The Posthumous Works, Consisting of a Reading On the Statute of...
With Commentary on an Interesting Inheritance Case Fearne, Charles [1742-1794]. [Shadwell, Thomas Mitchell, Editor]. The Posthumous Works, Consisting of a Reading On the Statute of Inrollments, Arguments in the Singular Case of General Stanwix, and a Collection of Cases and Opinions. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1797. ix, [15], 468, [12] pp. Includes a twelve-page Subscriber list. Octavo (8" x 5-1/4"). Later library cloth, gilt title and library name to spine. Negligible light rubbing to extremities, library bookplate and small location label to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, early gift inscription (to W.H. Seymour from Henry Belcher) and library stamp to head of title page, library stamps to a few other leaves in text. $200. * Only edition. Fearne wrote an influential treatise on contingent remainders that was praised by Kent and Marvin. The present work was collected from his manuscripts by one of his pupils. Along with cases and opinions, it contains the reading of the Statute of Inrollments delivered in 1778 in Lyons Inn and the interesting case of General Stanwix. "Stanwix and his daughter had perished in the same shipwreck, and the question, as between their representatives, was whether either could be presumed to be the survivor; the case was compromised; but Fearne for his own amusement composed these two arguments for the two claimants.": Butler, preface to the seventh edition of Contingent Remainders cited in Holdsworth, History of English Law XII:374. English Short-Title Catalogue T140188.
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