Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery

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Referred to as Chancery Reports, all three parts were published anonymously from 1693 to 1716.[1] The year 1736 marked the first time that all three parts were published together.[2] "The different Parts of this book possess unequal merit. The first two—which appear to be mere extracts from the Register's books, and as such might have been made by some person who had never been in court at all—are characterized by Chancellor Kent 'as loose and meagre, without much weight or authority;' while of the 3d Part he says, 'that some cases in it, decided by Lord Cowper, are uncommonly well reported.'"[3]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Court of Chancery, Great Britain.

Title: Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the Reign of King Charles I., Charles II., James II., William III. and Queen Anne: 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 Settled Several Points of Equity, Law and Practice.

Publication Info: In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling for J. Walthoe, 1736.

Edition: Third edition; three volumes in one.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in later three-quarter morocco over pebbled cloth with raised bands and a lettering piece to the spine and renewed endpapers. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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References

  1. John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 477. Wallace notes on page 479 that he had "newver seen any suggestion as to the authorship of any one of them, except as to the first hundred pages of Part 3d."
  2. W. S. Holdsworth, A History of English Law (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:616.
  3. Wallace, The Reporters, 479.