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Description and Holding Information
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Gilbert, Law of Evidence, 1777, 4ed
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The law of evidence; By the late Lord Chief Baron (Geoffrey) Gilbert; The fourth edition, corrected; With many additions, and a compleat table to the
whole: no named editor, 286p, London, pr. by His Majesty’s law printers for J.F. and C. Rivington et al, 1777. (The unpaginated table of contents
starts after p.286. Gilbert, d.1726, had a distinguished judicial career in both Ireland and England. During his Irish years he rose to become chief
baron of the Exchequer, and during his term in that office he and his colleagues were famously committed to the custody of the usher of the black rod by
the Irish House of Lords for granting an injunction in pursuance of an order of the English House of Lords in an appeal from the Irish courts {see
Annesley v. Sherlock, State Trials, xv, 1301-16}. Partially in reward for his loyalty to the Crown, he then advanced in the English judiciary, eventually
rising to the position of chief baron of the Exchequer in that jurisdiction. He was a prolific writer, his works including reports in equity;
histories of the Courts of Exchequer, Common Pleas, and Chancery; and treatises on uses and trusts, tenures, devises, ejectments, distresses, executions,
rents, remainders, and evidence. His work in the latter area earned the highest praise from Blackstone, who called it “a work which it is impossible to
abstract and abridge without losing some beauty and destroying the chain of the whole.”)
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Title:
The law of evidence / by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
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OCLC Number:
83311356
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | Yes |
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