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Excerpt from Forms of Pleadings and Precedents in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, and the Revised Rules of the Court of Chancery, Rules of the Prerogative and Orphans' Courts, and the Revised Rules of the Court of Errors and Appeals: Also, Practical Notes and References to Decisions on Matters of Pleading and Practice Dear Sir - More than a year ago I undertook, at your suggestion, the preparation of the following pages, and proceeded with the work as rapidly as my other duties and engagements permitted. At my request, and notwithstanding your many pressing and arduous official duties, you have found time to examine the sheets as they passed through the press, and now, with your valuable aid and suggestions, I am enabled to present the completed work for your final examination and approval. The book of Chancery Precedents, originally prepared, in 1841, by the late Stacy G. Potts, Esq., (an enlarged edition of which was issued in 1872, by Messrs. Potts Linn, ) is the only work specially adapted to the New Jersey Chancery Practice ever hitherto attempted, and it has been, so far as it extended, of real practical utility. The object of that work, as stated by Mr. Potts, in his introductory note thereto, to aid in producing uniformity in the details of the practice and in affording a useful manual to the younger members of the bar, has been in a great measure attained. Since 1841, how ever, the great bulk of our chancery reports has been published, and many changes have been made in the practice of the court, as the great number of decisions on points Of practice testify, and by important alterations in our statute law, many of the forms contained in that volume have become Obso lete, so that in the hands of the younger members of the bar, especially, it has become a blind guide. 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.