The Court of Chancery: a satirical poem.

A sustained satire attacks the Court of Chancery’s slow, costly, and corrupt procedures, arguing that justice is subverted by opportunistic lawyers, dilatory draftsmen, expensive counsel, and procedural formality that favor the wealthy. Through vivid scenes of modest claimants ruined by repeated filings, stalled paperwork, and mounting fees, the poem traces common litigation steps—advice, drafting, filing, injunctions, and motions—and exposes how procrastination, secrecy, and fee-seeking turn equitable remedies into lifelong burdens; prefatory remarks and brief notes frame historical and practical legal references.