REPORT Sidd aft OF CASES ADJUDGED IN THE Court of King's Bench: WITH SOME SPECIAL CASES IN THE Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, ALPHABETICALLY DIGESTED UNDER proper HEADS; From the First Year of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, By WILLIAM SALKELD, LATE SERJEANT AT LAW. THE SIXTH EDITION: Including the NOTES and REFERENCES of KNIGHTLEY D'ANVERS, Efq. And large Additions of NOTES and REFERENCES to Modern Authorities By WILLIAM DAVID EVANS, Esq. BARRISTER AT LAW. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN AND W. WOODFALL, то EDWARD BEARCROFT, Esq. F. R. S. MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF SALTASH, IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL, ONE OF THE BENCHERS OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE INNER TEMPLE, AND CHIEF JUSTICE OF CHESTER, THIS EDITION OF SAL KEL D's REPORTS IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT, AND HUMBLE SERVANT, THE EDITOR. ADVERTISEMENT то THIS EDITION. HE Authority of the Determinations herein re THE ported, being chiefly those of that eminent Lawyer Lord Chief Justice HOLT, has occafioned a very frequent republication of this Work, the reputation of which has no doubt been promoted by the opinion generally received, that the two first Volumes were originally made public under the care of Lord HARDWICKE; having also been approved and recommended to the press by all the Judges of that period. The fubfequent Editions were much improved by the addition of numerous References to later Authorities, by Mr. D'ANVERS, and of fome others by Mr. Serjeant WILSON, which are for the most part preserved in the margin of the present Edition; to which are added a confiderable number of Notes, containing an arrangement of the principal modern Authorities on the Cafes and Points of Law occurring in these Reports. In the felection of thefe Authorities, the Editor has availed himself of the affiftance of many recent publications, but in particular of the valuable Notes A 3 |