ON EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE, AS ADMINISTERED IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. July 24-971 3-17 BY JOSEPH STORY, LL.D. TWELFTH EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH NOTES AND NEW CASES ADDED, BY JAIRUS W. PERRY, AUTHOR OF THE TREATISE ON TRUSTS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1877. L30277 AUG 1 9 1948 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by WILLIAM W. STORY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by WILLIAM W. STORY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877; by In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. SIR, TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM PRESCOTT, LL. D. It affords me sincere gratification to be allowed to dedicate this work to you, upon your retirement from the Bar, of which you have been so long a distinguished ornament. More than onethird of a century has elapsed, since, upon my first admission to practice, I had the honor of forming an acquaintance with you, which has ripened into a degree of friendship of which I may be truly proud. It has been my good fortune, through the whole intermediate period, to have been a witness of your professional labors, labors equally remarkable for the eminent ability, untiring research, profound learning, and unsullied dignity, with which they were accompanied. They have brought with them the just reward due to a life of consistent principles, and public spirit, and private virtue, in the universal confidence and respect which have followed you in your retreat from the active scenes of business. This is a silent but expressive praise, whose true value is not easily overestimated. I trust that you may live many years to enjoy it, for the reason so finely touched by one of the great Jurists of Antiquity: Quia Conscientia bene actæ vitæ, multorumque benefactorum Recordatio jucundissima est. JOSEPH STORY. CAMBRIDGE, December, 1835. |