Reports of Cases in Equity
by Geoffrey Gilbert
Sir Geoffrey (sometimes Jeffray or Jeffrey) Gilbert (1674–1726) is probably better known to legal history for his treatises rather than his case reports. Gilbert joined the bar in 1698 and became judge of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland then Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland in 1715.[1] In 1722, after resigning his office in Ireland, Gilbert was appointed baron of the English Court of Exchequer. His case reports were published anonymously and posthumously but Gilbert's contemporaries had no doubt of the author, "That the Reports of Cases in Equity came out of [Gilbert's] study is most certain."[2] At least one more recent author contends that the attribution may be misplaced, "Reports of Cases in Equity … by a Late Learned Judge (1734) include some of Gilbert's draft judgments, but also some reports which cannot be by him."[3]
Bibliographic Information
Author: Geoffrey Gilbert.
Title: Reports of Cases in Equity: Argued and Decreed in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, Chiefly in the Reign of King George I ... to which are Added Some Select Cases in Equity, Heard and Determined in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland.
Publication Info: In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer, esq;) for D. Browne and J. Shuckburgh, 1742.
Edition: Second edition.
Extent: 303 pages.
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References
- ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:140.
- ↑ Charles Viner, A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested under Proper Titles with Notes and References to the Whole, (Aldershot: Printed for the Author, by Agreement with the Law-Patentees, 1741-1753), 18:Preface.
- ↑ M. Macnair, "Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674–1726)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 7 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)
