A Digest of the Laws of England. The fifth Edition, corrected, (with considerable additions to the text) and continued from the original Edition to the present Time; to which is added a Digest of the Cases at Nisi Prius, by Anthony HAMMOND.

COMYNS, Sir John, Knight, Late Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty`s Court of Exchequer,

Edité par London, Printed by A. Strahan, Law-Printer to the King`s most excellent Majesty, for Joseph Butterworth and Son., 1822

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Chancery Appendix. Vol. I. (.VIII.) Oktav. (I: 1822) XXXI, 788 S.; (II:) 826 S.; (III:) 638 S.; (IV:) 876 S.; (V:) 640 S.(VI:) Ttlbl., (18), 574 S.; (VII:) 813 S.; (VIII: ohne Titelblatt) 1.041 S. 8 spätere Halbleinenbände mit Buntpapierüberzug auf den Buchdeckeln. wo ist Band VIII, das kein Titelblat hat Vol. I.: Abatement - Award Vol. II.: Bail - Charter Vol. III: Charters - Essoine. Vol. IV: Estates - Liberties Vol. V: Liberties - Plea, and Digest of Nisi Prius Cases Vol. VI: Pleader - Plurality Voil. VII: Poiar - Year and the Addenda. Vol. VIII: Apendix: Account - York. Sir John Comyns SL (c. 1667 1 November 1740), of Writtle in Essex, was an English judge and Member of Parliament.[1] He was born the eldest surviving son of William Comyns, barrister, of Lincoln's Inn and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and coheiress of Matthew Rudd of Little Baddow, Essex. He was educated at Felsted School and Queens' College, Cambridge.[2] Comyns was a member of Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1690. He entered Parliament in 1701 as member for Maldon, and represented that borough for 17 of the next 26 years (1701 08, 1710 15 and 1722 26). On the three separate occasions on which he was returned for Maldon his opponents petitioned against his election, alleging bribery or improper conduct by the bailiff (who was the returning officer for the borough); but their only success was in 1715 when they also accused him of having refused to take the Qualification Oath, and his election in that case was declared void on those grounds. He was made serjeant-at-law in 1705, and was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer and knighted in 1726, a Justice of Common Pleas in 1736 and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1738. Comyns is the author of 'Reports of Cases adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer.' This work was written in law French. The 'Reports' were translated by the judge's nephew J. Comyns of the Inner Temple, and published in one volume in 1744, with the sanction and approbation of the judges. They were re-edited in 1792 by Samuel Rose. He is also the author of 'A Digest of the Laws of England' This work was also written in law French but afterwards translated.[3] Around 1726, Sir John Comyns purchased the manor of Shaxstones in Writtle, and commissioned the construction of a new family home on the estate, suitable for a man of his standing. Completed in 1730, Hylands House was an elegant two-storey red brick building in Queen Anne style architecture. The grounds were set out in the formal geometric style fashionable at the time, with a pleasure garden and small kitchen garden to the north of the house. It is now a Grade II* listed building.[4] He married three times; firstly Anne, daughter and coheiress of Dr Nathaniel Gurdon, rector of Chelmsford, secondly Elizabeth Courthorpe of Kent and thirdly Anne Wilbraham. He left no children. Hylands passed to a nephew, also John Comyns, after the death of his widow.

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• Titre: A Digest of the Laws of England. The fifth Edition, corrected, (with considerable additions to the text) and continued from the original Edition to the present Time; to which is added a Digest of the Cases at Nisi Prius, by Anthony HAMMOND.
• Éditeur: London, Printed by A. Strahan, Law-Printer to the King`s most excellent Majesty, for Joseph Butterworth and Son.
• Date de parution: 1822
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