PREFACE.

THE importance to the legal profession of the
State, of the Decisions in the High Court of Chan-
cery, made by the present able and distinguished
Chancellor, has Induced the undertaking of this
work.

The design is, to publish, in consecutive volumes,
all the more important cases decided since the 21st
of December, 1846, (the date of the appointment
of the present Chancellor,) until the time, when, by
virtue of the provisions of the New Constitution,
this Court shall cease to exercise its functions.
The cases embraced in the present volume, were
originally reported for, and printed in, "The Mary-
land Free Press," a newspaper published at An-
napolis. They have been arranged and revised by
the Chancellor; and notes have been carefully pre-
pared to each, with a more full and complete index
to the volume than has yet been made to any of the
Maryland Reports.

During its preparation for the press, the work
has been submitted to the supervision of the Chan-
cellor, by whom the whole has been examined and
approved.