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., D.C.L., LL.D., OF LINCOLN'S INN, ASSISTED BY O. A. SAUNDERS, J. G. PEASE, AND ARTHUR B. CANE, 7 HARE; 9 COMMON BENCH; 5 EXCHEQUER; 7 DOWLING LONDON: SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE, BOSTON : LITTLE, BROWN & CO. 1906. LIBRARY OF THE NEW YOR NEW YCKZ LAW INSTITU PREFACE TO VOL. LXXXII. FOR some obscure reason the authorized reporters appear to have been particularly careless towards the middle of the nineteenth century in attending to Chancery appeals. We find some of these reported only in serial or competing reports (pp. 208, 224, 240 of this volume), and others barely mentioned without a report (pp. 69, 98, and elsewhere). The profession must have been long-suffering in those days. It is rather amusing to find Mr. W. M. James, afterwards, as Vice-Chancellor and Lord Justice, one of our most eminent equity judges, in the character of a successful defendant in a suit for specific performance: Lucas v. James, p. 147. The Free Church controversy in Scotland, which now bulks large in the reports of the House of Lords, had incidental effects in England at a much earlier stage: Att.-Gen. v. Murdoch, p. 172. In Jones v. Broadhurst, p. 351, the question whether and how far payment received from a stranger is satisfaction of a debt is discussed with much learning. It cannot be said to be perfectly settled in England. There are several important cases on negligence and allied topics. Barnes v. Ward, p. 375, is a leading decision on the duty of occupiers adjacent to high roads not to make their land a trap for persons lawfully passing on the road. In Rigby v. Hewitt and Greenland v. Chaplin (pp. 652, 655, 659) we have, it is believed, the first clear statement of the rule as to consequential damage which is now generally accepted, namely "that a person is expected to anticipate and guard against all reasonable consequences, but that he is not, by the law of England, expected to anticipate and guard |