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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 …