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   1. ch. 4. and 6.
   2. pag. 49. etc.
   3. F. N. B. 27.
   4. Cro. Jac. 641. 2 Lev. 163. T. Jones. 90.
   5. See book I. ch. 8.
   6. 3 P. Wms. 108.
   7. Duke's char. uses. 62. 128. Corporation of Burford v. Lenthall. Canc. 9 May, 1743
   8. 2 Vern. 118.
   9. Huggins v. Yorkbuildings Company. Canc. 24 Oct. 1740. Reeve v. Attorney-general. Canc. 27 Nov. 1741. Lightboun v. Attorney general. Canc. 2 May, 1743.
   10. Vol. I. introd. § 2, & 3. ad cak.
   11. Lord Kayms. prince. of equit. 44.
   12. See Vol. II. ch. 23. pag. 378.
   13. Ibid. ch. 15. pag. 243, 244, ch. 23. pag. 377.
   14. Ibid. ch. 14. pag. 208.
   15. Ibid. pag. 227.
   16. See pag. 300.
   17. Ff. 40. 9. 12.
   18. Lord Kayms, prince, of equ. 177.
   19. de aequitate. § 3.
   20. 1 Roll. Abr. 374. 4 Inst. 84. 10 Mod. l.
   21. Book II. ch. 20.
   22. See pag. 162.
   23. This is stated by Mr. Selden (Tabletalk. tit. equity.) with more pleasantry than truth. "For law, we have a measure, and know what to trust to: equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience."
   24. 2 P. Wms. 640. See Vol. II. pag. 337.
   25. Salk. 154.
   26. 2 Vern. 289. 316. 3 Atk. 520.
   27. See the of Foster and Munt, 1 Vern. 473. with regard to the undisposed residuum of personal estates.
   28. Quae in summis tribunalibus multi a legum canone decernunt judices, solus (si res exegerit) cohibet cancellarius ex arbitrio; nec aliter decretis tenetur suae curiae vel sui ipsius, quin, elucente nova ratione, recognoscat quae voluerit, mutet et deleat, prout suae videbitur prudentiae. [Those decisions which many judges in the highest tribunals make according to the rules of law, the chancellor alone (if the case require it) can restrain according to his pleasure; nor is he so bound by the decrees of his court, or those of himself, but, a new reason appearing, he may revise whatever he pleases, may alter and reverse as he shall think fit.] (gloss. 108.)
   29. See pag. 53. 54.
   30. Archeion. 71, 72, 73.
   31. ubi supra.
   32. De Augm. Scient. 1. 8. c. 3.
   33. See Vol. II. pag. 456,
   34. 2 Atk. 239.
   35. De jure naturae cogitare per nos atque dicere debumus; de jure populi Romani, quae relicta sunt et tradita. [We should think and decide our natural rights for ourselves; but the rights of the Roman people are determined by the laws which are left and handed down to us.] (Cic. de. Leg. l. 3. ad calc.)
   36. See Vol. I. pag. 253.
   37. Ricord v. Lettenham. Tr. 5 Geo. III. B. R.
   38. See Vol. I. pag. 75. Vol. II. pag. 459. 461. 467.
   39. See Vol. II. pag. 513.
   40. Ibid. 504.
   41. Ibid. 463.
   42. 1 Chan. Cas. 57.
   43. 2 P. Wm. 145.
   44. 2 Chan. Cas. 152.
   45. 1 Squ. Cas. abr. 367.
   46. 2 Vern. 277.
   47. Ibid. 638.
   48. 2 Chan. Cas 46.
   49. 3 P. Wms. 148. Yearbook, 22 Edw. IV. 37. pl. 21.
   50. 1 Equ. Cas. abr. 16.
   51. 3 P. Wms. 215.
   52. 1 Ch. Rep. 14. 2 Chan. Cas. 32.
   53. 1 Vern. 308. Prec. Chan. 261. 1 P. Wms. 672. Stra. 404.
   54. 2 P. Wms. 156.
   55. 2 Vern. 32. 1 P. Wms. 239.
   56. 1 Vern. 237.
   57. 2 Vern. 84.
   58. 1 Equ. Cas. abr. 337.
   59. 2 p. Wms. 645. 668, 669.
   60. See pag. 433.
   61. Archeion. 71. 73.
   62. 2 P. Wms. 685, 686.
   63. See pag. 53. 54. 55.
   64. Gilbert of ejectm. 2. 2 Bac. Abr. 160.
   65. Bro. Abr. t. tenant per copie. 10. Litt. § 77.
   66. See pag. 200.
   67. Smith's commonw. b. 2. c. 12.
   68. Stat. 14 & 15 Hen. VIII. c. 8.
   69. pag. 50.
   70. 1 Vern. 421.
   71. En cest court de chauncerie, home ne serra prejudice par son mispledging ou pur defaut de forme, mes solonque le veryte del mater: car il doit agarder solonque consciens, et nemi ex rigore juris. [In this court of chancery a man shall not be prejudiced by his mispleading, or defect of form, but according to the truth of the matter; for the decision should be made according to conscience and not according to the rigor of law.] (Dyversite des courts. edit. 1534. fol. 296, 297. Bro. Abr. t. jurisdiction. 50.)
   72. Omichund v. Barker. 1 Atk. 21.
   73. On a trial at law if the plaintiff reads any part of the defendant's answer, he must read the whole of it; for by reading any of it he shows a reliance on the truth of the defendant's testimony, and makes the whole of his answer evidence.
   74. Nota est sponsio judicialis: "Spondesne quingentos, si meus sit? Spondeo, si tuus sit. Et tu quoque spondesne quingentos, ni tuus sit? Spondeo, ni meus sit." [The judicial wager is known: "Do you engage to give me five hundred pounds, if it is mine? I promise it, if it is yours. And you also, do you promise me five hundred pounds if it is not yours? I promise it, if it is not mine."] Vide Heinecc. Antiquitat. l. 3. t. 16. § 3. & Sigon. de judiciis l. 21. p. 466. citat. ibid.
   75. Stat. 3 Geo. II. c. 30. See pag. 450.
   76. Gilb. Rep. 151, 152.
   77. Com. journ. 13 Mar. 1704.
   78. Lord's journ. 23 Mar, 1620.
   79. Ibid. 3, 11, 12 Dec. 1621.
   80. Com. journ. 19 Nov. 1675, etc.
   81. Show. Parl. C. 81.
   82. Duke's char. uses. 62.
   83. Gilb. Rep. 155, 156.