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Description and Holding Information
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Gilbert, Law of Evidence, 1760, 2ed
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The law of evidence; By a late learned judge; The second edition, corrected and many new references added; With a compleat table to the whole: no
named editor, 289+(75)p, London in the Savoy, pr. by Catherine Linton, law printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty for W. Owen, 1760. (The
unpaginated table of contents starts after p.289. The “late learned judge” was Lord Chief Baron Geoffrey Gilbert, d.1726. Gilbert 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 seminal 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 a late learned judge.
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OCLC Number:
84908673
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | Yes |
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