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A TREATISE
ON
Suits in. Chancery:
SETTING FORTH
THE PRINCIPLES, PLEADINGS, PRACTICE, PROOFS AND PROCESSES
OF
THE JURISPRUDENCE OF EQUITY;
AND GIVING
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIVE FORMS
OF
PLEADINGS, WRITS, ORDERS, REPORTS, DECREES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS IN SUITS IN CHANCERY
FROM THEIR BEGINNING TO THEIR ENDING;
BESIDES MANY PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
FOR
SOLICITORS AND MASTERS.
Cursus Curies est Lex Curia.
HENRY R. GIBSON, A.M., LL.D.,
CHANCELLOR OF THE SECOND CHANCERY DIVISION
OF TENNESSEE
SECOND EDITION:
REVISED AND ENLARGED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
KNOXVIIXE, TENN.:
GAUT-OGDEN CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year, 1907, by
HENRY R. GIBSON,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO >
MY WIFE,
FRANCES REED GIBSON,
THIS BOOK
IS
DEDICATED,
AS
a to;ken of my appreciation
OF
HER SYMPATHY AND ASSISTANCE
DURING
ITS. PREPARATION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
While there is a general family resemblance between the systems of jurisprudence prevalent in the various States of the Union, the differences and peculiarities in their system…