Excerpt from The Principles and Forms of Practice in Civil Actions in Courts of Record Under the Codes of Procedure, Vol. 1: Adapted Also to Common Law and Equity Practice If my experience of the needs of a practitioner is like that of others, what is needed in a book of practice is not so much a survey of general principles, nor a compend of authorities, as a practical statement of the existing powers and usages of the courts in each of the various stages of litigation. My object in this work has therefore been to exhibit the powers of the court (common law, equitable, and statutory), as they are seen, so to speak, in motion, in the actual litigation of to-day. 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.