...Section 16 of the act of 1789 (Rev. Stat. § 723) provides that "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." In Baker v. Biddle, 1 Baldwin, 405, this...

...legislative declaration in the Judiciary Act of 1789, " That suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any...adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law," but also upon the intrinsic distinctions between the different jurisdictions of law and equity. In...

...section 16 of the judiciary act of 1789 it was declared that " Suits in equity shall not be sustainable in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." The same provision is re-enacted in section...

...section is to be interpreted specifically and not generically. " 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."' This statute regards an action in equity...

...declared by Congress, which thus defines its jurisdiction : " Suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case when a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law." Rev. Stats., sec. 723. Before a patentee...

...United States and defined their jurisdiction, it is enacted that "suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any...adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law." (Act of September 24, 1789, ch. 20, § 16, 1 Stat. 82; Rev. Stats. \ 723.) Five days later, on September...

...usual time. The clause was taken up of the Judiciary bill " that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a remedy may be had at law." Dr. Johnson rose first against the clause. Elsworth answered him, and...

...equity. The 16th section of the Judiciary act of 1789 enacted that such suits " shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any...plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law ; " and this prohibition is carried into the Revised Statutes. Sec. 723. It is declaratory of the rule...

...Law. — By § 723 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, suits in equity will 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. This section of the statute is merely declaratory,...

...away with the force of the law of Congress declaring that ' '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...