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
The constitution of England, or, An account of the English government; in which it is compared, both with the republican form of government, and the other monarchies in Europe
The new instructor clericalis : stating the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of the Court of King's Bench, with directions for commencing and defending actions, entering judgments, suing out executions, and proceeding in error, to which are added, the rules of the court, modern precedents and several other matters necessary to be known by attornies and their clerks, in town and country, the whole illustrated by useful notes and observations from the best authorities
The new instructor clericalis, stating the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of the Court of Common Pleas : with directions for commencing and defending actions, entering up judgments, suing out executions, and proceeding in error : to which are added, the rules of the court, modern precedents, and several other matters necessary to be known by attornies and their clerks
Essays upon I. The Law of Evidence. II. New Trials. III. Special Verdicts. IV. Trials at Bar. and V. Repleaders. In three volumes. By John Morgan, of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law
Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatureat top of title page.
Book numbers 1001, 1002, and 1003 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Contents
Vol. 1: Containing the law of evidence. -- vol. 2: Containing the first VIII. Divisions of the IId. Essay. -- vol. 3: Containing the IXth Division of Essay II. with Essays III. IV. and V.
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
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.