THE REVISED REPORTS BEING A REPUBLICATION OF SUCH CASES IN THE ENGLISH COURTS OF COMMON LAW AND EQUITY, FROM THE YEAR 1785, AS ARE STILL OF PRACTICAL UTILITY. EDITED BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., LL.D.,. CORPUS PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 2 COX-1-2 VESEY Jr. — 4-5 T. R.-1 H. Bl. - LONDON: ›WEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE, BOSTON : LITTLE, BROWN & CO. 1891. PREFA LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LIMD., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. THE present volu the continuous It now appears Age or judges it here the original ission or conden uniformly indica Where a decision PREFACE TO VOLUME II. THE present volume disposes of Cox, continues Vesey Jr. and the Term Reports, and enters with Henry Blackstone on the continuous series of reports of cases in the Common Pleas. We have now made certain minute but, we trust, not immaterial improvements in form. It now appears on the face of every decision by what judge or judges it was given, except in a very few cases where the original report is itself defective on this point.* Omission or condensation of the original reporter's matter is uniformly indicated by asterisks and square brackets respectively. And the paging by which the original reports are usually cited is continuously noted in the margin of the corresponding text, in order to facilitate ready reference in Court. No complaints have reached me of any case which is still of authority being unduly omitted in the first volume; nor yet any serious complaint of too much having been included; but as to that point it is our resolve to be * Where a decision is reported simply as given by "The Court," it ought to mean the full Court, or all the judges mentioned by the reporter as usually sitting in banc in the current term: but we cannot be sure that it always does. chargeable with superfluous caution rather than omit any- In this volume there will be found a certain number of cases of 1788-90, and one as early as 1745, from the second volume of Cox, An exact reduction of the old reporters to the chronological order to which they often paid scant regard would not, it is conceived, have been worth the trouble and delay that it would have entailed. F. P. THURL ID LOUGH LLOYD E RICHARD TED LOUGH JAMES E WILLIAM JOHN W ΔΕ ΒΕΛΙΜΟΝ EARL OF MAN RD KENTON FRANCIS SW. H. A STR NASH GR SOULDEN |