chiefly relate to demurrers, and proceedings in error; and contain provisions respecting the admission of written documents. The judicial decisions of the courts, referred to in the following work, are for the most part founded on the statutes and rules of court before noticed. But besides these decisions, the Author has, in order to render his work more extensively useful, collected and arranged the decisions on other matters of frequent occurrence in practice; such as an attorney's right to recover, when part of his bill is taxable, and part not; staying proceedings, until security be given for the payment of costs; warrants of attorney, and entering up judgment thereon; the hearing of counsel at the trial; the assessment of damages; and the judge's certificate, to deprive a party of costs to which he would otherwise be entitled, or to entitle him to costs of which he would otherwise be deprived. Particular attention has also been paid to the following important practical subjects; viz. process; appearance; special bail; declaration ; motions and rules, and the practice by summons and order at a judge's chambers; proceedings on the interpleader act; pleas, and pleadings; trials before the sheriff, &c.; the examination of witnesses on interrogatories ; trials at nisi prius, and their incidents; costs, interlocutory and final; speedy judgment and execution; and writs of error, and the proceedings thereon. The recent alterations in the practice of the courts are arranged in the order of the ninth Edition of the Practice, which is frequently referred to. And for better understanding the nature of these alterations, an introductory statement is prefixed to each statute, and rule of court, shewing the practice as it formerly stood, and in what manner it has been since altered. An Appendix is added, of Practical Forms in the Statutory rules of pleading, and Schedule annexed thereto, and referred to at the end of the rules of Practice: And references are made throughout to the Forms of Practical Proceedings published by the Author in 1828, as well as those in the Appendices to his Supplements, which contain all the Forms in the Schedules to the different statutes, and prescribed by the rules of court: And, in the Appendix to the Supplement of 1833, there are nearly two hundred Practical Forms, consisting chiefly of writs and returns, entries of process, &c. affidavits, rules of court, judge's orders, notices, &c. To facilitate research, copious Tables are prefixed to the work, of the statutes, rules of court, and names of the cases; and all the different books are referred to, in which the cases are reported. To the whole there is intended to be a copious Analytical Index, which is in a state of great forwardness, and will be delivered by the publishers, to the purchasers of the present work, in the course of next Trinity vacation. There will also be published with the Index, an Addenda of Cases, reported since the work went to press, and which could not be inserted in the body of it. The Author cannot conclude, without expressing his acknowledgments to Mr. William Henry Medlicott, of the Inner Temple, for the assiduity and zeal with which he has assisted him in preparing the present work for publication, as well as the ninth Edition of the Practice, and the Supplements thereto. TEMPLE, 6th May, 1837. CONTENTS. Page Of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, and their Summary Jurisdiction, and Power of making Ge- Of the Means of commencing Personal Actions, in the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, &c.; and the Process in general for bringing the Defendant into Court; and of the Of the Teste and Return of Process; Memoranda, and Indorse- Of the Bail Bond; and Deposit of Money in Sheriff's hands, Of Appearance to the Writs of Summons, and Distringas; and Of the Privileges of Attornies, and Mode of proceeding in |