present size, so numerous have been the decisions, and so various the new principles established in the law of bankruptcy, since the work of Mr. Cooke was published. ་་ The last number of Messrs. Glyn and Jameson's Reports in Bankruptcy having been published after this work had gone completely through the press, the Author has cancelled several pages, in order to notice in the proper place those judg ments which have been reversed upon appeal by the late Lord Chancellor. The other cases are given by way of Addenda, and will be found, also, in the general table of the names of cases cited. With regard to the forms and precedents in bankruptcy, the Author has in this respect adopted the plan of Mr. Cooke, by allotting to them a separate volume; an arrangement which he trusts will be more acceptable, than crowding them as an appendix into the same volume with the text; for one branch of the profession has seldom occasion to refer to them, whilst in the office of the solicitor they are the subjects of frequent re ference. The greatest care has been taken to render them correct, and conformable to the provisions of the new statute; and in order to make them more practically useful, they have been principally arranged as forming part of the business of the particular meeting, to which they more immediately belong. Explanatory notes have been also added to assist the practitioner, as well as notes of reference to that portion of the text in the first volume, which bears upon the subject connected with the precedent. -- In the anxiety (which the Author cannot help feeling) of thus appearing before the Public, he will not attempt to crave the indulgence of his readers for any imperfections in the following pages, by the pretence so often urged, "of having been distracted from his undertaking by the labours of an arduous profession;" being fully impressed with the truth of Dr. Johnson's observation, that no book was ever spared out of tenderness to its author; and least of all can such unreasonable mercy be expected to a defective work of science, or jurisprudence, from a class of men not over celebrated for their blindness to error, or their forbearance to pretension. Whether the writer of this treatise has duly discharged the debt, which, Lord Bacon says, every man owes to his Profession, the Profession must alone determine But whatever the result may be whether of censure or of praise it will be some satisfaction to his own mind, to be conscious that he has spared no toil, or effort, to merit its approbation,----and that by industry, at least, he has endeavoured to do well. Southampton Buildings, TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE LORD CHANcellor. 1. Over the parties to the commission........ 2. Over strangers to the commission.......................... 1. What persons are liable to bankruptcy........................ 2. What is a sufficient trading........................ 3. What is not a sufficient trading......................................... 4. Of the place where the trade must be carried on.......... 1. Of the general nature and effect of an act of bankruptcy 40 2. Of the several acts of bankruptcy specified in the statute 43 87 OF THE PETITIONING CREDITOR · continued. 2. Of the time of the contracting and accruing of the debt 94 3. General duties and liabilities of the petitioning creditor 100 2. Of the general effect of the commission........................ 123 3. Of their power over the bankrupt's property............... 152 4. Of their power over other persons.................................... |