Ch.  Dec.  97.]

2  Gilb.  Forum  Rom.  ch.  11,  p.  192,  &c. ;  Eden  on  Injunct.  ch.  14,  p.  290,
&c. ;  1  Wooddes.  Lect.  7,  p.  206.  It  has  been '  remarked  by  Mr.  Eden,  that
wherever  a  plaintiff  appears  entitled  to  equitable  relief,  if  it  consists  in  restrain-
ing the  commission  or  the  continuance  of  some  act  of  the  defendant,  a  Court  of
Equity  administers  that  relief  by  injunction.  In  many  cases  it  enforces  it  by
means  of  the  process  of  a  writ  of  injunction,  properly  so  called.  But  he  pro-
ceeds to  remark :  "  But  as  the  known  forms  of  that  remedy  are  by  no  means
adapted  to  every  case,  in  which  the  Court  ha^  jurisdiction  to  interpose,  the  pro-
hibition has,  in  numerous  cases,  been  issued  and  conveyed  in  the  shape  merely
of  an  order  in  the  nature  of  an  injunction.  And  as  the  Court  treats  the  neglect
or  disobedience  of  all  orders  as  a  contempt,  and  enfbrces  the  performance  of
them  Ify  imprisonment,  the  object  sought  is  equally  attained  by  an  order  of  this
nature  as  by  a  writ.  The  distinction  is  consequently  disregarded  in  practice,  and
these  orders,  though  not  enforced  by  means  of  the  writ  of  injunction,  have
indiscriminately  obtained  the  name  of  injunctions."  Eden  on  Injunct.  ch.  14,
p.  290.
