MODERN REPORTS; IN TWELVE VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED; AND INCLUDING Three Hundred and Eighty-One Additional Cafes, FROM THE RESTORATION OF CHARLES THE SECOND, то THE TWENTY EIGHTH YEAR OF GEORGE THE SECOND. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF GEORGE THE SECOND, IN TWELVE VOLUMES. 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. AND J. ROBINSON; E. AND R. BROOKE ; L. WHITE, DUBLIN. 1796. PREFACE то THE FIFTH EDITION OF THE MODERN REPORTS. THE HE laft Edition of THE MODERN REPORTS was published about thirty years ago, in feven volumes folio, under the aufpices of MR. PICKERING'S name; and, in the title-page, it is faid, that many thousands of new and proper references had been added. To those feven volumes the industry of several later Reporters has added five more; but in the margins of the additional volumes a very few folitary references only are to be found. The whole work, previous to the prefent edition, confifted of collections of Select Cafes in Law and Equity, from the Restoration of CHARLES THE SECOND to the death of GEORGE THE FIRST; the merit of which, and their long admitted authority in the fuperior courts, are too well known to require obfervation. The former edition having been a long time out of print, and the public demand for the work continuing to operate |