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ATK ATKINSON, S. Essay on Marketable Titles, &c. The author has pretty closely followed in the arrangement of his materials, Sugden's Vendors and Purchasers, and much of the same train of argument will be found in both treatises. " Still we must not deny Mr. Atkinson the credit of having brought together much of the learning and many useful observations applicable to the subject he has treated of." I. L. M. 376. ATKINSON, GEORGE. A Practical Treatise on Sheriff Law ; containing the new writs under the new imprisonment for debt bill ; also interpleader act, reform act. Coroner's act, &c. ; with bills of sale, bonds of indemnity, &c. 8vo. London. 1839. This book is said to be an unequal performance, some parts of it being written very carefully, and others very carelessly. It has the reputation, however, upon the whole, of being a useful and convenient book. 3 Jurist, 252. ATKYNS, JOHN TRACY. Reports of Cases argued and deter- mined in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Hard- •wicke, from 1737 to 1754. 3d ed. By F. W. Sanders. 3 vols. 8vo. London. 1794. New York. 1826. These Reports have had the misfortune to be often condemned, and yet no Equity Reports have been much oftener cited. The reporter is . belabored for inaccuracy, yet he tells us, in the preface to volume second, that he has been at the trouble and expense of comparing his notes with the Register, "and have, in those instances where I thought it was necessary, taken the state of the case from thence, and in some of the nicest material, have given the substance of the decree," which exami- nation is confirmed by Mr. Sanders, the confessedly able editor of these Reports, who says: " The editor must take this opportunity, however, of observing, that he has frequently experienced his researches in the ' Register's Books anticipated by the previous labours of Mr. Atkyns. That gentleman, before the publication of his Reports, had certainly compared many of them with the records ; and this is evident, not otily from his own declaration in the preface to his second volume, but more especially as many of his statements of cases and decrees thereupon are taken, almost vcrhalim, from the Register's Books." The reporter informs us that he was not able to procure a full statement of all the cases cum aliis pertinentihus, " for where the court have been of opinion to dismiss the plaintiff's bill, the register has only made a minute of the dismis- sion, and the case at large has not been entered in the report ofiice, the parties in the suit not choosing to bo at the expense of it," — and yet this is attributed to the reporler^s inaccuracy and want of fulness in his statements of cases, which has been reiterated from the time of Lord 76