 | Law - 1917 - 510 pages
...are also informed that congress in the very beginning purposely failed to provide a real system in the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding...in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty, in the district courts, but remitted the matter to the courts and left it with them to act upon the... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...ruling of that court. In Nudd v. Burrows, p. 426, the Federal Practice Act of 1872, assimilating " the practice, pleadings and forms, and modes of proceeding,...causes, other than equity and admiralty causes," in the Federal courts, "as near as may be" to those obtaining in the courts of the respective states, was... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 668 pages
...ought not to have been sustained. The act of 1872 (17 Stat. 197; Rev. Stat, sec. 914) providing that the practice, pleadings, and forms, and modes of proceeding in civil causes in the Circuit and District Courts shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, &c., of the Courts... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...established practice of the court. The act of 1872 (17 Stat. 197, Rev. Stat., sect. 914) providing that the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, in civil causes in the circuit and district courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, &c., in the... | |
 | Kenneth McIntosh - Constitutional history - 1877 - 208 pages
...at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply. It is enacted, too, that the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admirality causes in the diatrict and circuit courts, shall conform as near as may be to the practice... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 644 pages
...of June 1st, 1S72, (17 US Stat. at Large, 197, now § 914 of the Revised Statutes,) conforming the forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, " as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - Civil procedure - 1880 - 682 pages
...Miller agt. Kent. is nothing in the provisions of the Revised Statutes as to the conformity in practice and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes in the courts of the United States, to the practice and forms and modes of proceeding in tike causes in the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2060 pages
...delays in proceedings." Section 914, taken from the act of June 1, 1872, is as follows: "Sec. 914. The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other thau equity and admiralty causes, In the circuit and district courts, shall conform, as near as may... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1118 pages
...such a trial. The action, therefore, fell under the act of conformity, which requires the practice and modes of proceeding in civil causes other than equity and admiralty causes to conform as near as may be to the practice and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1144 pages
...Revised Statutes (Сотр. St § 1537), which requires conformity as near as may be in federal courts to the "practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes," has no application to criminal cases. In federal courts the legal sufficiency of an indictment should... | |
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The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes other than equity and admiralty causes in the circuit and district courts shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing... 
