AY

OR, THE

LAW OF

ENGLAND.

CONCERNING

Juries by Nifi Prius, &c.

WITH A COMPLETE TREATISE OF

THE LAW OF

EVIDENCE,

Collected from all the Books of Reports; together with Precedents, and
Forms of Challenges, Demurrers upon Evidence, Bills of Exception,
Pleas, Puis le Darrein Continuance, &c.

THE NINTH EDITION, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS.

CONTINUED

Down to this prefent Year; together with fuch fubfequent Refolutions, as have
been given in the Courts of Westminster-Hall: The Whole put into a Method most
ufeful and easy to the Practifers.

With a full and copious Table to the whole.

Very Useful and Neceffary for all Lawyers, Attornies, and other Practifers, especially

at the ASSIZES.

Originally compiled by GILES DUNCOMBE, heretofore of the Inner-Temple,
Efq; and continued by a Careful Hand.

PRINTED FOR JOHN RICE, COLLEGE-GREEN, AND SOLD AT HIS SHOPS IN
PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE AND CHARLES-TOWN, NORTH AMERICA,

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ASTCR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1902

IN

Gentlemen,

N the dedication of books, fuch perfons fhould be chofen whofe ftudies and profeffions agree with the nature of the fubject. To prove conclufions in one fcience by the heterogene principles of another; to make a grammarian patron to a piece of the mathematicks; to dedicate a treatise of logick to a master of mufick; or a matter of practice to a man of Speculation; would not only be improper, but abfurd. You know that in the practice of the law, there is nothing of greater excellency, nor of more frequent ufe, than trials by juries. In this, our common law (and not without juft caufe) values itself beyond the imperial law, before the canon law, or any other laws in the world. And feeing the hopes and life of all the procefs, the force of the judgment and the truth, nay, the right of parties lie in the trial; 'for as one elegantly fays, qui non probat, at the trial, dicitur veritate & jure ca