Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer, From the Beginning...
Includes a Decision Disputed by Mansfield Bunbury, William. Wilson, George, Editor. Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer, From the Beginning of the Reign of King George the First, Until the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second. By William Bunbury, Esq; Late of the Inner Temple. Taken in Court by Himself, And Published from His Own Manuscript by His Son in Law, George Wilson, Serjeant at Law. Dublin: printed for Sarah Cotter, 1756. viii, 348, [40] pp. Final leaf is publisher advertisement. Folio (12-1/4" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style retaining existing lettering piece, hinges mended. Some negligible nicks and small scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and somewhat worn, later armorial bookplate of William Paine Sheffield to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in a few places. $450. * Reissue of the first edition, London, 1755. Lord Mansfield thought these reports merely loose notes. "But Mansfield, in this as in other cases, was rather too ready to decry a set of reports because they contained a decision which was contrary to his own view of the law in the particular case before the court...Against Mansfield's condemnation we can set the opinions of Platt and Parker who recognized these reports as authoritative in 1853" (Holdsworth). A member of a distinguished New England family, Sheffield [1820-1907] was a United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island. Holdsworth, History of English Law XII:137-138. Wallace, The Reporters 419-420. English Short-Title Catalogue T176392.
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