APPENDIX.

SECTION 1.

FORMS OF CONCLUSIONS OF THE BILLS IN CHANCERY MOST FREQUENTLY FILED.

1. The Conclusion of an ordinary Bill.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto your orator [or "orators," or "oratrix," or "oratrixes," or "orators and oratrixes," according as the plaintiff or plaintiffs may be male or female, &c.] her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs of subpoena to be directed to the said C. D. and E. F. [naming the defendants], and to the confederates when discovered, thereby commanding them, and every of them, at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited, personally to be and appear before your Lordship in this Honorable Court, and then and there a full, true, direct, and perfect answer make to all and singular the premises; and further to stand to perform and abide such further order, direction [and decree] (a) therein as to your Lordship shall seem meet; and your orator [or "oratrix," &c.] shall ever pray, &c.

F. C. [Counsel's signature.]

2. The Conclusion of an Information by the Attorney-General where there is a Relator.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto her Majesty's Attorney-General, and the said relator,

If the bill be merely a bill of discovery, or if it be merely a bill to perpetuate testimony, or any other bill where no decree is necessary, the words " and decree" must be omitted from this form, otherwise the bill will probably be demurrable.

her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs, &c. [continue as in No. 1, down to the words “shall seem meet," and conclude thus:] and the said relator shall ever pray, &c.

F. C. [Counsel's signature.]

F. T. [Attorney-General's signature.]

3. The Conclusion of an Information by the AttorneyGeneral, where there is no Relator.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto her Majesty's Attorney-General her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs, &c. [continue as in No. 1, down to the words" shall seem meet," and there stop.] F. T.

F. C.

4. The Conclusion of an Information and Bill.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto her Majesty's Attorney-General and your orator her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs, &c. [concluding as in No. 1.]

F. T.

F. C.

5. Conclusion of a Bill for an Injunction to stay Proceedings at Law.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto your orator not only her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs of injunction, issuing out of and under the seal of this Honorable Court, to be directed to the said C. D., to restrain him from proceeding at law against your orator, touching any of the matters in question, but also her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs of subpoena, &c. [concluding as in No. 1.]

6. Conclusion of a Bill for a Special Injunction.

Same as the last, except that the words "for the purposes aforesaid must be substituted for the words in italics.

7. Conclusion of a Bill against a Defendant having Privilege of Peerage.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto your orator your Lordship's letter missive to be directed to the said Earl of L., desiring him to appear to, and answer your orator's said bill, or in default thereof her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs of subpœna, to be directed to the said Earl of L., thereby commanding him at a certain day, &c. [conclude as in No. 1.]

8. Conclusion of a Bill for a Writ of Ne Exeat Regno.

May it please your Lordship to grant unto your orator not only her Majesty's most gracious writ of Ne exeat regno, issuing out of and under the seal of this Honorable Court, to restrain the said defendant, C, D., from departing out of the jurisdiction of this Court, but also her Majesty's most gracious writ or writs of subpoena, &c. [concluding as in No. 1.]

I, John Smith, of

,

in the county of

[insert deponent's addition, as " attorney's clerk, "" 66 yeoman," labourer," or the like], do solemnly swear that I did, on the

day of

,

instant [or "last"] at (state where the service took

place), personally serve the above-named defendant, C. D., with a writ of subpœna, issuing out of and under the seal of this Honorable Court, by delivering to and leaving with the said C. D. a true copy of the said subpoena, and of the indorsement thereon; and that at the same time I produced and showed to the said C. D. the said original subpoena, by which the said defendant, C. D., was commanded to cause an appearance to be entered for him in this Honorable Court to a bill filed against him by the abovenamed plaintiff, within days after the service of the said subpoena on him the said defendant, exclusive of the day of such service. And I do further swear that I have seen the said defendant C. D. and that he does not appear to be, and I believe he is not an infant, under the age of twenty-one years, nor a person of weak or unsouud mind, unable of himself to defend this suit.

I, John Smith, of &c., do solemnly swear, that I

day of

did, on the instant [or "last"], serve the above-named defendant, E. F., with a writ of subpoena, issuing out of and under the seal of this Honorable Court, by delivering a true copy thereof, and of the indorsement thereon, to, and leaving it with a servant of the said E. F., at his dwellinghouse, situate at in the county of

and that at the same time I produced and shewed to the said servant the said original subpoena, by which the said E. F. was commanded &c. [conclude as in last form.]

J. S.

Sworn, &c. (ante, pp. 105, 106.)

In Chancery.

3. Service of Copy Bill.

Between A. B. plaintiff.

and

C. D. and E. F. defendants.

day of

day of

I, John Smith of &c., do solemnly swear, that I did on the personally serve the above named defendant, E. F., with a true copy of the original, [or supplemental, &c.] bill, omitting the interrogating part thereof, and which bill was filed in this cause on the by the above-named plaintiff against the abovenamed defendants, by delivering to the said E. F., at his dwelling-house, situate at such true copy as aforesaid. And I do further swear, that there is no account, payment, conveyance, or other direct relief sought against the said defendant, E. F., by the said bill; and that the said defendant, E. F., is of the age of 21 years and upwards, and was at the time of the service of the said copy of the said bill on him within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court.

J. S.

Sworn, &c. (ante, pp. 105, 106).

(Vide pp. 5, 181.)