 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 str.
...comprehensive one, and is understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice which the law affords him. Ibid. 464. 14. The words " final judgment," in the 25th section of the judiciary act, must be understood... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - 646 str.
...comprehensive one, and is understood to apply to any proceeding in ;> court of justice, by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice,...affords him. The modes of proceeding may be various hut if a right is litigated between parties in a court of justice, the proceeding by which the decision... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 str.
...comprehensive one, and is understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of justice, by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice, which the law affords1. him. The modes of proceeding may be various, but if a right is litigated between parties... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - 628 str.
...understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of .justice, by which an individual pursues i hat remedy in a court of justice, which the law affords...which the decision of the court is sought, is a suit. The question between the parties, is precisely the fame as it would hm. tiem in a writ of replevin,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1838 - 850 str.
...the late Chief Justice, who, in SJd Peters,' 464, says, irt delivering the opinion of the Court, " if a right is litigated between parties in a court...which the decision of the court is sought, is a suit" It is theiV unquestionably true, that the court, which has jurisdiction over all [Kendall v. The United... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 str.
...very comprehensive one, and is understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of justice by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice...which the decision of the court is sought is a suit. The question between the parties is precisely the same as it would have been in a writ of replevin,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1852 - 740 str.
...says Chief Justice Marshall, " is litigated between parties in a court of justice, the proceedings by which the decision of the court is sought, is a suit." ( Weston v. The City of Charleston, 2 Pet. R. 464.) Suit and action are often synonymous ; though an... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 str.
...comprehensive one ; and is understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of justice, by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice...may be various ; but if a right is litigated between the parties in a court of justice, the proceeding by which the decision of the court is sought is a... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 684 str.
...the law affords him. The modes of proceeding may be various ; but if a right is litigated between the parties in a Court of justice, the proceeding by which the decision of the Court is nought, is a suit." We entirely concur in the definition thus given of the meaning of the word "suit,"... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 536 str.
...comprehensive one, and is understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of justice, by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice,...which the decision of the court is sought, is a suit. The question between the parties, is precisely the same as it would have been in a writ of replevin,... | |
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The term is certainly a very comprehensive one, and is understood to apply to any proceeding in a court of justice by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice which the law affords him. The modes of proceeding may be various, but... 
