THOMAS BLENKARN (LATE CROFTS & BLENKARN), A. MILLIKEN, DUBLIN; T. CLARK, EDINBURGH. 1843. The Notes comprehend all cases, involving any point of importance, which have been determined, during the period they embrace, in the various Courts of Ecclesiastical and Maritime jurisdiction, including ruling decisions in the highest Court of Appeal, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In compiling them, the Editor has endeavoured to adhere to the direction of Lord Bacon,* in stating the cases, and in reporting the opinions of the Judges; but he has presumed to depart from it in giving abridgments, sometimes copious, of the arguments of Counsel, which are often valuable compendia of learning and research, and therefore extremely useful to the Practitioner. The Editor performs a pleasing duty in acknowledging, with gratitude, that, in every instance in which he has had occasion to seek information from any member of the Profession, it has been furnished in the most prompt, liberal, and courteous manner. December 31st, 1842. THOMAS THORNTON. * "Casus præcise, judicia ipsa exactè, perscribito; rationes judiciorum, quas adduxerint Judices, adjicito; de advocatorum perorationibus, sileto." De Augm. Scient., 1. viii. c. 3. Prefixed by Dr. Addams to his Reports. |