Fourteenth Edition of Smith's Action at Law. ELEMENTARY VIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN AN ACTION IN THE Supreme Court. WITH A CHAPTER ON MATTERS AND ARBITRATIONS. By W. D. I. FOULKES, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, JOINT EDITOR OF THE LICENSING ACTS AND THE "JUDICATURE ACTS." THIRD EDITION. LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE; H. SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE; AND W. MAXWELL AND SON, 8, BELL YARD. 1884. LONDON: W. I. BICHARDSON, PRINTER, 4 AND 5, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.c. BODLEIAN LIBRARY 13 JUN 84 OXFORD PREFACE. THIS edition reproduces the changes in practice made by the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, and contains some new subjects suggested by those Rules. The Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, now representing the code of procedure, are so bulky that it was thought inexpedient to reprint them at the end of the book as in previous editions, especially when the body of the book had been necessarily increased. In place of them, a Table of Acts and Rules is given with the view to some extent to effect the same purpose as was aimed at in printing the Rules themselves, namely, to familiarise the student with the sources of practice. The object of the body of the book is, as before, to introduce him to the practice in a form expressed and arranged somewhat differently from the Rules, and supplemented by fresh matter and comment. W. D. I. F. May, 1884. |