FOR AMENDING THE PRACTICE IN CHANCERY, FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE OFFICE OF MASTER, AND FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUITORS, 15 & 16 VICT., cc. 80, 86, & 87: ALSO THE TRUSTEES' RELIEF, AND OTHER ACTS; PROCEEDINGS BY CLAIM: WITH Notes, New Orders, and a Copious Index. BY LEONARD SHELFORD, ESQ. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. 08 LONDON: S. SWEET, 1, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET, Law Booksellers and Publishers. •BIL ADVERTISEMENT. THE following work contains the three important statutes, passed in the last session of parliament, for amending the practice and constitution of the Court of Chancery. The General Orders, made in pursuance of the Act for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity, with some other Orders, will be found immediately preceding the Index. Other General Orders may be expected to be issued very shortly, which will be printed uniformly with this work. Such Orders will probably include those directed to be made for regulating the times and mode of procedure before the Judges of Equity sitting at Chambers, and, generally, the practice of the Court consequent upon the abolition of the Masters' Offices. The Acts for the Relief of Trustees, and the Orders made for regulating the proceedings under them, with Notes of the decisions thereon, are added. The Act to diminish the Delay and Expense of Proceedings in the Court of Chancery is inserted, as well as that constituting the Judges of the Court of Appeal. The Act for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity having in many important particulars altered and modified the mode of proceeding by Claim, the Orders relating to Claims are inserted, with Notes of the Decisions upon them, and references to the alterations effected by the New Act. The same Act, having in many instances referred to and adopted the previously existing practice of the Court, has suggested many Notes. 3, BRICK COURT, TEMPLE, September, 1852. 1. Discontinuance of engrossing bills on parchment, and a printed bill to be filed instead 1 1 2 2. Writs of subpoena and summons to be abolished 4. The filing and service of a printed bill or claim to have 5. As to service of printed bill 6. Written copies of bills may be served in certain cases .. 7. Plaintiff to deliver printed copies of bill or claim at rate prescribed by Lord Chancellor...... 247 8. Provisions as to filing, &c., prints of original bill, to be extended to amendments; proviso..... 8 ... 9. Lord Chancellor may revive present practice as to filing of bills, &c... 11 10. Bills of complaint to contain concise narratives of ma terial facts, &c., divided into numbered paragraphs, 11 11. Person whose name is used as next friend of any infant, 15 17 13. Defendants may answer without leave within the time now allowed, though not required so to do by plaintiff'; but after that time defendant must have leave...... 14. Defendant's answer may contain material statements, besides answers to interrogatories 18 19 15. Plaintiff may, on expiration of time for answering, but before replication, move for decree or decretal order 19 |