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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.

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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-
thing which may be fairly judged of practical utility.
The first case in this volume happens to be a rather
curious example of the sort of decisions on points not
yet finally settled which, however much one may think
they would not now be followed, it would not be safe
to pass over. There are other cases again, such as
Goodright v. Rigby, p. 564, or Roe v. Baldwere, p. 550, |
which look obsolete at first sight to a generation brought
up under the Conveyancing Acts, but on which the
validity of many titles may still depend. Now and then
short explanatory notes have been added to show why a
case is retained.

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.

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