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
Praxis almae curiae cancellariae : in two volumes : being a collection of precedents, by bill and answer, plea and demurrer, in causes of the greatest moment (wherein equity hath been allowed) which have been commenced in the High Court of Chancery, for more than 30 years last past : with appeals (in several cases of great difficulty) to the House of Peers in Parliament, and the proceedings thereupon : also, a compleat collection of all the writs and process concerning the same, together with a praeliminary discourse, by way of rules, succinctly and methodically drawn up, containing the practice of the said court, in every particular branch of the equitable part thereof
Reports of cases taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the reigns of King Charles I., Charles II., and James II. : being special cases and most of them decreed with the assistance of the judges, and all of them referring to the register books : wherein are setled several points of equity, law, and practice : to which are added learned arguments relating to the antiquity of the said Court, its dignity, power, and jurisdiction : as also the great case between the Dutchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bathe : in two volumes
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 practical register in Chancery, or, A compleat collection of the standing orders and rules of practice in Chancery : together with the ruled points of practice there, collected from the printed Chancery cases, reports, and practical books, and from observation and experience : as also, the alterations made in practice by all the statutes to this time, and by usage and custom : the whole is interspers'd with rules and observations touching the drawing of bills, answers, and other pleadings : which render it useful not only to attorneys and sollicitors, but to all practicers and gentlemen that have business at that bar
Compleat collection of the standing orders and rules of practice in Chancery
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of E. Sayer, for D. Brown, in Exeter-Exchange in the Strand, W. Mears at the Lamb, and J. Brown at the Black Swan, without Temple-Bar, and J. Woodward in Fleet-street,
Date of Publication
1714.
Physical Description
viii, 365, [11] p. ; 19 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]â´ B-2A⸠2Bâ´.
Includes index.
Advertisement on page [ii].
Genealogy of Thomas Hunt Senior on back of front cover.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 525 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
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 attorney's practice in the Court of King's Bench, or an introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that Court, as it now stands under the regulation of several late acts of Parliament, rules and determinations of the said Court : with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, settled or drawn by counsel, and a complete index to the whole
The Practice of the High Court of Chancery unfolded : with the nature of the several offices belonging to that court, and the reports of many cases wherein relief hath been there had, and where denied, never heretofore published
Symbolæography, which may be termed the art, description or image of instruments, extra-iudiciall, as, couenants, contracts, obligations, conditions, feffements, graunts, wills, &c. : Or the paterne of præsidents. Or the notarie or scriuener
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.