PREFACE TO FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION. IN preparing the fourth edition of DANIELL'S CHANCERY PRACTICE, the endeavor of the editors has been to alter as little as possible the original text of a work which has attained so high a reputation, but, at the same time, to make the present edition a correct text-book of the existing practice of the Court; and although it has appeared to them that the plan of the work might in some respects be amended, they have (except in some few instances) considered it better not to alter an arrangement with which most practitioners in the Court are well acquainted. The substance of the General Orders and Acts of Parliament affecting the practice of the Court (with the exception of the Winding-up Acts, which seemed rather fitted for a separate treatise) has been stated; and in the second volume will be found a full description of the practice on trials by jury. A companion volume, containing precedents of pleadings, and forms of all the proceedings in use in the Court, with references to the Practice, and which will, it is hoped, prove useful to both branches of the profession, is in active preparation. It will be published, as a separate work, shortly after the completion of the second volume. The cases have been added to the time of publication. Great care has been taken to insure correctness in the references, and the editors hope that in this respect few errors of importance will be found. The thanks of the editors are due to Mr. H. Cadman Jones for the use of his valuable notes, and to many other members of the bar for their kind assistance, and also to many of the officers of the Court for information as to the practice in their various departments. The proof-sheets have been read by Mr. Braithwaite, of the Record and Writ Clerks' Office, whose assistance has been of great utility. PREFACE TO FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION. IN preparing this edition of DANIELL'S CHANCERY PRACTICE, the editors have spared no labor to render it deserving of a continuance of the favor with which the fourth edition was received. The work has been, for a considerable time, out of print, and this edition was ready for the press, and would have been published at a much earlier date, had it not been delayed in consequence of the proposed re-arrangement of the Consolidated and General Orders of the Court. The Statutes, General Orders, and Cases subsequent to the last edition, and affecting the subject of the work, have been noticed; but the general plan and arrangement have not been altered. The editors return their thanks to their friends of the Chancery Bar, who have made some useful suggestions, and pointed out some errors in the fourth edition. It is not to be expected that a work containing so many references should be free from errors, but the editors have endeavored to render them as few as possible. The editors also return their thanks to several officers of the Court for information as to the practice in their several departments. The proof sheets have been read by Mr. Braithwaite, of the Record and Writ Clerks' Office, and by Mr. Upjohn, of the Master of the Rolls' Chambers, whose assistance has been of great value. LINCOLN'S INN, November, 1870. PROCESS BY SERVICE OF A COPY OF THE BILL ON FORMAL DE- |