"PRÆTORES PAULATIM ASPERITATEM JURIS CIVILIS CORRIGENTES, SIVE QUOD LONDON: STEVENS & HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. 1872. PREFACE. THE object of the Author in the following work is to produce a complete exposition of the Law and Practice of Injunctions. Where the Author has thought it useful he has stated the particular circumstances of the case cited, to such an extent as will more clearly elucidate the principle of the decision. It is believed that no proposition is stated that is not founded on, or has not been originated by, the particular case or cases cited in support of that proposition. The principles of the decisions cited are, as a rule, given (either in a direct or narrative form) in the very words of the judges who enunciated them. The Author believes that every case in the English Courts of Equity (together with the cases on Injunctions in the House of Lords, and in the Privy Council and Irish Courts-with the Scotch cases of Interdicts in the House of Lords), where an Injunction has formed any material portion of the relief asked for, has been noticed. In addition to the above-mentioned cases, a selection from the American cases has been added. For these, the Author is, with some few exceptions, indebted to Mr. F. Hilliard's very able work on Injunctions (2nd Edit.). In the Common Law parts of the work it is believed that all the reported cases on the subject of Injunctions at Common Law have been cited. The Indexes, at the same time that they are in the alphabetical form, are also to a considerable extent analytical, and, it is hoped, both comprehensive and concise. Upwards of 3500 cases and 160 statutes are cited. LINCOLN'S INN, April, 1872. W. J. |