has been completed, and that some time having since elapsed, it becomes necessary to ascertain whether any Statute of Limitations, or any presumption from delay, constitutes any bar to the proper remedy for relief or compensation. Here are considered all the statutes of limitations, and other consequences of delay or laches, in commencing the remedy as well at law as in equity, and in bankruptcy, in cases of executors or administrators, in Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Courts, in Admiralty Courts, and in Criminal Courts; together with the prejudice incident to laches at common law, and in Courts of Equity, independently of any express limitation by statute.

In the Tenth chapter are very fully considered all the remedies at law, and in equity, or elsewhere, to compel specific relief or performance, whether as respects the rights of Persons, Personal or Real Property, and as it will obviously be frequently preferable to enforce the actual and full enjoyment of a right specifically than the mere recovery of damages in compensation for the injury, all these specific remedies are very fully and practically considered, especially as regards the extensive jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench by Mandamus, and the still more important analogous jurisdiction in Equity, by Bills for, and Decrees compelling the Specific Performance of Contracts and other rights, Bills to Account, and other specific remedies; and Bills in Equity to prevent the specific enforcement at law of Penalties and Forfeitures, or legal rights.

The full particulars of the subjects of this part may be ascertained by examining the table of contents and the Analytical Table of each chapter, and every single point or question will be found referred to in b

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the Index. As specimens of the probable utility of the undertaking, and the mode of executing it, the author begs to refer to the arrangement of the important branch of the law relating to Executors and Administrators, in pages 510 to 561-to the Defence, Resistance, and Removal of Injuries by parties themselves, in pages 586 to 669, and upon which so many questions arise, as well in actions of trespass as in the Criminal Courts to the law and practice relating to the writ of Habeas Corpus, in pages 684 to 695—to writs of Injunction, in pages 695 to 731, to the whole chapter on the Statutes of Limitations, 736 to 786-to the law and practice upon writs of Mandamus, in pages 789 to 810, and to pages 820 to 871, as respects bills for and decrees of Specific Performance. The modes of treating those important subjects the author believes are new, and he hopes they may be found in some degree worthy of attention.

The rest of the work, which states the minutiæ of the Practice of all the principal Courts of Law and Equity, and of the Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Courts, and Courts of Admiralty, &c. &c., and in Arbitrations, and in conducting Summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace, is in a great state of forwardness, and is withheld for the present merely in order that all the alterations in the law during the present sessions may be incorporated. In treating of the Practice of the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, the author has pursued the object of the Legislature and of the Judges by endeavouring to assimilate the practice of all the Courts; instead, therefore, of writing distinct chapters or parts on the separate and distinct practice of each Court, and which the author submits would

occasion unnecessary repetition) he has attempted to revive the excellent and lucid plans adopted in Crompton and Sellon's Practice, viz. of stating in one principal column the full practice of the Court of King's Bench, and then in the same page, in adjoining columns, showing the difference, if any, in the practice of the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer, and in notes subscribing the clauses of statutes, and rules and principal forms of the writs and proceedings, showing when any occasional deviation may be advisable. By this plan the Student and Practitioner may at one view, and without referring to numerous books repeating the same rules which equally apply to all the Courts, perceive the whole practice of all the courts of similar jurisdiction.

The same plan has been observed as regards the practice of the Courts of Equity, and whether the proceeding be before the Chancellor or the Vice-Chancellor, or the Master of the Rolls, or on the equity side of the Court of Exchequer.

As a distinct publication not necessarily incumbering the subscribers to the principal work, a volume of Forms or Precedents will be published with subscribed notes of practical directions how to apply them. This will contain forms of every description of Conveyance and Contract, whether relating to absolute, or relative rights, settled by the most eminent conveyancers and adapted to the law as altered in this and the preceding sessions, also the forms of every Writ and Practical proceeding at Law and in Equity, and in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, and Courts of Error and Appeal.

The author begs to acknowledge the obligations

conferred upon him by several gentlemen, officers of the courts and others, for the ready assistance and valuable information they have afforded him; and he will consider himself still further indebted to any practioner who will take the trouble of forwarding to him any further information or suggestions early in this vacation.

The author did not venture, until very flattering opinions of the first part of this work had been generally expressed, to implicate his son Henry in what might turn out a failure; but he cannot now refrain from acknowledging that, in the Fourth Chapter of the first part, relative to Real Property and Conveyancing, he derived from him much valuable practical information, which he could not otherwise have introduced, and which enables him with confidence to recommend that chapter in particular to the attention of Students and the Profession in general.

Chambers, 6, Chancery Lane,

20th June, 1833.

J. C.