OR, SELECT CASES ADJUDGED IN THE COURTS OF KING'S BENCH, AND EXCHEQUER, VOLUME THE SECOND; CONTAINING, A Collection of Several Special Cafes, most of them adjudged in the Court THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED: WITH THE ADDITION OF MARGINAL REFERENCES AND NOTES, By THOMAS LEACH, Efq. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, E. AND R. BROOKE ; 1. WEITE, DUBLIN. 1793: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERS, BARON OF EVESHAM, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND. MY LORD, W HEN both the favour and severity of the laws were, by partial and unusual methods, applied to the perfons, and not to the cafes, of the accufed; when the life and honour of an unfortunate man depended on the arbitrary dictates of fome men in ' authority; and when the fentence pronounced was more criminal than the offence of which the party was too easily convicted; then was YOUR LORDSHIP AS far from any advancement to a judicial office, as your judgment and inclinations were from the approbation of fuch proceedings: but no fooner were places of honour and profit in the law made the unfought rewards of good and learned men, than YOUR LORDSHIP'S merits entitled you to both; whofe moderation and VOL. II. temper 2 |