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CHA leading characteristic of the work is, that it is never likely to involve a party in litigation by too bold a statement of the law." It required no ordinary nerve to traverse a field so ably occupied by Sir E. Sugden, some of whose positions Mr. Chance has very successfully refuted. The controversial style, however, in a legal work, if carried too far, leads an author into discursive remarks, satisfactory perhaps to himself, but profitless to his readers. This defect is occasionally perceivable in the treatise under consideration. 1 Legal Examiner, 445 ; 7 L. M. 115 ; 3 L. 0. 272. CHANCE, HENRY. Supplement to the same, bringing the Enact- ments and Cases down to 1841. 8vo. London. 1841. CHANCERY. Cases in Equity dnring the time of Lord Chan- cellor Talbot, 7th, 8th, 9th, ond 10th Geo. H., with References to the Proceedings in the Court, and to later Cases. By J. G. Williams. 2d ed. 8vo. London. 1792. This collection was first published in 1741, an,d again in 1753, in folio. The Cases are well reported, and have a reputation for accuracy. " The collection is well known to have been taken from the notes of Mr. Forrester, a gentleman of considerable eminence in the profession, in his time; and though originally published under no inconsiderable disadvantage, without the sanction of the author's name, has, notwith- standing, from the moment it first met the public eye, been held in hiwh estimation for the decisions contained in it, the distinguished ability of the judge who pronounced them, and the accuracy with which they have been communicated to posterity." They are sometimes cited as For- rester's Reports. 1 Kent's Com. 493 ; Bridgman's Bib. ; Preface to the Reports; Simpson's Study of the Law Ch. 9. . Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery, from 12 Charles H., to 4th James H. Carefully cor- rected from the errors of the former impressions; to which are now added proper Notes and References, with many new Cases. 3 parts, folio. London. 173rj. 8vo. New York. 1828. "The cases of Locknert). Strode, 2 Chan. Ca. is, as most of the others are in the same book, grossly misrepresented." Chancellor Kent calls them " loose, meagre, and inaccurate reports, though the great case of the Duke of Norfolk, and the case of Bath and Montague, at the con- clusion of the Cases in Chancery, are distinguished exceptions to this complaint, and those great cases are fully and very interestingly re- ported." Lord Manners, in speaking of the first volume, says, "it is a book of very doubtful authority" ; and Lord Redesdale thinks they are "very incorrect." They are cited as Chancery Cases and Serj. 183