A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF POWERS. BY EDWARD BURTENSHAW SUGDEN, Esq. ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNSEL. THE FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. & W. T. CLARKE, LAW BOOKSELLERS, ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD ELDON, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, Ir was with great diffidence that I ventured to ask your Lordship's leave to prefix your name to this work. The extent of your Lordship's constitutional and legal knowledge, if it has ever been equalled, has certainly never been surpassed and I naturally paused before I ventured to solicit the high sanction, which your Lordship's permission to affix your name, must give to any treatise on English Law. I felt the presumption of addressing such a request to a Judge, who has so often excited the admiration of the Bar, by a display, without effort, of an extent of knowledge in every branch of Jurisprudence, which the life of man appears to be insufficient to acquire. If these considerations deterred me from making the application, I was encouraged to it by that judicial mildness and gravity, that |