The practick part of the law: shewing the office of an attorney, and a guide for solicitors in all the courts of Westminster: ... As also, the practice of the courts in the city of London ... With the exact table of fees of all the said courts ... with the abstract of the Parchment and Paper-Act
The fourth edition, with large additions by several practisers of the several courts, and brought down to the year 1711. With a new and exact table to the whole.
The fourth edition, with large additions by several practisers of the several courts, and brought down to the year 1711. With a new and exact table to the whole.
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
In the Savoy: printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1711.
Physical Description
[8], 599, [25]; [2], 16; [8], 120 pages ; 8vo
Notes
Originally published with the title 'The practick part of the law shewing the office of a compleat attorney . composed and collected by G.T. of Staples-Inne, and T.P. of Barnards-Inne', London, 1652, which itself was based on 'The attourney of the Court of Common Pleas. . Written by G.T. of Staples Inne', London, 1642.
Running title: 'The compleat attorney and solicitor.' - 'An abstract of the act' and 'An exact table of fees' have separate title pages, pagination, and registers; 'An abstract' has imprint: printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Tho. Newcomb: and sold by J. Walthoe, 1702; 'An exact table' is "The fifth edition, with additions."
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
"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.