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出版Lawbook Exchange, Limited, 2005
主題Law / GeneralPolitical Science / Law Enforcement
ISBN15847752389781584775232
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZWFGPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Law: With Considerable Additions, by Henry Gwyllim. With the Addition of the Later English, and the American Decisions. Philadelphia: Farrand and Nicholas, 1811. Seven volumes. Reprint available April, 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-523-8. Cloth. $995. * First American edition, from the sixth London edition. Bacon's Abridgment is a digest of cases as well as a compilation of treatises written by Sir Jeffrey Gilbert and gathered by Bacon [fl. 1730] for the first edition published in London in 1736. However, Bacon lived long enough only to carry the work up to "Sheriff;" the remainder was added by the original English editors Joseph Sayer [fl. 1750] and Owen Ruffhead [1723-1769]. In frequent use by practitioners of the era, its importance is attested to by the many editions the work enjoyed. Its comprehensiveness and, still more, the logical system of subdivisions employed within each title, placed it far above all previous compendia of its kind, and made it, according to Marvin's Legal Bibliography (1847), "...quite a law library in itself" (85). This edition contains additions and notes by Bird Wilson [1777-1859], Pennsylvania jurist and son of James Wilson.