The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery: Comprising Its Rise, Progress, and Final Establishment, to which is Prefixed, with a View to the Elucidation of the Main Subject, a Concise Account of the Leading Doctrines of the Common Law and of the Course of Procedure in the Courts of Common Law in Regard to Civil Rights ; with an Attempt to Trace Them to Their Sources ; and in which the Various Alterations Made by the Legislature Down to the Present Day are Noticed, Volume 1V. and R. Stevens and G.S. Norton, 1846 - Equity |
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