suits at common law
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From 396 U.S. 531 - Ross v. Bernhard · 1970Most cited · 2,391 citing opinions
not merely suits, which the common law recognized among its old and settled proceedings, but suits in which legal rights were to be ascertained and determined, in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone were recognized, and equitable remedies were administered