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 Die &c. ; to which is added an Appendix, containing many of the legal Forms necessary to be used in the general Transactions of Business, &c. 12mo. Towanda. 1845. This little volume will be found an excellent guide to those for whom it is designed. The statutes relating to the subjects are carefully col- lected as well as the decisions, and it is furnished with an excellent Index, which renders it an easy book of consultation. The forms, in- stead of all being thrown together at the end of the work, are appro- priately placed after the subjects to which they relate, and in the Appendix will be found a concise and accurate glossary of Law Terms. DIALOGUE. The Proctor and Parator ; their mourning ; or, the Lamentation of the Doctors' Commons for their Downfall ; being a true Dialogue, relating to the fearful Abuses and Exorbitancies of those Spiritual Courts ; under the names of Sponge, the Proctor, and Hunter, the Parator. 4to. London. 1641. between a County Farmer and a Juryman, on the subject of Libels. 8vo. London. 1770. Ancient Dialogues concerning the Exchequer, &c. Now carefully translated into English by a Gentleman of the Inner Temple. 4to. London. 1758. This dialogue was first printed in Latin at the end of Madox's Exche- quer, and the author of it is supposed to be Richard de Beainnes, Bishop of London, tem. Hen. I. It has also been attributed to Gervasius Til- buriensis, under which name Selden quotes it in his Titles of Honour. Spelman, Cowel, and Coke, refer its composition to Ockham, and cite it under this title. Dialogus de Scaccario, is very much relied on as an authority, and ]Mr. Barrington remarks " that it hath uncommon merit as a literary production of this reign." Bar. Obs. IM. C. c. 4 ; Pref. Mad. Exch. ; Co. Lit. Harg. n. ; Brooke's Bib. Leg. 25; Crabb's Eng. L. 71 ; 1 Reeves' Hist. 220. DICKINS, JOHN. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, from 1559 to 1784; revised by John Wyatt. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1803. The author of these Reports was, for many years, Register of the Court of Chancery, and during this time collected the above Reports, which were edited and published by Mr. Wyatt, after the reporter's death. Lord Redesdale says, "Mr. Dickins was a very attentive and diligent Register, but his notes being rather loose, are not considered as of very high authority ; he was constantly applied to, to know if he had any thing on such and such subjects in his notes ; but if he had, the 265