ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN

The High Court of Chancery,

DURING THE TIME OF

LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW,

OF THE SEVERAL

LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE GREAT SEAL,

AND OF

LORD CHANCELLOR LOUGHBOROUGH,

FROM 1778 TO 1794,

WITH

AN APPENDIX OF CONTEMPORARY CASES.

BY WILLIAM BROWN, Esq.

BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. I.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

WITH

REFERENCES TO FORMER AND SUBSEQUENT DETERMINATIONS,
AND TO THE REGISTER'S BOOKS.

BY THE

HON. ROBERT HENLEY EDEN,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR W. CLARKE AND SONS, R. PHENEY, C. HUNTER,
S. SWEET, AND S. BROOKE.

S. BROOKE, Printer,

35, Paternoster Row, London.

MOTHER

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE

FOURTH EDITION.

THE Reports of Mr. BROWN, having been for some time out of print, the Editor has undertaken to prepare the present Edition for publication. To effect this object, in a manner that may render it worthy of the approbation of the Profession, he has revised the original Work with the greatest attention. He has added, to every case, notes of decisions, brought down to the latest period; and wherever he thought that it might be useful, has subjoined a short digest of the doctrine, as subsequently varied or established. He has also consulted the Register's Book, in every instance in which he found that the correctness of the printed report had been doubted, or where it appeared to himself to be unsatisfactory.

The value of the present Edition will be found to be considerably augmented by the addition of the manuscript Notes of Mr. Serjeant HILL, with which the Editor has been kindly favored.

Lincoln's Inn, May 10th, 1819.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDWARD LORD THURLOW,

BARON THURLOW OF ASHFIELD,

IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c. &c.

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS

ARE,

WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT AND DEFERENCE,

INSCRIBED.