Excerpt from The Principles of Equity: Intended for the Use of Students and Profession

The Author, in the course of his studies for the Bar, made so many notes on the Principles of Equity, and the cases in support of them, not only from his own private reading, but from the Lectures of that able and distinguished master, Mr. Birkbeck, the Lecturer on Equity Jurisprudence, that it required but little trouble to recast and mould them into the form of a book. Venturing to think that the work may prove useful, not only to the student but the practioner, he ventures with diffidence to submit the result of his labors to the consideration of the profession.

[The editor of the first American edition has altered the text of the English author so as to adapt it to the changes in the American law. To this end he has cited American authorities whenever necessary. The object of this handbook, being to present that important subject - The Principles of Equity Jurisprudence - in as concise a manner as possible, such of the American adjudications as are necessary to be cited in order to present the American law are given. But the book has not been burdened with all the American cases, as such a course would have extended it far beyond the limits of one volume, besides losing sight of the main object of its publication.]

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