The history and practice of the High Court of Chancery : in which is introduced, an account of the institution and various regulations of the said Court, shewing likewise the ancient and present practice thereof in an easy and familiar method
by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert ; printed from a correct manuscript copy, free from the numerous errors and omissions of the Irish edition ; to which are added, many new references, and proper tables to the whole.
The new Natura brevium of the most reverend judge, Mr. Anthony Fitz-Herbert : together with the authorities in law, and cases in the books of reports cited in the margin
The eighth edition, carefully revised, some errors in the text of the last edition corrected, and the writs accurately translated into English /
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed for Henry Lintot ... and sold by J. Shuckburgh ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description
[12], 606, [42] p. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Notes
"To which is added a commentary, containing curious notes and observations on the most remarkable and useful writs, which illustrate and explain many doubtful and abstruse cases and points in the original, by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale ..."
Marginal annotations collected by Sir Wadham Wyndham. Cf. p. [5] in front.
Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
"Published with notes and references, and two tables to each volume; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters: by his son William Peere Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq."
The complete parish-officer : containing I. The authority and duty of high constables ... II. Of church-wardens, how chosen, their business in repairing of churches ... III. Of overseers of the poor, and their office ... IV. Of surveyors of the highways, and scavengers ... V. Of watchmen, their original and power : together with the statutes relating to hackney coaches and chairs, watermen, & c
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]
"There is a chasm in all the copies of the first edition of Hardres of pp. 233-300 inclusive, and the catchword at the bottom of p. 232 would indicate that something was actually omitted."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Imperfect: 1st-3d, 6th prelim. leaves wanting; supplied in photostat facsimile.
Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench, in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Second, [1737-1738]
Reports of adjudged cases in the courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer : from Trinity Term in the second year of King George I to Trinity Term in the twenty-first year of King George II i.e. 1716-1747
