DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE

OF EQUITY;

OR A CONCISE OUTLINE OF

PROCEEDINGS

IN THE

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY;

DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS.

BY G. GOLDSMITH, A. M.

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

THIRD EDITION:

ACCORDING TO THE LAST NEW ORDERS.

Ἐπανόρθωμα (ἡ Ἐπιείκεια) τοῦ νομίμου δικαίου.

Arist 5 Ethic. 14.

LONDON:

WM. BENNING & Co., LAW BOOKSELLERS,

(LATE SAUNDERS AND BENNING,)

43, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXLV.

CONTENTS.

Accident.

IN respect of a lost or cancelled deed

......

...

Affidavit of such loss necessary to be attached to a bill filed to

relieve

Account.

Page.

14

......

Advantages of proceeding in Equity rather than at law, in matters

of account

Right to account founded on the same principle at law and in

Equity

22

Suit will not lie in Equity where account is capable of proof, and a

matter of set-off...

Rents and profits of estates

23

24

Partnership transactions...

Whether statute of limitations operates as a bar to account

Agreements.

Specific performance of agreements....

81

Maxim of Equity in respect to agreements

In what light a court of Equity views a vendor and purchaser

before the completion of a contract, and the equitable results

thereof.....

How a devise of a real estate, to be sold for charitable purposes, is
affected by Equity, notwithstanding void under the mortmain act