THE HISTORY OF CONTRACT IN
EARLY ENGLISH EQUITY
W. T. BARBOUR, A.M., LL.B., B.LITT.
ASSISTANT-PROFESOSFO LRA W IN THE UNIVERSITOYF
MICHIGANU,.S .A.
NOTE
THIS essay has been materially abridged in order to bring
it within a reasonable length. Had I followed out the plan
originally projected, it would have contained an additional
hundred pages. Part I stands as originally written ; Part I1
has been somewhat condensed. I should have liked to include
more extracts from the petitions and to submit a greater
number of cases, but it seemed desirable to make this study as
brief as possible. As it is, I have burdened the text with
numerous quotations, but, as the chancery material is not
available in published form, a mere reference to a petition by
number without indicating its content would not be convincing.
I hope, however, that I have not obscured the argument by
too frequent quotation.
The chancery petitions are cited by indicating the bundle
number in Roman numerals and the number of the petition
in Arabic numerals. Thus, XII. 10 means Bundle twelve,
Petition number ten.
In the Appendix I have given a few select petitions.
They were chosen from among some 500 transcripts which
I made at the Public Record Office.
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