GIL the latest edition is usually the best. But Gilbert's History and Practice of the Court of Common Pleas, is a book of a very different stamp; and though (like the rest of his posthumous works,) it has suffered most grossly by ignorant or careless transcribers, yet it has traced out the reasons of many parts of our modern practice, from the feudal insti- tutions, and the primitive construction of our Courts, in a most clear, and ingenious manner." 3 Blk. Com. 272, n ; 10 Howel's Sta. Tr. 192. GILBERT, SIR JEFFREY. The Law and Practice of Eject- ments ; to which are added, select Precedents of Pleas, Special Verdicts, Judgments, Executions, and Proceedings in Error. 2d ed., with Additions, by Charles Runnington. 8vo. London. 1781. . The Law of Evidence. 5th ed. ; to which is pre- fixed some account of the author ; his Abstract of Locke's Essay, and Ills Argument in a Case of Homicide, in Ireland. 4 vols. Svo. London. 1791-96. 6th ed., by J. Sedgwick. Svo. London. 1801 ; which was re-printed, Svo. Philadelphia. 1805. This volume, for many years, was a standard practical book, though now quite obsolete. Compared with modern works upon Evidence, it is a very meagre production; yet when Blackstone wrote his Commenta- ries, he apologises for not treating the subject of Evidence more at length, " because of the fulness and excellence of Chief Baron Gilbert's Treatise, a work which it is impossible to abstract or abridge, without losing some beauty and destroying the chain of the whole." 3 Blk. Com. 3G7; 1 Kent, 511. . The History and Practice of the Exchequer. 8vo. Jjondon. 1758. — . Forum Romanum ; or, the Roman Tribunal ; and Lex Pretoria; or, the Pretorian Law; two Treatises on the Proceedings in Equity, and the Jurisdiction of that Court. 2 vols, in 1. Svo. Dublin. 1756. London. 1758. The English editor professes to have printed the work from a cor- rect MS. copy, and to have freed his, from the errors of the Irish edition. Whatever the emendations may be, it is the most incorrect of all the author's posthumous publications, and gives but an imperfect view of the origin of Chancery jurisdiction, and the Practice, as established when the work was written. The volume is sometimes cited as Gil. For. Rom. 3 Wood. Lee. 215, n; 15 A. J. 351 ; 21 L. M. 237. . A Treatise on Rents. Svo. London. 1758. See Law Library. 334
