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NOTE TO THE READER

The paper in this volume is brittle or the
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LONDON:
STEVENS & SONS, 119 CHANCERY LANE.

Law Publishers and Booksellers.

1877.

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PREFACE.

In this work (which has been written principally for the use of students, but which, it is hoped, will also be found serviceable to practitioners), is given a view or outline of an action in the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer Divisions of the High Court of Justice; and it must be borne in mind that most of what is here written applies to actions in the Chancery Division of the High Court, where that division and the other divisions above mentioned have concurrent jurisdiction.

The Common Law Procedure Acts reformed and altered in many respects the mode of pleading and procedure in actions in the Superior Courts of Common Law; but the Judicature Acts have entirely altered and changed the system of pleading and procedure.

Some of the greatest changes made by the Judicature Acts are the following:-the superior courts have been united, and constitute one supreme court of judicature ;a new court of appeal has been established, called Her Majesty's Court of Appeal ;-the judicial strength of the House of Lords has been increased by the creation of two Lords of Appeal in ordinary, and provisions have been made as to hearing appeals to the House during a proroga

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