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Excerpt from Points of Chancery Practice: Which, Condensed, Formed the Subject of a Lecture, Given on March 21, 1916, at the Old Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, at the Request of the Solicitors’ Managing Clerks Association Section 100 of the Judicature Act, 1873, defines an action as a civil proceeding to be commenced by a writ, or in such other manner as may be prescribed by Rules of Court; and a matter as including every proceeding in the Court not in a cause. And section 34 of the Act specifies the causes, matters, and proceedings which are thereby assigned to the Chancery Division. Any variety of action may now be brought in the Chancery Division which might have been brought in the common law Courts. The methods for commencing an action or matter in the Chancery Division of the High Court are the following. 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.