THE NEW PRACTICE OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY, AS REGULATED BY THE ACTS For the Emprovement of the Jurisdiction of Equity, For Abolishing the Office of Master, BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, Law Booksellers and Publishers. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN ROMILLY, MASTER OF THE ROLLS, &c. &c. &c., IN ADMIRATION OF HIS EMINENT JUDICIAL QUALITIES AND HIS EARNEST AND ENLIGHTENED EXERTIONS TO AMEND THE LAW AND IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, The Following Pages ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. No apology can be necessary for the publication of these pages. The convenience of an early issue of the new Chancery Statutes and the General Orders in a compendious form, and with the usual aids to reference, will not, it is hoped, be denied. It would have been easy to compile a treatise of more apparent pretension. The size could have been enlarged by the introduction of a succession of comments, contrasting the new system with that which it supersedes. But this would serve only to perpetuate impressions of the past, which it becomes obviously essential to obliterate rather than reproduce. Another expedient might have been resorted to for the purpose of gaining some reputation amongst the undiscerning. The author could have pressed into the service of the new acts an array of cases, decided under the departed régime. This, too, would ill accord with the simplicity of his design, and he hopes to be pardoned for adding, the conscientiousness of his intention, which aims at no more than is indicated in the title-page. Whether he shall hereafter undertake the more responsible task, which the accumulation of judicial decisions under the new acts, and those immediately preceding them, may render necessary, and to which he would gladly |