A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF 7985 POWER S. BY EDWARD BURTENSHAW SUGDEN, Esq. OF LINCOLN'S-INN, BARRISTER AT LAW. FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION: WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES TO AMERICAN DECISIONS. BY EDWARD D. INGRAHAM, Esq. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ABRAHAM SMALL, No. 165, CHESNUT STREET. 1823. Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-third day of December, in the forty-seventh year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1822, Abraham Small, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the Title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words [SEAL.] following, to wit: A Practical Treatise of Powers. By Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Esq. of Lincoln'sInn, Barrister at Law. First American, from the Third London Edition: with Notes and References to American Decisions. By Edward D. Ingraham, Esq. In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned.”—And also to the Act, entitled, “An Act supplementary to An Act, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned," and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD ELDON, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, It was with great diffidence that I ventured to ask your Lordship's leave to prefix your name to this work. The extent of your Lordship's constitutional and legal knowledge, if it has ever been equaled, has certainly never been surpassed: and I naturally paused before I ventured to solicit the high sanction, which your Lordship's permission to affix your name, must give to any treatise on English Law. I felt the presumption of addressing such a request to a Judge, who has so often excited the admiration of the Bar, by a display, without effort, of an extent of knowledge in every branch of Jurisprudence, which the life of man appears to be insufficient to acquire. If these considerations deterred me from making the application, I was encouraged to it by that judicial mi''ness and gravity, that urbanity and attention to the youngest counsel in the Court-the true marks of a great mind-which operate so powerfully to make your Lordship beloved by the Bar, and soften the splendour which profound knowledge, high character and dignity, shed around you. Your Lordship has added to the obligations, which I owe to you, by the kind manner in which you have granted my request. I have the honour to be, MY LORD, With great respect, Your Lordship's very obedient, and much obliged Servant, EDWARD B. SUGDEN. Lincoln's-Inn, 18th January, 1821. |