MURDOCHS CASE. 471

the injurious irregularity complained of. From the peculiar nature
of those cases, however, it is obvious that the existing and natural
state of things could not otherwise have been preserved. The
injunction, in those cases, did not command any thing to be un-
done, but merely that an injurious irregularity should not be any
longer continued, considering the continuance of the act as a repe-
tition of it. (h)

This court has always been governed by these principles in
granting injunctions in so limited a form, as expressly, or in terms
to require no alteration in the existing state of things, or any thing
to be undone or restored; except in so far as a restoration may
consequentially follow as a necessary result of the merely restric-
tive operation of the injunction. As in cases between tenants in
common, the court may, under some circumstances, by an injunc-
tion or the appointment of a receiver, prevent one of them from
taking all the profits to the absolute and total exclusion of the
other; the obvious and necessary consequence of which must be
to restore the plaintiff prospectively to the enjoyment of an impor-
tant benefit. And yet the injunction itself could not command the
defendant to undo any thing he had done; to re-instate any thing
he had altered; or to restore to the plaintiff any thing of which he
had been deprived, (i)

(h) Ryder v. Bentham, 1 Ves. 543; Robinson v, Byron, 1 Bro. C. C. 588; Anony-
mous, 1 Ves. jun. 140; Lane v. Newdigate, 10 Ves. 193; Blakemore v. The Gla-
morganshire Canal Navigation, 6 Cond. Cha, Rep. 544; Eden Inj. 238.—(i) Tyson
v. Fairclough, 1 Cond. Cha. Rep. 386.

NORWOOD v. NORWOOD.—This bill was filed on the 11th of May, 1796, by
Edward Norwood against Samuel Norwood. It states that Edward Norwood, the
father of the parties, by his last will and testament, bearing date on the 25th of
March, 1770, devised as follows :

'I give and bequeath to my dearly and well beloved wife Mary Norwood, all that
part of a tract or parcel of land called United Friendship, lying between Dry Run
and Persimmon, and northward as far as the line of the land called The Forest, for
and during her natural life and no longer. I give and bequeath to my son Edward
Norwood and my son Samuel Norwood, all the tract of land whereon I now dwell
called United Friendship, to be equally divided between them, their heirs or assigns,
forever; but in case either of my said sons should die before they come of age, then
it is my will that the survivor shall have and possess the whole tract, but not to dis-
turb my wife during her life: and if it should so happen, that both my sons Edward
and Samuel, should die before they come of age, then it is my will, that it shall be
equally divided between my three daughters and youngest son, viz: Ruth Norwood,
Elizabeth Norwood, Mary Norwood, and John Norwood, to them, their heirs and
assigns, forever.'

Some time after which the testator died, and on the 21st of January, 1772, his
will was proved according to law. By virtue of which devise, these parties became