THE PARTIES WHO MAY SUE AND BE SUED; THE FORM OF ACTION; RICHMOND: A. MORRIS; G. M. WEST. WASHINGTON CITY: F. TAYLOR. BALTIMORE: CUSHINGS & BAILEY. 1858. UML Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, BY CONWAY ROBINSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States velo T that Archt remed princip tle pra the par by a v well as United In th which is whose la certain decision take plac and 3, of matter of PRINTED AT RICHMOND : BY JOHN NOWLAN, SOUTH ELEVENTH STREET. what circ within w PREFACE TO THE THIRD VOLUME. I am grateful for good health during the preparation of this volume and rejoice that I have been enabled to complete it. Those who have examined the two former volumes know that this work is not restricted to practice in the narrow sense in which the subject is treated by Impey, Sellon, Tidd or Archbold it is not, like their treatises, confined to technical remedies practised in some particular court, but it discusses principles which every member of the bench or bar has occasion to know in connexion with the remedies which constitute practice in his state or country. No matter what may be the particular form of those remedies, they may be illustrated by a work which treats of the principles and pleadings, as well as the practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States. In the two former volumes, I had treated 1, of the place which is to be looked to-to ascertain the state or country whose laws shall decide the matter in controversy-or to ascertain where proceedings shall be instituted to obtain such decision; 2, of the time at which transactions may lawfully take place, or within which proceedings may lawfully be had; and 3, of the circumstances of the transaction or the subject matter of the proceeding. Having in those volumes shewn what circumstances give a right to maintain a personal actionwithin what time the action is to be brought-and how the |