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POW tion whatsoever, in any Court of Record within this Kingdome, &c. 4to. London. 1630. POWELL, THOMAS. A Direction for Search of Records re- maining in the Chancerie, Tower, and Exchequer; with the ac- customed Fees of Search, and divers necessarie Observations. 4to London. 1G22. . The Repertorie of Records remaining in the Four Treasuries on the receipt side at Westminster, &c.; with a brief introductive Index of the Records of the Chancery and Tower. 4to. London. 1031. POWELL, J. J. An Essay on the Learning respecting the Crea- tion and Execution of Powers, and also respecting the Nature and Effect of Leasing Powers. 2d ed. 8vo. London. 1799. To Mr. Powell belongs the merit of first collecting and systematizing the decisions upon the subtle doctrines of Powers. He explains the principles with considerable learning and ingenuity, but his work is now rarely used, since the appearance of the very able treatises of Mr. Sug- den and Chance. Chancellor Kent says, " from the want of proper divisions of the subject, and resting-places for the student, and from the insertion of cumbersome cases at large, this was always a very repulsive work, and provokingly tedious and obscure. I used, in my earlier days, to make short excursions into it, as into a kind of terra incognita ; but I always returned with jaded spirits and roused indignation." 4 Kent's Cora. 328, n. ; 1 Bart. Conv. 38 ; 2 Mart. Conv. 37. . A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages. 6th edition, by T. Coventry. 3 vols. 8vo. London. 1826. Reprinted with Notes, by B. Rand. 3 vols. 8vo. Boston. 1828. The author collected with commendable industry, the cases pertaining to this important subject, and wrought up his materials with skill, learn- incr and sound iucftjment. " He contrived to introduce more general law than is, perhaps, to be found in any other single treatise upon any legal subject." The contributions by the English and American editors are spoken of as follows, by the Commentator upon American Law — The law concerning notice express and implied, is very amply discussed by Mr. Coventry in his notes to Powell on Mortgages ; and the American editor, Mr. Rand, has, with a thorough accuracy, collected all the cases and decisions in this country appertaining to the subject. The immense body of English learning with which Mr. Coventry has enriched every part of the original work of Mr. Powell, is not only uncommon, but very extraordinary. There never were two editors who have been more 581