LAW DICTIONARY, Containing both an EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS AND THE LAW ITSELF, INTENDED FOR THE USE OF The Country Gentleman, the Merchant, AND THE PROFESSIONAL MAN, By THOMAS POTTS, Gent. A NEW EDITION, Revised, corrected, and enlarged to the present Time. London: Printed for B. & R. CROSBY & Co. J. WALKER; SHERWOOD, NEELY AND JONES; T. HAMILTON; RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD ELLENBOROUGH, BARON ELLENBOROUGH, OF ELLENBOROUGH, IN THE COUNTY Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench MY LORD, IATE presumed to dedicate this trifling Work to your Lordship as most competent to judge of its public utility. The design of reducing the Law Dictionary into one small volume, will, I trust, merit the approbation of every professional man, and (should it be honoured with your Lordship's patronage) obtain that share of public favour, which would ever constitute the pride and ambition of My Lord, Your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant, THE AUTHOR Camden Town, PREFACE. A DICTIONARY of the Laws of England, undertaken with the view of arranging properly, with regard to matter, and method, and at the same time compressing into a narrow compass, the substance of the many voluminous works written on the Statute and Common Law, cannot, it is presumed, fail to be acceptable to every one, in any manner engaged in a practical department of the law. But the author of this work, has not confined it solely to the use of the professional man; as it has been both his aim and wish, to render it equally serviceable to the merchant and trader, who, amidst the variety of business, have little leisure to consult those elaborate works, which comprehend and elucidate commercial legislation, and the almost inexpressibly diversified cases which have on deter mined constructive of those laws: for their use, therefore, the most eminent writers on the Bankrupt Laws, the Innce, Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, &c, have been carefully consulted, and the inessential contents briefly given. |
