EPITOME OF THE NOTES OF PRACTICE OF THE MAYOR'S COURT OF THE CITY OF LONDON IN ORDINARY ACTIONS. BY WOODTHORPE BRANDON, Esq., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, BIBL PREFACE. THE "Notes of Practice of the Mayor's Court" being now out of print, the Author has been requested to publish a Second Edition; but in consequence of some alteration in the practice and proceedings of the Mayor's Court being contemplated, he believes that it will be the preferable course to publish an Epitome of the Notes in a cheap form, until it is determined whether any alteration will be made as contemplated. February, 1871. TO NOTES OF PRACTICE, PUBLISHED IN 1864. MANY of the provisions of the Common Law Procedure and other Acts having been applied to the Mayor's Court, the Author of the present work believes that a collection of them, with some notices as to their application to the present practice of the Court, may be deemed useful by the profession. The Author has also endeavoured to point out where the peculiar jurisdiction and practice of the Mayor's Court necessarily creates a different method of practice from that of the Courts at Westminster; but, independently of this difference, the various decisions and the books of practice of those courts may generally be relied upon as a guide to the practitioner in the Mayor's Court. The Author is aware that the present work must appear disjointed; but this arises from a desire to point out the difference of the practice of the Mayor's Court from that of other courts, rather than to make a sequential Practice of the Mayor's Court, which would be but borrowing very largely from the books of practice in use in other courts. August, 1864. |