PRECEDENTS OF PLEADINGS IN ACTIONS IN THE KING'S BENCH DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, WITH NOTES. SEVENTH EDITION. BY W. BLAKE ODGERS, M.A., LL.D., K.C., DIRECTOR OF LEGAL STUDIES AT THE INNS OF COURT, GRESHAM PROFESSOR OF LAW, RECORDER OF BRISTOL, AND JUDGE OF THE TOLZEY COURT, AND WALTER BLAKE ODGERS, M.A., OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, THE MIDDLE TEMPLE AND THE PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. A NEW edition of this standard work has been called for, as the last edition, which appeared in October, 1905, is now out of print. The precedents which appeared in the earlier editions have been carefully revised and occasionally altered to meet modern requirements. More than seventy new precedents have been added. The Editors have been careful to retain, as far as possible, the notes of the edition of 1868, the last one for which the original Authors were responsible; but many additions and omissions were necessary owing to the multiplicity of recent decisions and statutes. The introductory chapters which come in front of the Precedents (Chaps. I., II., III., VI., and VII.) have been rearranged and re-written. Two entirely new chapters have been added, one on Actions for the Recovery of Land (Chap. X) and the other on Applications to Revise or Amend Pleadings (Chap. XII.); and the whole book has been carefully revised and brought up to date. An Appendix has been added setting out verbatim the Rules of the Supreme Court which affect Pleadings. The Editors in presenting these Precedents of Pleadings to the profession venture to remind those who may use them that it is no longer possible for a pleader merely to copy a form applicable to actions of the class to which his case belongs, as was often sufficient under the old system of pleading. Under the present system all material facts have to be stated, instead of, as formerly, the legal result of those facts, and all necessary details must be set out in the body of the pleading. Hence, though the forms in this book will, we trust, afford the pleader material assistance, it will, as a |