Note 1071 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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Case of Purcell v. Purcell (1810), 4 Hen. and Munf., Reports, 506-19. "It is not commonly thus assumed that a court of equity will take jurisdiction of a subject simply because the common law tribunals do not."—Bishop, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, § 1398, note 5; Story, Equity Jurisprudence, § 62.