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Multiplicity. A bill in equity might have been objectionable for an undue dividing or splitting up of a single cause of suit, and thus multiplying subjects of litigation. Equity discourages unreasonable litigation. It would not, therefore, permit a bill to be brought for a part of a matter only where the whole was the proper subject of one suit. See (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 24 (7) [see now (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 43]; and as to inferior courts, see ss. 89-91 [see now (English) Jud. Act, 1925, ss.201, 202, 203].