The Law Journal Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACCOUNT AND ANALYSIS NEW 1LAW BOOKS, WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS. Article I.—Notes of Opinions and Judgments delivered in different Courts by the Right Hono... more »urable Sir John Eardly Wilmot, Knight, late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Picas, and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 4re. 403pp.—Cadell and lavies. 1802. ' I "HIS work, which is handsomely printed in quarto, with a portrait of the Chief Justice, engraved by Heath, from a picture by Dance, is introduced wii.li the following concise preface: " Some apology may be thought necessary for the publication of so small a number of cases as compose the present volume. The fact is, that some of them having been handed about in manuscript, and having been made use of iu court, a strong opinion was expressed by several gentlemen of the profession, that however few in number, they were too valuable not to be made public. " They were certainly not intended by the learned Judge for publication ; and some of them are not ported. There is no doubt but they would all have been equally valuable, if they had al! received his last correction; and still more, if his modesty had permitted him to revise them with a view to publication. As it is, the profession and the public will make allowance for the disadvantages under which they are presented to them." The selection consists of judgments and opinions in the following cases, delivered in the respective courts to which the Chief Justice was occasionally called by the duties of his office,f vizi The Editor has not given an index to the work, nor are the cases accompanied with a marginal abstract of the points determined. This we hope will be attended to in a future edition. f This volume also contains memoirs of his life, which were published se...« less