OF

CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN

THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS,

AND

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER,

AND

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS;

FROM EASTER TERM 36 GEO. III. 1796,
TO TRINITY TERM 39 GEO. III. 1799,

BOTH INCLUSIVE.

With Tables of the Cafes and Principal Matters.

BY JOHN BERNARD BOSANQUET,
OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW;
AND CHRISTOPHER PULLER,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW.

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN,

LAW PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

FOR J. BUTTERWORTH AND SON, FLEET-STREET; AND
J. COOKE, ORMOND-QUAY, DUBLIN.

1814.

JUDGES

OF THE

MMON

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,

DURING THE PERIOD CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.

Right Honourable Sir JAMES EYRE, Knt., Lord Chief Juftice.
Honourable Sir FRANCIS BULLER, Bart.

Honourable JOHN HEATH, Efq.

Honourable Sir GILES ROOKE, Knt.

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THE REPORTERS having now completed the First Volume of this

Work, are anxious to express their gratitude to all thofe by whom they have been kindly encouraged and affifted in its profecution. In this acknowledgment they have the fatisfaction to include every individual of the Court in which they have been employed, particularly the illuftrious perfon who prefided on its bench during the period in which the following cafes were decided.

May 3d, 1800.

N.B. Thofe Cafes, of which the Names are printed in Italics with the letter n. added to the figures denoting the pages, were cited from MS. notes.