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GIL account of the rise and progress of Uses down to 27 Hen. VIII. 3 Co. Lit. 271, b ; I Kent's Com. 511 ; Hoff. Leg. Stud. 271 ; Bart. Conv. 24. GILHERT, SIR JEFFREY. The Law of Devises, Revocuiions, and Last Wiils ; to which is added choice Precedents of Last "Wills. 3d ed. 8vo. London. 1773. . Cases in Law and Equity, argued, debated, and adjudged in the King's Bench and Chancery, in 12 & 13 Queen Anne, temp. Lord Chief Justice Parker; with two Treatises, the one on the Action of Debt, the otiier on the Constitution of Eng- land. 8vo. London. 1700. "There are one or two important Cases, and so well reported, as not to be unworthy of him ; but in general they are loose notes very badly edited." Gilb. Evid. by Loft, Pref. 28. . Reports of Cases in Equity, argued and decreed in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, chiefly in the Reign of Geo. L ; to which are added some select Cases in Equity, heard and determined in the Court of Exchequer, in L'eland. 2d ed. fol. London. 1742. "That the Reports of Cases in Equity came out of his Lordship's study is most certain ; that the copy thereof was purchased by one of the Patentees of a person who had no right or authority to dispose of it is equally certain ; and I have very good reason to think, that had his lordship been living, he would no more have consented to its publication than did his representative, who, (as I have been told) exhibited a bill in Chancery against the publisher. Nor could I ever find that any one book ascribed to his lordship, was ever published by the previous con- sent of any person entitled to give it." Serjeant Wynne quoted a case as an authority, from the first edition of these Reports, in the C. P., 1734, when " the Court exploded the book, and told the Serjeant they hoped he would quote Cases from some better authority." It appears that some value was attached to the volume by the profession, since it soon passed to a second edition. Pref. 18 Viner's Abridg. ; Clarke's Bib. Leg. 3G0. . Gilbert's History and Practice of Civil Actions in the Court of Common Pleas ; being an Historical Account of the Parts and Order of Judicial Proceedings ; with an Litroduction on the Constitution of England. 3d ed., corrected, with new Notes, &c. 8vo. Xondon. 1779. " Books of Practice, as they are called, arc all pretty much on a level, in point of comparison and solid instruction, so that that which bears 333