THE

LAWS AND JURISPRUDENCE

OF

ENGLAND AND AMERICA,

DILLO N.

Author of Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations; Member L'Institut de
Droit International; late Professor of Real Estate and Equity Jurisprudence in
Columbia College Law School; formerly Circuit Judge of the United States for the
Eighth Judicial Circuit, and Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of
Iowa.

Finis et scopus quem leges intueri, atque ad quem iussiones et sanctiones suas
dirigere debent, non alius est quam ut cives feliciter degant. - BACON: De Aug.
lib. viii. aph. 5.

There are two, and only two, foundations of law-equity and utility. Burke,
Tract on the Popery Laws.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1894.