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Summary of "A Practical Treatise on Chancery Pleading and Practice"

• The book aims to provide practical value to practitioners by focusing on the procedure in courts.
• It covers matters of equity jurisprudence, chancery pleading, and chancery practice.
• The author has drawn on the works of Story, Pomeroy, Daniel, and Barbour, as well as statutes, decisions, and rules of practice.
• The book emphasizes brevity, simplicity, perspicuity, and precision in its forms, pleadings, orders, and decrees.
• The contents of the book are arranged in the order of time in which they usually occur in a suit.
• There is a full index, table of contents, and cross-references to help readers find specific information.
• The main objective of the book is to aid those who work in Chancery Courts and improve the pleadings and practice.
• The second edition of the book was prepared to address deficiencies in the first edition and includes suggestions from lawyers and the use of the Library of Congress.
• Over 1,000 old sections have been re-written or revised, and 244 new sections have been added.
• The book covers the history, jurisdiction, and principles of the Chancery Court, as well as proceedings in a suit from its preliminaries to the appearance of the defendant.
• It provides guidance on parties to suits, original bills, preliminary proceedings, original process, appearance and defense, pleas in abatement, motions to dismiss bills, demurrers, pleas in bar, answers, and disclaimers.
• The book is based on the Code of 1858 and contains references to statutes and decisions.