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Suitors' fee fund

Suitors' fee fund, a fund in the Court of Chancery into

Saving-to-suitor clause, means a federal statutory provisions that allows a party to bring suit in either State or Federal Court...

suitor 1 : a party to a suit 2 : one

Suiter, or suitor, one that sues; a petitioner; a suppliant; a wooer.

saving to suitors clause :a clause in federal law found at title 28

court cannot be held without at least two freeholders as suitors. If there be not two suitors, the manor becomes a

assembled but once a year. The freehold tenants alone were suitors to the Court-baron; and it was essential to the existence

record the proceedings of both. In the court baron the suitors are judges. In the customary court the suitors are assistants

Office, was a department of the Court of Chancery. The suitor's account there is dis-continued by 15 & 16 Vict. c.

deal with the same subject-matter at the choice of the suitor. Inequity, the jurisdiction was concurrent where no complete relief was