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Peace, Bill of. This equitable remedy sought repose from perpetual and needless litigation, and protection from a multiplicity of suits, either by establishing and perpetuating a right which the plaintiff claimed and which, from its nature, might be controverted by different persons at different times and by different actions; or where separate attempts had already been unsuccessfully made to overthrow the same right, and justice required that the plaintiff should be quieted in the right if it was already, or if it should be thereafter, established under the direction of the Court. See Sheffield Waterworks v. Yeoman, (1866) LR 2 Ch 8; Kerr on Injunctions.

The results obtained by this bill would now generally be obtained by an action in the High Court for a declaration of title and an injunction. See A.P. notes to (English) R.S.C., Ord. XXV., r. 4.