ancillary suit
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Definitions from Case Law
From 65 U.S. 450 - Freeman v. Howe · 1860Most cited · 535 citing opinions
a bill filed on the equity side of the court to restrain or regulate judgments or suits at law in the same court, and thereby prevent injustice, or an inequitable advantage under mesne or final process, is not an original suit, but ancillary and dependent, supplementary merely to the original suit, out of which it had arisen, and is maintained without reference to the citizenship or residence of the parties