Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery

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"The different Parts of this book possess unequal merit. The first two... are characterized by Chancellor Kent 'as lose 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.'" [1]

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

Edition:

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.

References

  1. Wallace, The Reporters (1883) 479, see also 477-78.