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4. Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure.

Professor Lile.

The study of Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure is
taken up immediately upon the completion of the course on
the law of Corporations, to which it is designed to be
supplementary. After consideration of the origin and rise
of the chancery jurisdiction, the student is led carefully
through the usual subjects of equitable cognizance, and
thence into the methods of procedure, as recognized in the
High Court of Chancery in England, and as modified by
statute or by rules of court in America. In the study of
equity jurisprudence, the contrast between legal and equitable
principles is constantly adverted to, and the student is
incited to the appreciation and cultivation of the fine sense
of moral right underlying the doctrines of technical equity.
The procedure in the Federal courts of chancery and in the
chancery courts of Virginia (where the distinction between
legal and equitable procedure is still maintained) is made

the basis of instruction. Practical work is required in
draughting the various forms and pleadings, from the
subpœna to the final decree.—February 15 to June 10,
Twice a week.

Text-Book—Bispham's Principles of Equity.

The Professor's Notes.