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Excerpt from A Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice: State and Federal These few pages grew out of a course of lectures delivered for several years at The John Marshall Law School at Chicago. A limited time spent studying one hundred pages of essentials, yields better results than the same time spent on one thousand pages, through which are scattered the same essentials, with nine hundred pages of minor details. For mental grasp, students and lawyers prefer the small elementary treatise; for later study and reference, the larger one. No small work has been published during the last twenty years, and the practice has modernized in many respects. It therefore seems a fit time to produce this modest book, which it is hoped, may lighten the labors of students and lawyers. Its plan is different from prior small treatises. Its aim is to treat the main features briefly but not less completely than in other works large or small, and to discuss only such matters of procedure as most frequently arise, and need to be better understood. The book is designed for the studious lawyer as well as for the student. It is intended to set forth the general chancery procedure, State and Federal. Illinois cases have been cited, where possible, merely to make the book more useful for some particular State. Modem practice in relation to the master's office has received special attention. The practice in the federal courts is largely controlled by the United States Supreme Court's equity rules, and they are included for ready reference. State statutes, governing chancery practice, usually provide that matters of practice not therein provided for, shall be "according to the general usage and practice of courts of equity." 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.