An Outline of the Equity Pleading and Practice: With Forms, and the Federal Equity Rules, Prepared for the Use of the Students of the Law School of the University of Virginia - Couverture souple
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Preface To First Edition This small volume is I he result of many years of effort to collect the fundamental principles of the Equity Pleading and Practice for the use of the authors students in class-room instructior. The topic is one that can successfully be taught to students only by confining the instruction chiefly to the procedure of some particular jurisdiction. Numerous attempts to use the larger well-known texts in the class-room have proved hopeless failures. The author has therefore drawn very freely upon the system of procedure as it exists in Virginia, where the procedure at law and in equity is still almost as distinct as when Lord Bacon occupied the woolsack and where the equity procedure probably conforms more nearly to that of Bacon sday than that .of any American state. In the treatment of the subject of Receivers, free use has been made of Mr. High sscholarly treatise, for which due acknowledgment is made. I f, in so elementary a work, the subject of Receiverships seems overstressed in comparison with the briefer treatment of other topics of equal or greater importance, the explanation is that it was found impracticable to handle the subject in less compass, even in most elementary fashion. Detailed reference is made throughout to the new Federal Equity Rules and these rules have been reproduced in full in the A ppendix. It is hoped that the complete record of a chancery suit, as exhibited in the A ppendix, may assist the student in visualizing the actual procedure in court, and in cultivating a closer acquaintance with those forms which he is expected as a practitioner to have at his fingers ends. In order to fulfill its primary end as a guide to the student, through what seems to the average undergraduate a dull and uninviting territory, the value of the work to the experienced practitioner has been sacrificed, by the omission of many mi
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