BUR BURN, J. I. Attorney's Practice in the Court of King's Bench. 8vo. London. 1805. . A Treatise, or Summary of the Law relating to Stock Jobbing. 8vo. London. 1803. . A Practical Treatise, or Compendium of the Law of Marine Lisurances. 12mo. London. 1801. Svo. New York. 1801. BURN, RICHARD. A New Law Dictionary, intended for general use as well as for gentlemen of the Profession ; continued to the present time by his son, John Burn. 2 vols. Svo. London. 1792. This was a posthumous publication, and it does not appear whether, or not, the author ever intended it for the press. It was probably de- signed as a sort of Appendix to Burn's other works, calculated to explain concisely such professional terms as occurred in them. The Titles are brief, and for the most part unsatisfactory. — . Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1755. 29lh ed. corrected and greatly enlarged, with many New Titles, the Statutes and Cases to M. T. 1844, &c. By M. B. Bere and T. Chitly. 8 vols. 8vo. London. 1844. From two thin Svo.'s, this work has increased, under the hands of various editors to " six huge closely printed volumes, each containing about 1200 pages." The popularity and value of this Treatise have been long and well known, and in England it is regarded as the most useful book ever published on the law relating to Justices of the Peace. The forms in some of the earlier editions, were of questionable authority, wiiich later editors have corrected, till nothing more can be desired in this particular. It was abridged and adapted to the laws of Massachu- setts, when a Colony, by J, Greenleaf. 4to., Boston, 1773. 1 Blks. Com. 354; 6 Wentworth's PI., Pref. 8; Warren's Law Studies, 621, . Ecclesiastical Law. 4to. London. 1760. 7th ed. 4 vols. 8vo. with Notes by S. Fraser. 9th ed. 4 vols. 8vo. London. 1842. Corrected with very considerable Addi- tions, including the Statutes and Cases to the present time. Bv R. Phillimore. It has always been deemed a book of authority ; and Blackstone, in his Commentaries, mentions it as one of the very few publications on the subject of Ecclesiastical Law on which the reader can rely with cer- tainty. Burn, by his diligent and accurate research, and by great judg- ment in the selection and use of his materials, laid the foundation of a work which subsequent editors have reared to a complete and full Trea- 163
