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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court.

4 Bouv. Inst, note 4237. See Hopk. 112; 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 183; 4 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 364.