Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- Equity and equities: The Nature, History and Courts of equity -- Equities -- The Maxims of equity -- Priorities -- Assignment of choses in action -- Trusts: Definition and classification of trusts -- Express private trusts -- Express public( or charitable) trusts -- Implied or resulting trusts -- Constructive trusts -- Appointment, retirement and removal of trustees -- Breach of trust -- Administration of assets: Introduction -- Collection and realisation of assets -- Payment of debts -- Distribution of the assets -- Remedies -- Legacies -- Donationes mortis causa -- Securities: Nature of mortgages -- Rights of the parties -- Remedies of the mortgagee -- Discharge of mortgages -- Priorities of mortgages -- Limitation of mortgages -- Equitable mortgages and charges -- Mortgages of pure personality -- Pledges -- Liens -- Suretyship -- The Equitable doctrines: Conversion -- Reconversion -- Election -- Performance -- Satisfaction -- The Equitable protection: Married women -- Infants -- Persons of unsound mind -- Penalties and forfeitures -- Accident -- Fraud -- Equitable estoppel -- Equitable remedies: Specific performance -- Rescission -- Delivery up and cancellation of documents -- Rectification -- Account -- Injunction -- Receivers.