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The
Federal Equity Rules
were court rules that, until 1938, governed
civil procedure
in suits of
equity
in
federal courts
.
The Rules were established by the
United States Supreme Court
which was authorized by the
United States Congress
to make rules governing the form of
mesne process
, form and mode of proceeding in suits of equity
[1]
and the power to proscribe form of process, mode of framing and filing of proceedings or pleading and generally regulate the whole process of suits in equity
[2]
Sets of rules were promulgated in 1822, 1842 (amended in 1850, 1854, 1861, 1864, 1869, 1871, 1875, 1879, 1882, 1890, 1892, 1893 and 1894),
[3]
and in 1912 (amended in 1924, 1930 and 1932).
[4]
The 1912 Rules were superseded in 1938 by the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
which were largely based on the 1912 Rules.
[5]
[6]
References
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Revised Statutes
sec.913, Act of 8 May 1792 sec.2 1
Stat.
276
, Act of 15 May 1828 sec.2 4
Stat.
278
,
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Revised Statutes sec. 917, Act of 23 Aug. 1848 sec 6 5
Stat.
518
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Hopkins, James Love (1913).
The New Federal Equity Rules
. The W.H. Anderson company.
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Twenty Years Under Federal Equity Rules, Wallace R. Lane,
Harvard Law Review
Vol.46 No.4 (Feb. 1933) pp.638-675
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"Federal Rules of Civil Procedure"
.
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How Equity Conquered the Common Law: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Stephen N. Subrin,
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Vol.135 No. 4 (April 1987) pp.909-1002