Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New York, Vol. 1: Containing the Cases from March, 1814, to December, 1815, Inclusive (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New York, Vol. 1: Containing the Cases From March, 1814, to December, 1815, Inclusive

Tm; system of Equity forms a most valuable portion (f that noble inheritance Of Law and Liberty derived from our ances tors. A Court of Equity, as distinct from the Courts of Law, is to be found in the earliest records Of our juridical history. It was one of the first acts of the Assembly, after the people of the colony were admitted to a share in the legislative power, to de clare that there should be a court OF chancery, which should hear and determine all matters of Equity, and be esteemed the Supreme Court Of the Colony.

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