COMMENTARIES

ON

EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE

VOLUME I

ON

EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE

AS ADMINISTERED IN

ENGLAND AND AMERICA

BY JOSEPH STORY, LL.D.

ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

"Chancery is ordained to supply the Law, not to subvert the Law."-LORD BACON.
"His ergo ex partibus juris, quidquid aut ex ipsa re, aut ex simili, aut ex majore, minoreve,
nasci videbitur, attendere, atque elicere, pertentando unamquamque partem juris, oportebit.” -
Cic. De Invent. Lib. 2, cap. 22.

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FOURTEENTH EDITION

BY

W. H. LYON, JR., LL.B.

Of the Raleigh, N.C., Bar

ASSISTANT TO NORTH CAROLINA CODE COMMISSION OF 1905
AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER OF A CIVIL Digest

OF NORTH CAROLINA DECISIONS

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOLUME I

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1918