# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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broken down the ancient boundary between the
Court and the Officers of the Court and to
have produced the effects already mentioned
which are gaining ground daily—for although
the Council on the Upper Bench have for
some time past been much in the habit
of ordering the proceedings of the Court, yet
until very lately it was not claimed or
insisted upon as a matter of right—

The Amalgamation before mentioned has also
had the effect of introducing a new kind of
language into the Court- the name of "Chancellor"
is become obsolete and the fashionable phrase
or order of the day is "the Members of the Court"

The practice and proceedings of the Court of
Chancery appear in many respects to have
been improved since the Revestment and
have been brought to assimilate very much
to the practice and proceedings of the Court
of Chancery in England— But here I humbly
beg leave to observe that the practice of
granting Injunctions without affidavit is