This was in contrast to the situation in the States, where civil procedure in actions at law ( i . e ., most lawsuits for monetary damages ) in U . S . federal courts was normally provided for by state law, by virtue of the Conformity Act of 1872, until the promulgation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 1938.
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A special Prize for four-oared crews without coxswains was offered at the regatta in 1869 when it was won by the Oxford Radleian Club and when Stewards'became a coxless race in 1873, Woodgate " won his moral victory, " the Rowing Almanack later recalled . " Nothing but defeating a railway in an action at law could have given him so much pleasure ."
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In the context of actions at law, the Process Act of 1789 was so poorly written that it forced a federal court sitting in a state to apply the common law rules of pleading and procedure that were in effect in the state " at the time " it joined the Union, regardless of whether the state had modified or revised its civil procedure system since.
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A special Prize for four-oared crews without coxswains was offered at the regatta in 1869 when it was won by the Oxford Radleian Club and when Stewards became a coxless race in 1873, Woodgate " won his moral victory, " the Rowing Almanack later recalled . " Nothing but defeating a railway in an action at law could have given him so much pleasure . "
