Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Excerpt from A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of America: Adapted for All the States, and to the Union of Legal and Equitable Remedies Under the Reformed Procedure The purpose of the editor in preparing the present abridgment of his father's work, for the use of students in law schools, appears to call for little defense or explanation. Between one-third and two fifths of the text has been omitted, and the greater part of the notes; all except/ such as seemed essential to a clear understanding of the text. No part of the text has been re-written. By the sacrifice of some details of comparatively little importance to the American student (as in the chapters on Election, Satisfaction, and Perform ance, 461 of matters peculiar to the jurisdiction in individ ual states (as in 299 and by the free use of cross references (e. G., see 70-88, 151 it has been found possible to preserve intact those full discussions of the foundation and rationale of the various equitable doctrines which are the chief excellence of the work. The index (with some regret) has been greatly shortened; on the other hand, the chapter analyses have been retained without omissions, for the purpose of showing the author's full scheme of treatment of the various subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and its compensation. Someday All This Will Be Yours narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expectations of love and duty. Court cases offer an extraordinary glimpse of the mundane, painful, and intimate predicaments of family life. They reveal what it meant to be old without the pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes that now do much of the work of serving the elderly. From demented grandparents to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of disputed promises and broken hearts, and helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and commitments and money. From one of the bedrocks of the human condition—the tension between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the young—emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and are owed as members of a family.