ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

THIS is the first volume in our proposed series of reprints from the ENGLISH CHANCERY REPORTS. The series begins with Macnaghten and Gordon's Reports, and closes with the Reports of De Gex, Jones, and Smith; filling up the entire gap between the second volume of Phillips's Reports and the first volume of the Law Reports. This, and the other volumes which we propose to reprint, contain the reports of cases heard and determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court of Appeal in Chancery. They are enriched with the carefully prepared and authoritative judgments of some of the most eminent Judges who have ever presided in the Court of Chancery. The great fame of Lord COTTENHAM, Lord TRURO, Lord CRANWORTH, Lord CHELMSFORD, Lord ST. LEONARDS, Lord CAMPBELL, and Lord WESTBURY, — all of whom have, by turns, adorned and illustrated the Court of Chancery during the time covered by these Reports,—is a sufficient guaranty of the merit and value of the Reports, and at the same time a full justification of the publishers in now offering them, in the form adopted, to the legal profession.

These Reports are published entire, without any alteration or diminution of the text or notes. The original vol