With a view of rendering the work more acceptable, and of giving it an additional value, practical directions, as to the mode of carrying out the several proceedings, have been added, in a somewhat similar manner to that adopted in Mr. Archbold's admirable Practice of the Courts of Common Law. The reported cases, upon the new points of practice, are, by means of Addenda, brought up almost to the very day of publication; and as some of these are of considerable importance, it will be advisable to make a note of reference thereto, in the body of the work, previous to its perusal. In the Appendix are contained the ordinary Forms required in the conduct of a suit, including all such Writs as were formerly prepared by the Clerks in Court; to which are added, all the General Orders from 1828 to the present period, and the recent Statutes affecting the practice of the Court. The Author cannot refrain from acknowledging that he feels a considerable degree of diffidence in submitting the present volume to the profession. The rather rapid manner, however, in which it has been prepared and passed through the press, with a view of affording the earliest possible assistance to the practitioner, might, perhaps, alone suffice as an apology for any slight inaccuracies which may possibly have crept into it; but with a liberal profession, he feels assured that a lenient judgment will be passed upon the first edition of a work, treating of a practice which has, in most respects, been rendered entirely novel. |