John Anstey
Published: 2009-08
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PLEADER'S GUIDE, A DIDACTIC POEM, IN TWO BOOKS, CONTAINING THE CONDUCT OF A SUIT AT LAW, With the Arguments of COUNSELLOR BOTHER'UM, COUNSELLOR BORE'UM, IN AN ACTIPN BETWIXT JOHN-a-GULL, and JOHN-a-GUDGEON, For ASSAULT And BATTERY, at a late Contested Election. BOOK II. LONDON: Printed Foe T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, (successors To Mr. Cadell) In The Strand, By W. Flint, Old Bailey. 1802. chapter{Section 4TO THE READER AFTER so long an interval between the publication of the first Part of the late tyTr. S-rr-b-tt-r's Professional Lectures, and the appearance of the second Course, many of his Readers might reasonably expect that the Editor should, at least, have had the grace to make some sort of excuse for having so long neglected to fulfil his engagements to the Public: while others, perhaps, will not scruple to think it would be far more becoming in Him to make a suitable apology for publishing this Poem at all; and in truth, the Editor is very much inclined to be of the latter opinion himself.? As however, this second Part is now published separately, after an interval of delay, by. means ill adapted to the true genius and character of the subject, it may not be deemed impertinent to remind the Reader that Mr. S. in the outline of his plan, professed to demonstrate the decided superiority of the Common Law over the Civil, with respect to some peculiar advantages, heretofore not fully considered; and from thence to proceed to the History of a Suit at Common Law, commencing with the Original Writ, and conducting his Pupil regularly through the whole of the subsequent Process in all its splendid varieties and modifications; and finishing the first Book of his Lectures with the Parties' final appearance in Court, ...
