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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery, Vol. 1 of 2: Under the Following Heads; I. Common Law Jurisdiction of the Chancellor; II. Equity Jurisdiction of the Chancellor; III. Statutory Jurisdiction of the Chancellor; IV. Specially Delegated Jurisdiction of the Chancellor
If Chancellors were not guided by Prece dent, there ought to be fifty Courts ofchan cery. A decided point is now never dis cussed, but if Precedents were of no avail, each case must be argued on first principles, and the affairs of mankind could not be carried on.
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