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62 rules and fixed precepts of equity laid down, without detroying it’s very eence, and reducing it to a poitive law. And, on the other hand, the liberty of conidering all caes in an equitable light mut not be indulged too far, let thereby we detroy all law, and leave the deciion of every quetion entirely in the breat of the judge. And law, without equity, though hard and diagreeable, is much more deirable for the public good, than equity without law; which would make every judge a legilator, and introduce mot infinite confuion; as there would then be almot as many different rules of action laid down in our courts, as there are differences of capacity and entiment in the human mind.