TABLE OF CASES CITED. Page Willoughby v. Willoughby Wilson, Ex parte v. Brownsmith Page 688 611 595 337 447 555 v. Pearse v. Pollard v. Townshend Winch v. James Winchcomb v. Hall 432 796 750 126. 234. 744 670, 671 Winchelsea v. Norcliffe 505. 536 Winchester v. Beavor 572 777, 778 Windham v. Windham 751 61 Windsor, re 320 559 Winged v. Lefebury 688 v. Hall 513 Winnington v. Foley 462, 464. 465 v. Lincoln v. White 557 Witter v. Witter 536 659 Witts v. Campbell 758.760.761 Whitechurch v. Whitechurch 773. 802 Whitehead, Ex parte 276.282 Whitfield, Ex parte 38. 47. 81. 86. 329. 508.550. 552 689 39. 85. 139. 164. 173. 198. 307.365 .. 732 476 426. 447 393.433 473 Wood v. Briant Wolley v. Polton v. Downes v. Richardson 423 346.408 589. 609. 643. 660 261. 322 v. Penoyre 12. 19. 35. 107. 110 507.640. 654 Widdowson v. Duck 528. 588. 590, 591, Wrottesley v. Bendish 784.787 v. Packington Wycherley v. Wycherley Wyndham v. Ennismore 31. 121. 135, 136. 256. 378 Wynch v. Wynch 268. 297. 302. 339. v. Wrottesley 246, 247 Wych v. East India Company 419. 601 506 646 v. Beal v. Boulton v. Parry 447. 601. 627. 652. 723 553.555 15 792 68. 601 Wynn v. Lord Newburgh 351.370 553, 554, 555.560 659, 660. 665.710 Y. v. Stafford v. Wilkinson 619, 700 716 Willis v. Hiscock 725 Yare v. Harrison 589 v. Robinson 747 Yea, Ex parte 321 Williams, re 474 Young v. Burdett 585 v. Bird 478 v. Combe 623. 627. 701 v. Chitty 403, 404 v. Fry 393. 505 v. Fowler v. Peachey 394 646 v. Nixon 542. 605. 607, 608. 617. 627. 631. 705. 716 v. Williams 255. 260. 344. 381. 402. 405. 639 Williamson v. Codrington 16. 313. 330. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE Jurisdiction of Courts of Equity, &c. &c. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. Of the Origin of the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Chancery over Infants. CH. I. THE origin of the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Equity over In- INTROduction. fants has been a subject of some dispute. The existence of the jurisdiction to a supreme and prerogative extent is now at least undoubted. But it seems confined to the three Courts of Chancery, and to the House of Lords; in the latter case, however, merely as a Court of Appeal, for it seems agreed, rather from want of precedent, and on the authority of dicta of the judges of the other Courts of Equity, than from any decided case, that the Court of Exchequer has no jurisdiction over infants, as such, and has only power to appoint guardians ad litem, together with that general authority, to preserve the property, to secure and protect the persons of the individuals whose rights are in litigation, and to carry into effect its determinations, which are the necessary incidents of every court of justice (a). (a) Fonblanque on Equity, 2, 230, n.; Mad. Eq. 1, 331, and the authorities there cited. B |