A STUDY IN LEGAL ADMINISTRATION AND RECORDS SHARON ...

prosecutions for the Eastern Judicial D~strÎct.~
It appears that a separate Equity administration was fomed about the
time that Walker asserted the need for more assistants. William Leggo became
the master in equity, circa 1882, having "reached the city in November 1880,
where he was alrnost immediately asked to assist in the equity work of Queen's
Ben~h."'~ Leggo had been master in chancery in Hamilton and had written two
books on equity. The Practce of the Court of Chancery for Ontario Wh Some
Obsewations on the Pleadings in That Court, ln Two Volumes, incorporated
information relating to the many procedures necessary to the conduct of
chancery bus in es^.^' Leggo discussed in detail such topics as commencement
of a suit, the bill, dernurrers, decrees and orders, injunctions and restraining
orders, and sale of infants' estates. In a third volume, Chancery Forms, he
specified the wording and format of the foms required to expedite the
procedures discussed in the first two vol urne^.^ The three books were
doubtless of great assistance to judges and administrative staff. That Leggo
entered his new position during the earliest period of separated Equity
administrative staff is suggested in a newspaper comment from the Manitoba
Free Press. "For a long time," wrote the Free Press, "he performed the duty of
seven officers, but the great increase of business rendered necessary the
appointment of other~."~ Leggo died in 1888. His Manitoba career, though
short, paralleled that of Chief Justice T.W. Taylor. Jointly, they must have
presented an exceedingly strong stance for equity jurisprudence, practice, and