Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial ProcedureRelease 119-102
§2108 Proof of Amount in Controversy
Title 28 › PART V — PROCEDURE › CHAPTER 133 — REVIEW—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 2108
Summary
Lets an appeals court establish the amount in dispute by a party’s sworn statement or by other reliable evidence when the record doesn’t show it.
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Title 28, §2108
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Where the power of any court of appeals to review a case depends upon the amount or value in controversy, such amount or value, if not otherwise satisfactorily disclosed upon the record, may be shown and ascertained by the oath of a party to the case or by other competent evidence.
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Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 231 (Feb. 13, 1925, ch. 229, § 9, 43 Stat. 941). Words “or in the Supreme Court” were omitted. section 7 of the 1925 act containing such words related to review by the Supreme Court of the United States of decisions of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands and designated a certain jurisdictional amount. Such section 7 has now become obsolete, in view of the recognition of the independence of the Philippines, title 48 U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 1240, Territories and Insular Possessions, and there is no other case wherein the power of the Supreme Court to review depends on the amount or value in controversy.
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28 U.S.C. § 2108
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102