...Sec. 23. (11 USC § 46.) Jurisdiction of United States and State Courts a. The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies...law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings under this Act, between receivers and trustees as such and adverse claimants, concerning the property...

...read (before the amendment of February 5, 1903 (32 Stat at L. 797, chap. 487) as follows: "Sec. 23a. The United States circuit courts shall have jurisdiction...claimed by the trustees, in the same manner and to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted, and such controversies had...

...exception and operating to restrict the jurisdiction : "a. The United States circuit courts shall bave jurisdiction of all controversies at law and in equity,...claimed by the trustees, in the same manner and to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted, and such controversies had...

...later sustained this jurisdictional section of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898: "The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies...equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy, be4 Osborn might possibly be limited on the ground that a federal instrumentality, the Bank of the...

...Sec. 23. (11 USC § 46.) Jurisdiction of United States and State Courts a. The United States district courts shall have "jurisdiction of all controversies...law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings under this Act, between receivers and trustees as such and adverse claimants, concerning the property...

...so amended, le, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: " (a) The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies at law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedintjs in bankruptcy, between trustees as such and adverse claimants concerning the property...

...Bankrupt Act is headed '••! nri-xdietion of the I'nited Xtdtris ami titdte Court tt," and provides, (a), "The United States circuit courts shall have...equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy, l>etween tnistees and adverse claimants concerning the property acquired or claimed by the trustees,...

...property exempt by law. Section 23 (section 9007) confers jurisdiction on the United States Circuit Courts of all controversies at law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy between the trustee as such and adverse claimants concerning the property acquired or claimed by the trustee,...

...dismember the estate. 142 § 406. Jurisdiction; Statutory Provisions.—The bankruptcy act provides that "the United States circuit courts shall have jurisdiction...claimed by the trustees, in the same manner and to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted, and such controversies had...

...a case from one referee to another. SECTION 23. Jurisdiction of United States and State Courts. — (a) The United States circuit courts shall have jurisdiction...claimed by the trustees, in the same manner and to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted and such controversies had...