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DYE Geo. IV. It is a running Commentary on the principal Statutes, in which Lord Coke's celebrated exposition of the Statutes, in his II. In- stitute, as far as it extends, is essentially incorporated." 1 Kent's Com. 469, n.; 2 L. O. 307, 324 ; 4 L. M. 25. DWARRIS, FORTUNATUS. Substance of the three Reports of the Commission of Inquiry, into the Administration of Criminal Justice in the West Indies. 8vo. London. 1827. DYER, G. Letters on the English Constitution. 8vo. London. a 1817. DYER, SIR JAMES. Three Readings : I. Sir James Dyer's, on the Statute of Wills, 32, 34, 35, Hen. VIII. ; II. Sir John Bro- grave's, on the Statute of Jointures, 27 Hen. VIII. ; HI. Tho- mas Risden's, on the Statute of Forcible Entries, 8 Hen. VI. 4to. London. 1648. . Les Reports des divers Select Matters el Resolu- tions des Reverend Judges et Sages del Ley, en le several Reignes de Hen. VIII., Edw. VL, Mar. et Eliz. fol. London. 1688. No Reports have been so frequently reprinted, and none have received higher homage than Sir James Dyer's, although they were not fitted, and, as Lord Coke intimates, were not designed for the press by their author. " By reason of his place and office which he furnished and executed until his death, and about important causes for the most part of his time so imployed, that he wanted time and leisure to polish and beautify the said Cases with more large arguments which he had in full purpose to have done, had not death prevented him ; and yet hath he for the most part so sufficiently reported the same, as unto the painfull and diligent student they will both now sufficiently delight to read, and afford plentifuU store of matter worthie his travaile." The author be- queathed the MS. to his nephew, Richard Farwell, who published it in fol., 1585. The volume was reprinted without any changes till the sixth edition, 1668. This was edited by Chief Justice Treby, Avho added notes and references, and among them, reports of Cases no where else to be found. The notes were carefully prepared by a Judge of great ability and legal attainments, and are held to be of equal authority to the Re- ports. The earlier Cases in Dyer are obviously borrowed from some other collection, and the published edition differs from the MS. copy that Lord Coke possessed and cites, which he says is the very original written with Dyer's own hand. The edition of Dyer's Report most in use in modern times, is t^e English translation, made by John Vaillant, and published in 3 vols., 8vo., London, 1794. The translation was made after comparing the 284