Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Injunctions, Vol. 2 908. Inadequacy of the remedy at law and the avoid ing of a multiplicity Of suits are strong grounds for the granting Of injunctions to protect statutory privileges of an exclusive nature. And a franchise to carry out a lottery scheme for a public purpose is so far exclusive as to come within this 'rule and to be entitled to protection by injune tion. In such case the commissioners appointed by law to carry out the purposes of the lottery are proper parties to institute an action in their own name to restrain a violation of the franchise committed to them; but the state is not a necessary party.l. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.