Cases argued and determined, in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, from the year 1746-7, to 1755. : With tables, notes, and references
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.
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.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery : beginning in the sittings after Hilary term 29 Geo. III. A.D. 1789, and ending [in the sittings after Trinity term 35 Geo. III. A.D. 1795]
Vol. 20: A digested index to the nineteen volumes of Mr. Vesey's reports of cases in the High court of chancery ... by a barrister. Philadelphia, Carey, 1822.
Collected by William Mosely. Published with notes, and many thousand references, and two tables; one, of the names of the cases; the other, of the principal matters.
collected and methodized by John Tracy Atkyns ... with notes and references, and three tables; one of the several titles with their divisions, another of the names of the cases, and a third of the principal matters.
"Several of the cases are by mistake not placed in chronological order."--Preface.
"The cases in Ambler run from 1716. The earliest case (p. 581) is in that year. One (p. 520) is in 1725, one (p. 582) in 1731. The latest (p. 776) is in 1783"--J.W. Wallace, The reporters. 4th ed. 1882.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the King's Bench and Chancery : during the time in which Lord Hardwicke presided in those courts, [1733-1745]
"But one edition ... has been printed. Some copies bear the imprint of London, others of Dublin, but both are evidently printed from the same type in Dublin"--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 544 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
pt. 1. Cases in the court of King's Bench, 1733-1736 -- pt. 2. Cases in the High Court of Chancery, 1744-1745.
