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BRI BRIDGEN, T. A. The Office of Surrogate, and Executor's and Administrator's Guide, with Precedents and Forms. 8vo. Albany. 1825.

BRIDGES, JOHN. The Supremacie of Christian Princes, over all persons throughout their dominions, in all causes Ecclesiastical and Temporal. 4to. London. 1573.

BRIDGMAN, R. O. A Practical Digest of Reported Cases on Points of Practice and Pleading, in the Court of Equity in Eng- land and Ireland, from the earliest period to 1824, 8vo. London. 1824. New York. 1829.

BRIDGMAN, SIR ORLANDO. Judgment of the Common Pleas, in Benyon v. Eveln, T. T. 14 Cha. II. Including a considera- tion, how far the Courts of Westminster Hall may adjudicate on privilege of Parliament without being concluded by the rates of either House, extracted from Lord Chief Justice Bridgman's own report. By F. Hargrave. 8vo. London. 1811.

Reports of Judgments by Sir Orlando Bridgman, when Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, from M. T. 1660, to T. T. 1667. Edited from the Hargrave MSS. By S. Bannister. 8vo. London. 1823.

Sir 0. Eridgman, at his death, left nine volumes of manuscript Re- ports, four of which contained notes of cases and his judgments in the Court of Common Pleas. From these four volumes Mr. Bannister selected and published the above mentioned volume. Mr. Hargrave, who intended publishing the Common Pleas Reports, supposed that they were prepared for the press by the author, who was one of the most eminent jurists of his age, and whose opinions and writings have always commanded the highest respect.

"In the arguments of Chief Justice Bridgman, methinks I find that evisceratio causae, as the Roman orator calls it, an exact anatomy of the case, and a dextrous piercing into the very bowels of it ; and it was no small commendation of an eminent professor of our law, and one that afterwards was advanced to the highest office a person of that profession can be capable : That he always argued like a lawyer and a gentleman." Preface to Carter's Reports ; 14 East, 134; 2 Fonb. Eq. 172, n.

. Conveyances, being Precedents of Deeds and Instruments, concerning the most considerable Estates in Eng- land. 5th ed. folio. 1725.

"His draughts are still admired and resorted to by all who deem a 146