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Amendments To The Federal Rules: The Function Of A Continuing Rules Committee, Charles A. Wright
Amendments To The Federal Rules: The Function Of A Continuing Rules Committee, Charles A. Wright
Vanderbilt Law Review
No development in American procedural history in the last century has exceeded in importance the adoption by the United States Supreme Court in 1938 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These rules, the product of a distinguished Advisory Committee, introduced a system and a philosophy differing as markedly from the code pleading then in vogue as code pleading, in its day, had differed from common-law pleading. This new system has worked well in the federal courts, so well indeed as to stimulate a reexamination of procedure in many of the states, with nearly a dozen jurisdiction shaving already adopted …
Jurisdiction Of United States District Courts In Multiple-Claim Cases, Thomas F. Green Jr.
Jurisdiction Of United States District Courts In Multiple-Claim Cases, Thomas F. Green Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The jurisdictional problem peculiar to a case which involves more than one claim is: Shall the court entertain the entire action when it would have jurisdiction of one or more of the claims, but not all, if they were sued separately?' The application of this question to the United States district courts raises conflicting considerations. On the one hand is the fact that most of the claims which would not be within federal jurisdiction if sued alone, present questions of state rather than federal law. In general the more appropriate tribunals to deal with such questions in the first instance …
Suits Between States In The Supreme Court, William S. Barnes
Suits Between States In The Supreme Court, William S. Barnes
Vanderbilt Law Review
A study of contemporary procedure and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is a prerequisite of any plans for the expansion of the business of the World Court in the future. The present emphasis on international organization may lead to new legal problems in much the same manner as the growth of federal power has done in this country in the last quarter-century. This paper will discuss only those cases in which an opinion was rendered, omitting the admittedly significant memorandum reports for lack of space. Due to the complicated and detailed nature of many of the decrees, analysis of the …
The Place Of The Federal Rules In The Teaching Of Procedure, Delmar Karlen
The Place Of The Federal Rules In The Teaching Of Procedure, Delmar Karlen
Vanderbilt Law Review
If there is any proposition upon which teachers of procedure seem to agree it is that the Federal Rules ought to be a focal point of interest in the study of their subject. Most casebooks on general procedure published in recent years emphasize their concentration upon the Federal Rules: Vanderbilt's Cases on Modern Procedure and Judicial Administration, Field and Kaplan's Materials on Civil Procedure, Brown, Vestal and Ladd's Cases and Materials on Pleading and Procedure, to mention only a few. And when older casebooks, like Scott and Simpson's Cases and Other Materials on Civil Procedure or Clark's Cases on Modern …
Jury Trial In Chancery Court In Tennessee, Frank C. Ingraham
Jury Trial In Chancery Court In Tennessee, Frank C. Ingraham
Vanderbilt Law Review
Tennessee has since 1827 maintained, in some degree, a separate court of equity, presided over by a chancellor. Though most states have abolished the procedural distinction between cases in law and suits in equity, Tennessee still retains this dichotomy in its court system. Prior to 1827 law and equity were dispensed in Tennessee by a single court of general jurisdiction, the Superior Court of Law. This practice grew out of the North Carolina Act of 1782 and the continuation of that Act by the First Territorial Legislature in 1794, both of which gave equity jurisdiction to the Superior Court of …