Excerpt from The Orders, Statutes and Regulations Affecting the Practice the Court of Chancery: With Notes The anticipation here expressed of a speedy consolidation of the Chancery Orders was not realized. The Consolidated General Orders, of which the following Work is an edition, were published at the commencement of the year 1860. The work of consolidation was intrusted; by Lord Chancellor Chelmsford, to two members of the Chancery bar, Messrs. Josiah Smith and H. Cadman Jones, who were instructed by him to consolidate the Orders in Sanders's collection, and the subsequent Orders, omitting those which were expressly or virtually abrogated and retaining the remainder, with no further alteration (except where the style was very anti quated) than should be deemed necessary for the purpose of consolidating the same and of adapting them to the present practice, so as to form a harmonious and well-arranged col lection, and for the purpose of determining the most expedient practice where there is a conflict of authority on the words of an Order (a). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.