BEL BELLERS, F. Delineation of Universal Law ; being an abstract of an Essay towards deducing the elements of universal law, from the principles of knowledge and nature of things, in five books. I. Of books in general. II. Of private law. III. Of criminal law. IV. Of the law of magistracy. V. Of the law of nations. 3d ed. 4to. London. 1754. This is a very curious production. It can liardly be called a book, being merely a table of the contents of a proposed treatise, and containing nothing but the heads of divisions under which Bellers proposed to write a w^ork on Universal Law. The author spent twenty years in studying his subject and maturing his plan. It is with a feeling of regret, mingled with something like reproach, that we find the labors of twenty years so wasted, and reflect upon the great expenditure of time and dili- gence that has thus been destitute of any useful result. Manning's Com. L. of N. Pref. 11. BELLEWE, RICHARD. Ans du Roy Richard II., hors de las Abridgments de Stalham, Fitzherbert et Brooke. 16mo. London. 1585. This volume of notes of cases is principally valuable from the fact of supplying, in part, a chasm in the Year Books, tern. Richard II. Bel- lewe collected all the cases and scattered notes to be found in print in the old reports and abridgments, which compilation forms a substitute for the Year Book of Richard II. The full reports of this reign are not in print, though Sir Matthew Hale says he had seen " the entire years and terms thereof in manuscript," out of which, or some other copy thereof, I suppose, Fitzherbert abstracted those broken cases of this reign in his abridgment. Hale's Hist. C. L. 175 ; 3 Reeves' Hist. Eng. L. 218 ; 2 Mere. & Steph. on Corp. 773. . Ascnns novel cases de les ans et temps le Roy H. VIII., Edv. VI., and la Roygne Mary. Escrie ex la graund Abridgment, compose per Sir Robert Brooke, Chivaler, &c., la, disperse en les Titles ; mes icy collect sub ans. 12mo. London. 1628. This is a collection of the most remarkable cases in the Common Pleas, from the 6th Hen. VIII., to the 4th Queen Mary. It has often been reprinted, and was translated into English by March. It is some- times cited as Brooke's Cases. BELT, R. Supplement to the reports in Chancery, of F, Vesey, Sen,, during the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. 2d ed. 8vo. London. 1825. 8vo. Philadelphia. 110
