28 USC § 2108 - Proof of amount in controversy

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title: "28 USC § 2108 - Proof of amount in controversy"
title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "2108"
section_name: "Proof of amount in controversy"
chapter_number: 133
chapter_name: "REVIEW—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "PROCEDURE"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 963.)"
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# § 2108. Proof of amount in controversy

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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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 963.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 231 (, ).

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.