64:: "Barnardiston, Mr. Preston! I fear that is a book of no great authority; I recollect, in my younger days, it was said of Barnardiston, that he was accustomed to slumber over his note book, and the wags in the rear took the opportunity of scribbling nonsense in it." Mr. Preston; "There are some cases in Barnardiston, which, in my experience, and having had frequent occasion to compare that reporter's cases with the same cases elsewhere, I have found to be the only sensible and intelligent reports, and I trust I shall show your lordship that it may be said of Barnadiston,
84:, and if the author has occasionally fallen into slight errors, they are neither so glaring or numerous as to detract much from their merits, or render them unworthy of a place in every lawyer's library. 2 Bur. 1142; 13 A. J. 483; 2 B. & B 386; 1 Bligh. N. S. 538; 1 East, 642; 8 D. & E. 48; 2 Bro. C. C. 36; 4 Ves. jun., 488, n.; 4 D. & E. 57; 1 Dow. & Cl. 11; Gres. Eq. Evid. 301, n.
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Barnardiston, for the most part, has correctly reported the decisions of the Court. His reports have a peculiar value, from the fact of containing
58:, in an argument before the Lord Chancellor remarked-"We come now, my lord, to the important case of Eliot v. Merryman, on which conveyancers have at all times relied as very material to the law affecting the case now before the court, which is in Barnardiston's Reports."
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72:, relying on a case in these reports, says: "Although Barnardiston is not considered a very correct reporter, yet some of his cases are very accurately reported." And
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