History of a Suit in Equity, as Prosecuted and Defended in the Virginia State Courts and in the United States Circuit Courts With an Appendix, Embracing, Among Other Matters, Forms of Bills, Answers, Demurrers, Pleas, Decrees, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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There is a peculiarity attending Pleadings in Equity which deserves to be particularly noted at the threshhold of this Work. It is this: in Courts of Common Law, the immediate parties to the action are not always the only parties interested in the issue; indeed, in many cases, they are less interested than others who are not parties, and cannot properly be made such. In' Equity, however, this is 'not the case. There, as a general rule, all persons materially interested in the subject should be parties to the suit, either as plaintiffs or defeu dants. And so, also, 1n the arrangement of parties plaintifi'

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