Select ON UITY PLEADINGS, AND THE INCIDENTS THEREOF, ACCORDING TO THE PRACTICE OF THE COURTS OF EQUITY, OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA. BY JOSEPH STORY, LL. D., ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, "Ordine Placitandi servato, servatur et jus."- Co. LITT .303. a. "In eâ (consuetudine) autem jura sunt, quæ ipsa jam certa propter vetustatem; quo in THIRD EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED. BOSTON: CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN. LONDON: A. MAXWELL & SON, 32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN, M DCCC XLIV. 1847 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by JOSEPH STORY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. SINCE the publication of the second edition of the present work, a considerable number of cases have been decided in England and America, which have an important bearing upon some of the topics discussed therein. I have availed myself of the present opportunity to revise the entire text, to correct such errors therein, as after a diligent examination, have met my notice, and to incorporate such of the recent authorities as may serve to illustrate, explain, confirm, or qualify the doctrines stated therein. In these respects I trust the reader will find the work substantially improved, at the same time, that I am conscious, so intricate and perplexed is the subject, and so various and confused are the materials, that the hope can scarcely be indulged, that it has attained entire completeness and accuracy. CAMBRIDGE, August, 1844. |