The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index
Cases in crown law, determined by the Twelve judges, by the Court of King's bench, and by commissioners of Oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery, from the fourth year of George the Second to the twenty-ninth year of George the Third. [1730-1789]
taken and compiled by the honourable Sir William Blackstone, Knt. ... ; published according to the direction in his will, from his original manuscript, by his executors ; with a preface containing memoirs of his life ; in two volumes.
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for W. Strahan, J. Pote, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman, G. Robinson, T. Cadel, J. White, W. Flexney, E. Brooke, J. Hayes, M. Hingeston, W. Fox, and Wheildon and Co.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXX [1780]
Physical Description
5 v. ; 37 cm (fol.)
Notes
Vol. 5 has misprinted imprint date of MDCLXXX.
Vol. 1: xii, 670 p.; v. 2: vii, [1], 699, [1] p.; v. 3: viii, 588 p.; v. 4: viii, 583, [1] p.; v. 5: viii. 752 p.
Includes indexes.
LC copy has binder's title: Comyns's Digest ... 2nd edition.
A complete digest of the theory, laws, and practice of insurance : compiled from the best authorities in different languages, which are quoted and referred to throughout the work ; and arranged in alphabetical order, under many select heads, with ample references, and a general index ; affording immediate and full information, on every distinct matter, question, or point
The modern practice of the High Court of Chancery : methodized and digested in a manner wholly new : interspersed with variety of the most approved and modern forms of practical precedents incidental to every suit in the progress of it, from the original bill to the decree, comprising a system of practical knowledge, according to the course of the Court as at present established
Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut : from the year 1785 to May 1788 : with some determinations in the Supreme Court of Errors
After Crompton's death the copyright of this work was purchased by Baker John Sellon who subsequently revised and expanded the work and published it under his own name as The practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas. Cf. ESTC.
Vol. 1: [8], cxv, [1], 379, [9] p. (last leaf blank); v. 2: [2], 480, [8] p.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench : in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first years of the reign of George III. [1778-1781]
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers for T. Cadell and E. Brooke,
Date of Publication
1783.
Physical Description
xiv, [32], 766, [54] pages ; 33 cm
Notes
"Additions to Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench : in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first years of the reign of George III, by Sylvester Douglas" (36 p.; published: London, Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, for T. Cadell and E. Brooke, 1786) inserted.