FORMS OF CLAIMS AND DEFENCES IN THE Courts of the Chancery Division OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE; WITH NOTES CONTAINING AN OUTLINE OF THE LAW RELATING TO AND AN APPENDIX OF FORMS OF ENDORSEMENT ON THE WRIT OF SUMMONS. STEWART DREWRY, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER; Author of a "Treatise on Injunctions," of "Reports temp. Kindersley, V.-C." and other works. 0 120 LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, Jaw Publishers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty. DUBLIN: HODGES, FOSTER & CO. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK; BELL & BRADFUTE. CALCUTTA: THACKER, SPINK & CO. BOMBAY: THACKER, VINING & CO. MELBOURNE: GEORGE ROBERTSON. PREFACE. THE Appendix C, to the Judicature Act of 1875, contains only four Forms of Claims and Defences relating to actions in the Chancery Division of the High Court; and three out of those four Forms are devoted to actions for the administration of estates. So far as those forms extend and are applicable to business belonging to the Chancery Division, they will of course be authoritative models and guides for the Draftsman. But, as the various heads of the ordinary jurisdiction, hitherto exercised by the Court of Chancery (and not displaced by the Judicature Acts from the Chancery Division of the High Court), extend over a very considerable number of subjects, it is conceived by the Compiler of the Forms offered in this work to the Profession, that they may be useful as guides, or at least as helps, to the younger members of the Profession; and may possibly occasionally save time to experienced Draftsmen. The writer has not attempted, except in one solitary instance, to draw forms for imaginary states of facts; a course which would be at least unreliable, and might even be actually misleading. The course, therefore, *Form in p. 151. |