Equity Also The Forms of at Common Law; Two Courses of Lectures

Maitland, F[rederic] W[illiam], [1850-1906]. Chaytor, A[lfred] H[enry], [1869-1931], Editor. Whittaker, W[illiam] J[oseph], [1868-1931], Editor. Equity Also The Forms of Action at Common Law; Two Courses of Lectures. Cambridge, [Eng.]: University Press, 1920 reprint of the 1909 first edition. xv, 412 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettered spine and blind frames to boards. Moderately worn and rubbed with some fading to spine. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to front pastedown. Some offsetting to endpapers. Number stamp to verso title page, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy. $95. * As the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, F. W. Maitland lectured on equity at Cambridge for 18 years, ending in 1906. The lectures were first published in 1909 under the editorship of A. H. Chaytor and W. J. Whittaker. Contents: Lectures on Equity. 1. The Origin of Equity (I); 2. The Origin of Equity (II); 3. Uses and Trusts; 4. The Modern Trust; 5. Creation of a Trust; 6. Trusts Implied, Resulting and Constructive; 7. The Rights and Duties of Trustees; 8. The Duties of Trustees; 9. The Nature of Equitable Estates and Interests (I); 10. The Nature of Equitable Estates and Interests (II); 11. The Nature of Equitable Estates and Interests (III); 12. The Present Relations of Equity and the Common Law; 13. The Remedies for Breach of Trust; 14. Satisfaction and Ademption; 15. Administration of Assets (I); 16. Administration of Assets (II); 17. Conversion; 18. Election; 19. Specific Performance; 20. Injunctions; 21. Mortgages; Seven Lectures on the Forms of Action. …