Textbooks cited in the Kercher Reports, Dowling’s Select Cases and Legge’s Reports
1788-1862
Most cited textbooks
Text
No of cases
BLACKSTONE’S Commentaries
33
COKE’S Institutes
-- COKE on Littleton (First Institute): 17
-- COKE’S Institutes: 12
29
BACON’S Abridgment
27
COMYNS’ Digest
24
HAWKINS, Pleas of the Crown
11
CHALMERS’ Opinions of eminent lawyers
9
SMITH’S Leading Cases
9
VINER’S Abridgment
9
CHITTY, Prerogative
7
HALE, Pleas of the Crown
7
SUGDEN, Vendor & Purchaser
7
STEPHEN’S Commentaries
6
BULLER’S Trials at Nisi Prius
5
CHITTY on Bills of Exchange
5
HOWARD’S Colonial law
5
KENT’S Commentaries
5
SELWYN’S Nisi Prius
5
SHEPPARD’S Touchstone
5
STOKES, A view of the constitution of the British Colonies in North America
and the West Indies …
5
STARKIE on Evidence
5
BURN’S Justice
5
ABBOTT on Shipping
4
BROOM’S Maxims
4
CHITTY, Commercial law
4
GILBERT, Law of evidence
4
LITTLETON on Tenures
4
PHILLIPPS on Evidence
4
STEPHEN on Pleading
4
STORY’S Equity Jurisprudence
4
ARCHBOLD’S Criminal Pleading & Evidence
3
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BURTON’S Compendium
3
CLARK’S Colonial Law
3
CRUISE’S Digest
3
DWARRIS on Statutes
3
EAST, Pleas of the Crown
3
JARMAN & BYTHEWOOD, Conveyancing
3
LEWIN on Trusts
3
MADDOCK’S Chancery Practice
3
POWNALL, Administration of the colonies
3
RUSSELL on Crimes
3
TIDD, Practice of the King’s Bench and Common Pleas
3
VATTEL, Law of Nations
3
WATSON’S Sheriff
3
CHITTY’S Criminal Law
3
BURGE’S Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws
2
CHITTY on Contracts
2
CHITTY on Pleading
2
DICKINSON’S Guide to the Quarter Sessions
2
HAYES on Conveyancing
2
HOLT on Libel
2
HULLOCK, Costs
2
JACOB’S Law Dictionary
2
JARMAN on Wills
2
JEREMY, Equity Jurisprudence
2
PAYLEY on Convictions
2
PEAKE, Evidence
2
PLOWDEN
2
POTHIER on Contracts
2
ROLLE’S Abridgment
2
STORY on Agency
2
STARKIE on Libel
2
PUFENDORF, Law of Nature and Nations
2
ADAMS on Ejectment
1
ALISON’S Criminal Law
1
ARCHBOLD, Practice of the Court of Queen’s Bench
1
ARCHIBALD’S Practice
1
BACON on the Statute of Uses
1
BACON, De Augmentis Scientiarum
1
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BACON, Proposition … compiling and amendment of the laws of England
1
BAILEY’S Dictionary
1
BAYLEY, Bills of Exchange
1
BEST on Presumptions
1
BIGGE, Report on the judicial establishments of New South Wales
1
BRACTON
1
BRADBY on Distresses
1
BROOKE’S Abridgment
1
BROOKE’S Notary
1
BROOM’S Commentaries on the Common Law
1
BURN’S Ecclesiastical Law
1
CARRINGTON, Criminal Law
1
CHAMBER’S Law of Elections
1
CHANCEY’S Law of Husband and Wife
1
CICERO, De Officiis
1
COLLYER on Partnership
1
DEACON’S Digest
1
DIGEST
1
DUNCOMBE, Trials per Pais
1
DWARRIS & AMYOT on Statutes
1
DWARRIS, First report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the
administration of civil and criminal justice in the West Indies
1
DWARRIS, Third report
1
ERSKINE’S Institutes (of the Laws of Scotland), ed by Ivory
1
FITZHERBERT’S Natura Brevium
1
FLETA
1
FORBES, Bills of Exchange
1
FOSTER, Discourses
1
FRY on Specific Performance
1
GALE & WHATELY on Easements
1
GILBERT, Exchequer
1
GILBERT, Rents
1
GILBERT, Uses and Trusts, with notes by Sugden
1
GRADY & SCOTLAND’S Practice
1
GRANT’S Chancery Practice
1
GREENLEAF on Evidence
1
GROTIUS
1
HALE, History of the Common Law
1
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HARRISON’S Annual Digest, Cases Over-ruled and Doubted
1
HAWKIN’S Practice – check
1
HOFFMAN’S Law of the Church
1
HORACE, Epistles
1
HULTON, Convictions
1
JARMAN’S Conveyancing
1
JOHNSON’S Dictionary
1
JURIST’S Digest
1
JUSTINIAN, Institutes
1
LEWIS on Dependencies
1
LYBREGHTS, Office of a notary
1
MOLLOY, De jure maritime et navali …
1
MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws
1
NEW YORK ANALYTICAL DIGEST
1
NICHOL’S Justice
1
PALGRAVE’S Anglo Saxons
1
PAYLEY on Principal and Agent
1
POWELL on Devises
1
POYNTER, Ecclesiastical Courts in Doctors’ Commons
1
Practical register in chancery
1
RAM on Assets
1
RAM on Judgments
1
REEVES, English law of shipping
1
REEVES, History of English Law
1
REEVES, History of Newfoundland
1
ROBERTS on Fraud
1
ROBERTS, Construction of the Statutes 13 Eliz c 5 and 27 Eliz c4 relating to
Voluntary and Fraudulent Conveyances
1
ROPER, Husband & Wife
1
ROSCOE’S Evidence
1
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SANDERS on Uses, 5 ed
1
SAUNDERS on Pleading and Evidence, ed by Lush
1
SEWELL on Sheriff
1
SMITH, Mercantile Law
1
SMITH’S Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
1
SMITH’S Principles of Equity
1
SPENCE’S Equity
1
STAMFORD’S Prerogative
1
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STAUNFORD, Prerogative
1
STAUNTON’S Prerogative
1
STEPHEN’S Laws of the Clergy
1
STEPHEN’S Practice
1
STEPHEN’S Supplement to Supreme Court Practice
1
STORY on Partnership
1
STORY, Conflict of Laws
1
STORY, Constitution
1
STORY’S Equity Pleading
1
SWINBURNE on Wills
1
TAYLOR on Evidence
1
TAYLOR, Elements of Roman Law
1
TURNER’S Anglo Saxons
1
TYTLER, Military Law
1
VOET, Commentarius ad Pandectas, Titulus IV, De Fide Instrumentorum…
1
WATKIN’S Treatment of Descents, ed Williams
1
WHITE & TUDOR’S Leading Cases in Equity
1
WILKIN’S Concilia
1
WILLIAMS, Principles of the Law of Real Property
1
WOODFALL, Landlord & Tenant, ed Harrison
1
WRIGHT’S Tenures
1
Queries
ARCH… – check author / title – likely to be Archbold, but many possible titles
1
CHITTY – check which title
1
DWARRIS – check title – possibly should be Dalton?
1
JARMAN – check title – several possibilities
1
STAUN… Prerogative – STAUNTON / STAUNFORD?
1
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