THE DOCTRINE OF EQUITY. A COMMENTARY ON THE LAW AS ADMINISTERED BY The Court of Chancery. BY JOHN ADAMS, JUN., Esq., BARRISTER AT LAW. Sixth American Edition. CONTAINING THE NOTES TO THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF J. R. LUDLOW, J. M. COLLINS, HENRY WHARTON AND WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND REFERENCES TO RECENT ENGLISH AND BY GEORGE SHARSWOOD, JR. PHILADELPHIA: T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO., LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS, 535 CHESTNUT STREET. 1873. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, BY T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. HENRY B. ASHMEAD, PRINTER, PREFACE TO THE SIXTH AMERICAN EDITION. WITH the concurrence and approval of the former editors, their notes and references have been combined, and those of the present editor added to them. Their arrangement of notes has been followed, and the present work, has, as far as possible, been confined to references to the recent American and English cases. GEORGE SHARSWOOD, JR. PHILADELPHIA, January, 1873. |