Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by

JAMES L. HIGH,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

ΤΟ

THE HON. THOMAS DRUMMOND,

CIRCUIT JUDGE

OF THE

United States, for the SEVENTH JUDICIAL Circuit,

WHO FOR NEARLY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAS

ADORNED THE BENCH And shed lustre upon the profESSION,

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

The jurisdiction of courts of equity by the writ of injunc tion, though of English origin, is largely the result of American growth and development. Perhaps no branch of equity jurisprudence owes more to the decisions of American courts, and the growing frequency of the use of this writ, of late years, has invested the subject with a new importance. Of the more recent text-books upon the Law of Injunctions, that of Mr. Hilliard, professing to be purely American, contains, of course, but few citations of English cases, while the English treatises of Mr. Kerr and Mr. Joyce, though complete and exhaustive so far as regards the English authorities, contain but few references to the opinions of our courts, and leave the rich field of American decisions almost untouched. And the fact that very many of the English authorities, noticeably those of recent date, are modified by statutes which are inapplicable here, has seemed to the author to create an additional necessity for a work which should be based upon the decisions of both countries, and which should present the general principles governing courts of equity, both in England and America, in the administration of preventive relief.

In the preparation of this work, the cases cited have been carefully and patiently studied, from beginning to end, without regard to the head notes, and the author has constantly en deavored to present the principles underlying the actual decis