chancery receiver
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 280 U.S. 351 - Grant v. A. B. Leach & Co. · 1930Most cited · 84 citing opinions
Such a receiver has no extraterritorial power of official action; none which the court appointing him can confer, with authority to enable him to go into a foreign jurisdiction to take possession of the debtor's property; none which can give him, upon the principle of comity, a privilege to sue in a foreign court of another jurisdiction.
How often courts cite the cases defining “chancery receiver”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “chancery receiver” — 110 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1930–1933
The general rule undoubtedly is that an ordinary chancery receiver, having no other authority than that arising from his appointment as such, cannot as of right maintain an action in a state other than that in which he was appointed.
foreign jurisdiction rule