Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery, Vol. 1 of 2: Under the Following Heads; I. Common Law Jurisdiction of the Chancellor; II. Equity Jurisdiction of the Chancellor; III. Statutory Jurisdiction of the Chancellor; IV. Specially Delegated Jurisdiction of the Chancellor If Chancellors were not guided by Prece dent, there ought to be fifty Courts ofchan cery. A decided point is now never dis cussed, but if Precedents were of no avail, each case must be argued on first principles, and the affairs of mankind could not be carried on. 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.