Preface To The Second Edition In this second edition, effort has been made to incorporate the later important decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and the material amendments to the equity practice introduced by the recent Code revisal. The Virginia Code citations have been transposed to conform to the reversal of 1919. In collecting the later decisions, and in the transposition of the statutory citations, the author's labors were materially aided by the industrious and intelligent co-operation of his young friend and former pupil, Mr. Thomas D. W. Duke, to whom grateful acknowledgment is made. In this edition there has been a substantial revision of the original text. The chapter on Jurisdiction is practically new, and one hundred or more new sections have been added. A few additional forms have also been inserted-including the more important pleadings in suits for the sale of infants' lands. A table of cases has also been added. As indicated in the preface to the first volume, the work is meant primarily as a hornbook for undergraduate students and inexperienced practitioners-to which circumstance is to be attributed the omission of many matters of statutory detail. When the student becomes a practitioner he will presumably make a more detailed study of the statutes, in their original form, as found in the Code, along with the very full and helpful annotations of the revisors. W. M. L. University of Virginia, February 1, 1922. |