The acquisition would have required a substantial rights issue.
"The defendants' substantial rights were affected," he wrote.
19 Misjoinder affects "substantial rights," and should lead to reversal.
Plainly enough, his substantial rights would not have been affected.
Even on my view of this case, respondents retain substantial rights over their articles.
'A man may not barter away his life or his freedom, or his substantial rights.
Rule 52(a) referred to "[a]ny error, defect, irregularity or variance which does not affect substantial rights"; the 1949 statute referred to "errors or defects which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties". 28 U.S.C. 2111.
As the majority points out, both define harmless error in terms of whether a violation affects "substantial rights". 8 Since this Court had already made clear that misjoinder affected "substantial rights," McElroy, 164 U.S. 76, 17 S.Ct.
A society that grants substantial rights to its citizens may be less willing to accord those rights to strangers.
These serfs had substantial rights in Lozi law, within a social hierarchy of aristocrats, commoners, and serfs.
31, 41 L.Ed. 355 (1896), that joinder is one of these "substantial rights," so that misjoinder is per se reversible.
