The Delaware Court Of Chancery: A 225-Year Retrospective

By Jack Jacobs (September 27, 2017, 4:05 PM EDT) -- The Delaware Court of Chancery is celebrating the 225th anniversary of its creation as that state's court of exclusive equity jurisdiction. Although today, that court is viewed as one of the world's pre-eminent expositors of business enterprise law, that outcome would never have been envisioned when the court was constitutionally established in 1792. Indeed, its formation was counterhistorical, its original form was modest, and its evolution to a far grander institution occurred only because of a cumulation of unrelated historical accidents....

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