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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: an agreement, what a Court of law does is to give compensation in money, which shall amount to an equivalent to that which the agreement had stipulated should be performed.' The whole scope and object of this bill are for a purely money demand; and it is admitted by the plaintiff's counsel during their struggle against the very obvious objections to this bill with which they have had to contend, that if the mere amount of profits was ascertained, they would be entitled to recover that amount by an action at law; shewing that all that is asked from this Court in the shape of relief under the jurisdiction of specific performance is a compensation in money on the footing of an account.1 Sir J. Stuart, V. C.?Order that, the defendants not asking for costs, the bill be dismissed. Section 2. Concurrent Jurisdiction. PETER v. RICH. In Chancery, 1630. 1 Reports in Chancery 34.] That the Plaintiff and Defendant with one Southcot and Grimes became bound to the Lord Ruff el in two Bonds of 1600 I. apiece for payment of 8001., 1001. being Purchase Mony, and the Plaintiff and Defendant entred into two Counterbonds to the said Southcot for his Indempnity, and the first Bond of 800 I. was paid, and the Plaintiff and Defendants Richard Sheppard came to account, upon which the Plaintiff appeared to have paid all his part of the said Purchase Mony save 40 I. for which the Plaintiff gave the Defendant Rich alone a Bond of 80 I. and thereupon was to be freed by the said Defendants of the 800 Z. Bond, and was to give over the said Purchase wholly unto them; yet notwithstanding 100 I. of the said Purchase Mony being not paid, the Plaintiff was compelled to pay the same, being formerly bound with the Defendants in the said Bond of 1600 I. together with 5 I. Interest thereof, which sai...
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