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Equity rehearings is not discemible from the index. The researcher is obliged to<br />

locate them by leafing through the pages of the volume. The first rehearing<br />

occurred December 3, 1888 and was minuted thus:<br />

December 3rd, 1888.<br />

Balfour<br />

v<br />

Drurnrnond Equity Re.Hg. (2 appeals)<br />

Howell C. and Vivian for the Plaintiff.<br />

Hough for Drurnrnond.<br />

Muloch for Slaven.<br />

Culver for Williams.<br />

Perdue for Brathwaite.<br />

Wilson for Harvard and Van Worthe.<br />

Ptffs. appeal stands until Dfts. appeal heard.<br />

Mts. Slaver, Williams, Brathwaite, and Van Worthe<br />

appealing. Culver took up argument. Muloch took up<br />

argument. Court adjoumed until 12 o'clock.<br />

[The hearing continued next day with the following minutes:]<br />

Culver cited some authorities.<br />

[?] continued argument.<br />

C. P. Wilson took up argument.<br />

The prothonotary fell asleep.<br />

Equity proceedings produced four different types of decrees: decrees<br />

(general), decrees for sale (without reference), decrees with reference, and<br />

decrees for foreclosure. Master in Chancery William Leggo explained the<br />

decree:<br />

A decree is a sentence or order of the Court,<br />

pronounœd on hearing and understanding al1 the<br />

points in issue, and determining the right of al1 parties<br />

to the suit, according to equity and good conscience.

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