Heath, Robert, Sir, 1575-1649.

Maxims and rules of pleading , in actions real, personal, and mixed, popular, and penal: describing the nature of declarations, pleas, replications, rejoinders, and all other parts of pleading; Shewing Their Validity and Defects, and in what Cases they are amendable by the Court, or remediable by the Statute-Law, or otherwise: Likewise, Which of the Parties in his Plea shall first offer the Issue, and where Special Matter may be given in Evidence upon the General Issue; Of Demurrers upon Evidence; of Verdicts, General and Special, and of Bills of Exceptions to the same; Of Judgments, Executions, Writs of Error and False Judgment; And of Appeals, Indictments, and Informations, and the Pleadings relating thereunto. First published in octavo, in the year 1694, from the manuscript of Sir Robert Heath, Knight, Lord Chief Justice successively of the Courts of Common-Pleas and King's-Bench, in the Reign of King Charles the First. Now re-published in quarto, with notes, observations, and additions of new matter to every Title, from all the late Reports and Abridgments, by T. Cunningham, Esq.