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STO satisfaction to American jurists, to find our legal writers, the Kents, the Stor3'S, and the Greenleafs, paying back to Europe, if not wliolly in our own coin, their own restamped and improved in value, for what we have been so long debtors. Of Mr. Justice Story's Commentaries upon the Conflict of Laws, a late English writer says — " No work on international jurisprudence merited, nor received, greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for the extensive learning of ISIr. Justice Story, and the practically useful pur- poses to which he applied it. It is scarcely ever ciied without a sincere encomium, either from the Bench or the Bar, on its great merits, and the obligations its learned author has conferred on the Profession." 3 Law Rev. 377; Warren's L. S. 771; Hoff. L. S. 330; 5 Jurist, 642; 17 Am. Quart. Rev. 303; 4 Leg. Ex. & L. C. 512; 11 A. J. 305; (13) 237; (14) 245; 2 Kent, 4G3, n; 2 Bing. N. C. 211 ; 31 L. M. 279; Edinb. L. J. No. XL STORY, JOSEPH. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as administered in England and America. 4th ed. 2 vols. 8vo. Boston. 1846. See Siniih, J. TV. Were the contents of these volumes properly and generally under- stood, there would be less opposition in some of our States, to the intro- duction of Chancery Tribunals, with plenary powers, without which, in some form or other, it is impossible to administer justice to suitors in the present complicated and varied transactions of society. The equity of the law is good, but the Law of Equity is better, for it not only in common with the law redresses wrongs, but goes farther, it prevents them, which the law cannot do. It is based upon the immutable prin- ciples of justice and morality, and is practical religion applied to the every day affairs of life. Its existence is anterior to all human laws, and eminates from the Deity himself. In its administration, it sometimes fails to attain its complete purposes, not from any defects in the system, but from a misapprehension of the objects to which it is applied. Whoever desires to see its principles unfolded, as applied to human transactions, and to learn the history of its progress through the past, and its relative position and importance at the present, will diligently read the writings of one of its best and most eloquent expounders, the Commentaries upon Equity Jurisprudence, by Mr. Justice Story. Like most of this learned author's works, its merits have not been unappre- ciated in the land from whence we have drawn a large portion of our laws, and it ranks among the best elementary text books that either country affords. Pref. Joy on Confessions; 22 L. M. 61; 15 A. J. 363 ; 1 A. L. M. 448 ; Warren's L. S. 388. . An Address delivered before the Members of the Suffolk Bar. Svo. Boston. 1821. 671