The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity, Alphabetically Digested: Containing a Collection of Rules Or Maxims, with the Doctrine Upon Them, Illustrated by Various Cases Extracted from the Books and Records, to Evince that These Principles Have Been the Foundation Upon which the Judges and Sages of the Law Have Built Their Solemn Resolutions and Determinations. The Whole Designed to Reduce the Knowledge of the Laws of England to a More Regular Science, and to Form Them Into a Proper Digest for the Service of the Nobility, Clergy, Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, and Private Gentlemen, as Well as the Professors and Students of the Law. With Three Tables. First, of the Rudiments and Grounds. Second, of the New Cases. Third, of Principal Matters

A Maxim-Based Approach to Legal Study

Reprint of the second and final edition. The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity contains 526 alphabetically arranged maxims, rules, principles and quotations accompanied by comments and illustrations, along with short essays on the law in general, the sources of law, the nature of equity and the pedagogical value of maxims.

First published in 1749, and intended for laymen and law students, it continued the pedagogical tradition of such books as Bacon's Collection of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England and The Use of the Law (1630), Noy's Treatise of the Principall Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes of this Kingdome (1641) and Wingate's Maximes of Reason: Or, The Reason of the Common Law of England (1658). It served as a model for Broome's Legal Maxims, a work that reached a ninth edition in 1924.

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