Maxims of equity, collected from and proved by cases, out of the books of the best authority in the High Court of Chancery. To which is added, the case of the Earl of Coventry, concerning the defective execution of powers. Lately adjudged in the High Court of Chancery
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
1739.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 72, [14], 20 pages 32 cm
Notes
"The arguments of the Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, the master of the rolls, Mr. Baron Price, and Mr. Baron Gilbert, in the case of the Earl of Coventry, concerning the defective execution of powers. Die sabbati 16 ÌŠmaii 1724, Countess Dowager of Coventry, against the Earl of Coventry & al.'": [2], 20 p. at end.
A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads
Printed by E. And R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for Arthur Bettesworth,
Date of Publication
1733.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 598 (i. e. 588), [40] pages 31 cm
Notes
Paging irregular; p. 357-366 omitted in numbering.
Issued anonymously; notes of cases to 1708 ascribed by Lord Hardwicke to Mr. Pooley, and from that period to Mr. Robins; in 1786 the work was edited by Thomas Finch. cf. Marvin, Legal bibl.; Wallace, The reporters; Bridgman, Legal bibl.; Viner, Abridgment.
Includes index.
Hand-written marginalia.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 703 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate of William Whitebread pasted on inside front cover.
