ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. A CONSIDERABLE number of attornies having lately been admitted on the Plea Side of the Court of Exchequer, and the practice thereof altered by the recent Act of Parliament and Rules of Court, and the same not being generally known, the author (having been repeatedly applied to for information), considered it might be useful to the profession to publish a work, which would, as concisely as possible, give à general view of such practice. The object being to explain such parts as are peculiar to this Court, the Author has conceived it unnecessary to do so at full length, where it is similar to that of the other Courts of Common Law, or where it has been uniform for a great length of time; as by so doing he must have greatly increased the bulk of the work, and consequently rendered it more expensive. Being of necessity compiled with much haste, he trusts it will be received with indulgence. The Author thinks it right to add, if it should be objected that the whole of the Act of Parliament need not have been printed in the Appendix, and that some of the very common forms might not be required by London practitioners, that with respect to the first, two-thirds of the Act being directly applicable to this work, it was thought better to give it entire; and, with respect to the second, although extremely desirous of leaving out every thing that could possibly be considered superfluous, yet it having been represented to him that as this work would, in all probability be required in a part of the country, where the practice and forms of this Court are but little known, it would be necessary to retain them. The Author has forborne giving the longer and more special forms, as they are the least wanted in the country; and practitioners in London may always obtain them, from those very excellent and accurate works already published by Mr. Tidd and Mr. Archbold. The Author intended to have given a general view of the statutes, rules, and decisions relating to costs; but having been much pressed for the immediate publication of the work, he has been reluctantly compelled, for the present, to defer it. Six weeks have scarcely elapsed since the commencement of the work, and its utility would in some measure have been defeated, had it not been published by the first day of Hilary Term. 35, Bedford Place, 10th Jan. 1831. |