OF

CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

High Court of Chancery,

FROM THE YEAR M DCC LXXXIX TO M DCCC XVII.

WITH A DIGESTED INDEX.

BY FRANCIS VESEY, JUN. ESQ.

OF LINCOLNS INN, BARRISTER AT LAW.

In Twenty Volumes.

VOL. XIII.

M DCCC VI.... M DCCC VII. XLVI AND XLVII GEO. III.

FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION, WITH THE NOTES OF FRANCIS VESEY, JUN. ESQ.
AND THE EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS OF JOHN E. HOVENDEN, ESQ.

OF GRAY'S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW.

THE WHOLE EDITED,

WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES TO AMERICAN LAW,

AND SUBSEQUENT ENGLISH DECISIONS,

BY

CHARLES SUMNER, ESQ.

Omne jus, quod est certum, aut scripto, aut moribus constat. Dubium æquitatis regula examinandum est. Quæ scripta sunt, aut
posita in more civitatis, nullam habent difficultatem: cognitionis sunt enim, non inventionis. At que consultorum responsis
explicantur, aut in verborum interpretatione sunt posita, aut in recti pravique discrimine...
Quintilian, de Jure Civili.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

M DCCC XLV.

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ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR M DCCC XLV, BY

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN,

IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS.

TABLE

CASES REPORTED IN VOLUME THIRTEEN.

DOUBLY ARRANGED.

N. B.-" VERSUS" ALWAYS FOLLOWS THE NAME OF THE PLAINTIFF.