the case in cases of libel and slander, we do not think that... | |
 | Dugald J. Bannatyne - New York (State) - 1887 - 652 pages
...criminal nature, in the infliction of punishment on the party found guilty. Suits in equity are not sustained in either of the courts of the United States...plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law. In the trial of actions at law, the United States courts may, on motion and due notice thereof, require... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 988 pages
...cases of common law, and which by express statute declares that suits in equity shall not be sustained in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law, as has always heretofore been considered the case in causes of libel and slander, we do not think we... | |
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