REPORTS OF CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY,

DURING THE TIME OF

LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, &c.

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ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY,

DURING THE TIME OF

LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW,

AND OF

THE SEVERAL LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE GREAT SEAL,

AND

LORD CHANCELLOR LOUGHBOROUGH,

From 1778 to 1794.

By WILLIAM BROWN, ESQ.

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW,

FIFTH EDITION,

WITH IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS,
FROM THE REGISTRAR'S BOOKS;

From the Author's MS. Notes in his own Copy, intended for a further
Edition; from various MS. Notes of the highest authority, by eminent
contemporary and dignified Members of the Profession.

TOGETHER WITH

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SUBSEQUENT REPORTS ON THE CASES
REPORTED BY MR. BROWN,

AND DECISIONS ON THE POINTS OF LAW TO THE PRESENT TIME,

By ROBERT BELT, ESQ.

of the inner temple, barrister AT LAW.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, LAW-PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY ;
FOR HENRY BUTTERWORTH, LAW-BOOKSELLER,
No. 7. FLEET STREET, BETWEEN THE TEMPLE GATES;

AND R. MILLIKEN, DUBLIN.

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BODI.

PREFACE

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MR. BROWN'S FOURTH VOLUME.

IT

T seems necessary to inform the Profession, that the last part of
the Fourth Volume, which concludes the Work, was printed in
the life-time of the late Mr. Brown, down to the case of Collis v.
Swayne, p. 480: the remainder, (except some trivial omissions, a
part of the INDEX OF CONTENTS, and the TABLE OF CASES,) was
left complete for publication.

A professional friend of the deceased, anxious to pay this last
tribute of respect to departed merit, has undertaken to supply
those omissions and superintend the correction of the press. It is
hoped, that this posthumous part will meet with the like favourable
reception, as the former ones, and that such an interference will
not prejudice the credit of a work, which although it may partake
of that frailty so necessarily incident to human productions, must
be esteemed, as a valuable collection of many important decisions,
and remain a memorial of the meritorious industry of the very
learned and truly respectable reporter.

Middle Temple,
July, 1794.

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