A Treatise on the Court of Exchequer, In Which the Revenues of the...
Gilbert on the Practice of the Court of Exchequer [Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey (1674-1726)]. A Treatise on the Court of Exchequer: In Which the Revenues of the Crown; The Manner of Receiving and Accounting for the Several Branches of Them; The Duty of the Several Officers in the Collection and Receipt; The Nature of the Process for the Recovery of Debts Due to the Crown; Are Clearly Explained: As also Occasionally, The Nature of the Feudal and Other Antient Tenures; The Origin of Parliaments, Convocations, The Several Courts of Justice; And Many Other Curious and Useful Particulars, Are Shown. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot; for J. Nourse, 1758. xvi, 343, [1] pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece, raised bands and blind fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, offsetting to margins of preliminaries and final leaves. A handsome copy. $325. * Only edition. Gilbert was a distinguished Whig judge and legal writer who served as chief baron of the court of exchequer from 1725 until the end of his life. He wrote two treatises on that court, which were published posthumously. The Treatise is one of them. The other is An Historical View of the Court of Exchequer (1738). Both works have a systematic arrangement that anticipates the method of Blackstone's Commentaries. English Short-Title Catalogue T95586.
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