The Pleader s Guide, A Didactic Poem, In Two Parts: Containing Mr. Surrebutter s Poetical Lectures On The Conduct Of A Suit At law, Including The Arguments Of Counsellor Bother um, And Counsellor Bore um, In A Action For Assault And Battery, Betwixt John-

[ANSTEY, John] [d. 1819].

Published by London: Printed For T.Cadell And W.Davies, 1815., 1815

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8vo. pp. xvi, 212. with half-title. Uncut in original bds., rebacked in cloth (hinges strengthened with cloth. The author was a poet, a barrister of Lincoln s Inn, and a commissioner for auditing public accounts. Holdsworth, in his History of the English Law (Vol. XIII, pp. 460ff.) devotes four pages to this work, one of the best and most popular examples of the humorous and satirical literature arising from the law of procedure and pleading. "Porson is said to have know it by heart, and Lord Campbell quotes it in his Lives of the Justices." (DNB) Sweet & Maxwell I 262.5.

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• Title: The Pleader s Guide, A Didactic Poem, In Two Parts: Containing Mr. Surrebutter s Poetical Lectures On The Conduct Of A Suit At law, Including The Arguments Of Counsellor Bother um, And Counsellor Bore um, In A Action For Assault And Battery, Betwixt John-
• Publisher: London: Printed For T.Cadell And W.Davies, 1815.
• Publication Date: 1815
• Binding: Hardcover
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