[1063] Bishop, First Book, §§ 51-59; idem, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, § 117.
[1064] The expression "all laws" is used advisedly. Though "in some of the American cases the term 'common law' is used, the broad meaning of the term, not its narrow and technical one, is intended."—Bishop, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, § 119; citing C. v. Knowlton, 2 Mass. Rep., 530, 534: Sackett v. Sackett, 8 Pickering, Reports, 309, 316. Cf. Jefferson, Works, VI, 65; VIII, 374, 379; IX, 282.
[1065] Bishop, op. cit., I, §§ 115-37, where the authorities for each step in the argument are cited.
[1066] Ibid., §§ 119, 109. See Latour v. Teesdale, 8 Taunt., Eng. Com. Pleas Rep., 830; Rex v. Brampton, 10 East, King's Bench Rep., 282; Caterall v. Caterall, 1 Rob., Ec., 580, 581; and Lauderdale Peerage Case, 10 Law Reports, 744, 745.
[1067] On "parol separation" see Bishop, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, §§ 1203-52.
[1068] Hening, Stat., I, 303; V, 491.
[1069] This court was so called since 1662: Hening, Stat., II, 58; cf. Howard, Local Const. Hist., I, 390 ff.
[1070] June 16, 1691: Palmer, Calendar of Va. State Papers, I, 29.
[1071] 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.
[1072] Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries (1803), III, 94.