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<blockquote>Apart from some scattered contemporary reports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heneage_Finch,_1st_Earl_of_Nottingham Finch]'s work was not published until a collection entitled Reports of cases decreed in the high court of chancery during the time Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards earl of Nottingham, was lord chancellor was made by William Nelson in 1725. But these cases were drawn from the books of decretal orders and thus do not supply the judicial reasons for the decisions. But Lord Nottingham had fortunately penned his own private collection of his cases which circulated in manuscript in the eighteenth century and some few selected cases were published in Swanston's Chancery Reports (1821–7). The full publication of Nottingham's reports was not achieved until they were edited and published by the Selden Society in two volumes (73, 79) in 1957 and 1961, and other treatises by him on chancery law and practice were during this period edited and printed after long obscurity. Nevertheless his status as the ‘Father of Modern Equity’ was recognized in the legal profession long before modern academic retrieval of the texts. Thus Blackstone wrote that he ‘was endued with a pervading genius, that enabled him to discover and pursue the true spirit of justice’ and that he was enabled ‘in the course of nine years to build a system of jurisprudence upon wide and rational foundations’ (Blackstone, 3.55).<ref> D. E. C. Yale, ‘Finch, Heneage, first earl of Nottingham (1621–1682)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9433, accessed 30 May 2013] </ref> </blockquote>
  
 
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by Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham

Apart from some scattered contemporary reports Finch's work was not published until a collection entitled Reports of cases decreed in the high court of chancery during the time Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards earl of Nottingham, was lord chancellor was made by William Nelson in 1725. But these cases were drawn from the books of decretal orders and thus do not supply the judicial reasons for the decisions. But Lord Nottingham had fortunately penned his own private collection of his cases which circulated in manuscript in the eighteenth century and some few selected cases were published in Swanston's Chancery Reports (1821–7). The full publication of Nottingham's reports was not achieved until they were edited and published by the Selden Society in two volumes (73, 79) in 1957 and 1961, and other treatises by him on chancery law and practice were during this period edited and printed after long obscurity. Nevertheless his status as the ‘Father of Modern Equity’ was recognized in the legal profession long before modern academic retrieval of the texts. Thus Blackstone wrote that he ‘was endued with a pervading genius, that enabled him to discover and pursue the true spirit of justice’ and that he was enabled ‘in the course of nine years to build a system of jurisprudence upon wide and rational foundations’ (Blackstone, 3.55).[1]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham

Title: Reports of Cases Decreed in the High Court of Chancery, During the Time Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, was Lord Chancellor, in Many of Which Decrees He was Assisted by Some of the Judges of the Common Law

Publication Info: London, In the Savoy: Printed for E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling, 1725.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in sheep-backed boards. Purchased from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

References

  1. D. E. C. Yale, ‘Finch, Heneage, first earl of Nottingham (1621–1682)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 May 2013