OR,

SELECT CASES

ADJUDGED IN

THE COURTS

OF

KING'S BENCH,
CHANCERY, COMMON PLEAS,

AND

EXCHEQUER,

VOLUME THE SECOND;

CONTAINING,

A Collection of Several Special Cafes, most of them adjudged in the Court
of COMMON PLEAS from the Twenty-Sixth to the Thirtieth Year of
CHARLES THE SECOND, when Sir FRANCIS NORTH, Knight, was Chief
Juftice of the faid Court.-To which are added, Several Select Cafes
in the Courts of CHANCERY, KING'S BENCH, and EXCHEQUER,
during the faid Years.

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 ;
J. LUTTERWORTH; OGILVY AND SPEARE; AND

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