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The whole work has been carefully revised, and some parts have been rewritten.

It appears from a statement, prepared in 1877 by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,* that upwards of 12,000 companies had then been registered under the Act of 1862, and that the Capital, paid up or credited as paid up, of the companies subject to that Act and then appearing to be in existence, exceeded £300,000,000. Since the preparation of this statement there have been several thousand new companies registered, and many millions of capital subscribed: and in addition to these figures it is probable that fifty or a hundred millions are invested on the debentures of the before mentioned companies. Accordingly it is obvious that the matters. dealt with in the following pages concern the interests of an important section of the community.

The author trusts that the work will be found practically useful to members of both branches of the Profession. To render it such has been his aim throughout.

In conclusion the author begs to express his thanks to those members of the Profession who have been good enough to lend him papers, and to the editors and proprietors of "Seton on Decrees" for liberty to adopt four of the Forms of orders already published in that work.

5, NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN,

December, 1880.

* See Appendix to Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1867, appointed by the House of Commons in 1877.

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