CHI CHIPMAN, DANIEL. Life of Nathaniel Chipman, with Selec- tions from his Miscellaneous Papers. 8vo. Boston. 1846. CHITTY, JOSEPH. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nations, relative to the legal effect of war on the Commerce of Bellio^erents and Neutrals, and on Orders in Council and Licenses. Svo. Lon- don. 1812. Svo. Boston. 1812. • This is a superficial and imperfect Treatise, and does not deserve the title which it bears. Its chief merit is in the arrangement of Sir Wil- liam Scott's judgments in prize causes, under appropriate titles. 7 N. A. R. 346 ; Reddie's Intro, to L. of N. 102. . A General Practice of the Law in all its Depart- ments, with a view of Rights, Injuries, and Remedies, as amelio- rated by recent Statutes, Rules, and Decisions, and the Practice in Arbitrations, before Justices in Courts of Common Law, Equity, Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, Admiralty, Prize, Court of Bankruptcy, and Courts of Error and Appeal ; with new practi- cal Forms. 3d ed. 3 vols. Svo. London. 1837-1842. 4 vols. Svo. Philadelphia. 1836-40. This immense work, as the author informs us, incorporates the result of forty years severe study and experience. " It contains a comprehen- sive and detailed account of the law, in all its departments; but from its bulk and miscellaneous and practical character, it is perhaps better calculated for young attorneys and solicitors, than for pleaders and bar- risters." It is a sort of an Encyclopaedia of the law, and will supply the place of several separate works. Vol. Ill, of the 3d ed. was edited by R. Lush. The American is a reprint of the first English edition. 12 A. J. 547; 10 L. O. 4 ; (11) 75; Warren's Law Studies, 778. . A Practical Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions ; with second and third volumes, containing Modern Precedents of Pleading and practical Notes. The seventh edi- tion, corrected and enlarged by Henry Greening. 2 vols. Svo. London. 1844. 8th American ed. Svo. Springfield. 1844. Chitty's Pleading is a work so well known and appreciated in Eng- land and America, that little need be said of it here. Like several other of this author's productions, it is doubtless in more general use in the United States than in England, As a practical treatise it surpasses all others upon the law of Pleading, in the variety and extent of its learning, and the copiousness of its forms, " but it is deficient in the exposition of principles, and wholly so in the philosophy of the practice of Pleading." " No practical lawyer can dispense with this book. The student should 190
