RULES AND ORDERS OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. Revised and Digested by the Present Chancellor.
Albany, [NY]: Published by E.F. Backus, No.67, State Street. E. E. Hosford Printers, 1815. First edition. 8vo. 67 pp. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards with red leather label on spine. "The Rules and Orders passed prior to February, 1814, or to No. 74, inclusive, were passed during the time of Mr. Chancellor Lansing. The subsequent rules were passed during the time of Mr. Justice Kent." Kent's rules would include 75-92, plus "Precedents of Executions in Chancery."
"The court of chancery previous to [Kent's] accession had been shunned by lawyers and litigants on account of its dilatory proceedings and circuitous and expensive forms of practice. Chancellor Kent enlarged and improved the court, and by expounding and applying the doctrines of chancery, which before had not been adequately administered, laid the foundations of equity jurisprudence in the United States." --Appleton's. With a signature of Archibald Smith, 1816 on the title page. Inserted at p. 10 is a page of a contemporary letter, unsigned, to Smith, referring to the practice of the Chancery relative to subpoenas, discussing the 5th rule and the 4th rule (text on pp. 10-11 refers to the 4th & 5th rules for the serving of subpoenas). Item #64680
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