The Reports Of Sir Peyton Ventris Kt, Late One of the Justices of..

1726. Final Edition of Ventris's Reports Ventris, Sir Peyton [1645-1691]. The Reports of Sir Peyton Ventris Kt. Late One of the Justices of the Common-Pleas. In Two Parts. The First Part Containing Select Cases Adjudged in the King's Bench, In the Reign of K. Charles II. With Three Learned Arguments, One in the King's Bench, By Sir Francis North, When Attorney General; And Two in the Exchequer; by Sir Matthew Hale, When Lord Chief Baron. With Two Tables; One of the Cases, The Other of the Principal Matters. Part II. Containing Choice Cases Adjudged in the Common Pleas, In the Reigns of K. Charles II. And K. James II. And in the Three First Years of the Reign of Their Late Majesties K. William and Q. Mary; While He was a Judge in the Said Court: With the Pleadings to the Same. Also Several Cases and Pleadings Thereupon in the Exchequer-Chamber upon Writs of Error from the Kings-Bench. Together with Many Remarkable and Curious Cases in the Court of Chancery. Whereto are Added Three Exact Tables; One of the Cases, The Other of the Principal Matters, And the Third of the Pleadings. With the Allowance and Approbation of the Lord Keeper and All the Judges. Carefully corrected, With the Addition of Several Thousands of References, Never Before Printed. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq;), 1726. Two volumes bound as one. [xii], 429, [25]; [xviii], 368, [20]. Lacking frontispiece, a copperplate author portrait, as is often the case with this title. Final page is a publisher advertisement. Folio (12-1/4" x 8"). Nineteenth-century calf, raised bands, lettering piece and fragment of library shelf label to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing some minor nicks to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, chip to head of spine by front joint, rear joint starting, hinges cracked. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in a few places, brief annotations in later hand to several leaves, (illegible) later owner signature and small library stamp to title page of Volume I. $350. * Fourth and final edition. An important collection of reports covering cases in King's Bench, 1668-1684, and Common Pleas and Chancery 1669-1691. The annotations, many with secondary references, are mostly glosses or interpretive statements of underlying principles. Others link statements with cross-references. Wal. (Inventory #: 70618)