Proceedings in equity, referred to in text, were abolished by the adoption of rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, set out in the Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, which provided that “there shall be one form of action to be known as ‘civil action’ ”.

2018—Pub. L. 115–270 substituted “for not more than 8 additional years,” for “once but not longer than two additional years” in second sentence.