THIS Tenth Volume comprehends and clofes the different Heads of pleading and practice of which I originally ventured to give the outline, and it feems neceffary to open a more explicit view of the contents of the whole by way of general Direction, to make them plain and ufeful to the Practitioner. It will be fufficient to apprize the Student that I have entirely thrown out the old antiquated Heads farther than they are now in practical ufe, as ANNUITY, Proceedings in AUDITA QUERELA, and others (for it might seem by the Preface to my first Volume I meant to include the former Head, with other old Proceedings, which I fince thought better not to do, to the exclufion of more useful matter); and that there is a flight difarrangement in this Volume, namely, in ERROR, which ought ftrictly to follow every other head. My reafon for it is, that I had completed it after the perfonal Actions, before mixed and real actions; and it was convenient to me, to prevent ftopping the prefs. Having then in the preceding nine Volumes difpofed of perfonal Actions, and in this Volume Proceedings in ERROR; the MIXED Actions are EJECTMENT and QUARE IMPEDIT: in the former I give but few Forms, becaufe of Mr. Serjeant Runnington's very excellent book on that head, containing moft correct and valuable a 2 valuable Precedents; in the latter they are fufficiently varied for all the common cafes that happen, with a most ample INDEX, after great labour and difficulty in the execution of it. Then follow REAL Actions, the INDEX, fuch of my own Precedents, and the dif tribution of them in their order, will be found under the Head ACTIONS REAL in the GENERAL INDEX. The modern References follow their different Heads, and the more ancient would have swelled my Work to a greater extent than I at first proposed to myself; or The The PRACTICAL FORMS, or PARTES PLACITANDI of his Book immediately fuggests the order in which the Forms and Parts of the Record ftand, and may be easily given; but I was afraid to interfere with his work in a Plagarifm fo palpable, especially much in- debted as I am for his free communications; and also Plan, which I can venture with confidence to affure own. Under the Head of PRACTICAL FORMS will be and learned Profeffion. In the Reference to the modern Books of Practice |