A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity
by Court of Chancery, Great Britain
Considered the "most important" of the equity abridgments of the eighteenth century,[1] Equity Cases Abridged was mostly likely written by Matthew Bacon, author of A New Abridgment of the Law. "The evidence for this fact is partly indirect—cases from Equity Cases Abridged are copied literally in Bacon's Abridgment; and partly direct—Sir William Lee stated in his copy of Equity Cases Abridged that it was written by Bacon."[2] Others have attributed at least the first volume to Pooley[3] The two volumes enjoy divergent reputations. The cases in volume one "are reported by a good lawyer, who understood perfectly well the decisions he was reporting; and the volume often renders clear and sensible cases which in Vernon are unintelligible or very improbable."[4] The second volume "stands less well than the 1st. It was spoken of disrespectfully ..."[5]
Bibliographic Information
Author: Court of Chancery, Great Britain.
Title: A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity: Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c.
Publication Info: In the Savoy: H. Lintot, 1756.
Edition: Second edition, volume one; first edition, volume two.
Extent: Two volumes.
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Ca. in Eq.abridged. 2.v. fol. and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
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References
- ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:171.
- ↑ Holdsworth, A History of English Law, 172.
- ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., rev. and enl., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 490.
- ↑ Wallace, The Reporters, 491.
- ↑ Ibid.
