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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in the Court of Chancery by English Bill Besides, the different grounds of defense which the defendant may set forth and rely upon by demurrer, by plea, by answer responsive to the bill, or an answer in negation or avoidance of it, there may be found, at the hearing, a substantial defense arising out of the whole case, which has not in any way been specially advanced and relied upon by the defendant in his pleadings, 89, 90. The settled doctrine of federal jurisprudence, that a question of boundary between two States of the Union is one of equity jurisprudence, and governed by equity pleading and practice, 94. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.