An enquiry into the jurisdiction of the Chancery in causes of equity : I. Upon what ground and foundation that jurisdiction is built. II. At what time the Chancery began to exercise that jurisdiction, and upon what occasion. III. How modest and moderate the exercise of it was at first. IV. How wonderfully it is grown, and enlarged; and V. What is the best remedy for restoring, and maintaining the common law. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the House of Lords, to whom it belongeth to keep the inferiour courts within their bounds. By Sir Robert Atkyns, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath. To which is added, The case of the said Sir Robert Atkyns upon his appeal, against a decree obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth Took and others, plaintiffs in Chancery, about a separate maintenance of 200 l. per annum, &c.
Atkyns, Robert,Sir,1621-1709.
Atkyns, Robert,Sir,1621-1709.
London : [s.n.],
printed in the year 1695.
"The case of Sir Robert Atkyns, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register, and was also issued separately in the same year (Wing C999).
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Took, Elizabeth.
England and Wales. Court of Chancery
Equity