A concise, practical abridgment of the common and statute law as at present administered in the common law, probate, divorce, and admiralty courts : excluding all that is obsolete, overruled, or superseded : comprising a series of condensed treatises on the different branches of the law, with detailed directions, forms, and precedents : an alphabetical dictionary of technical law terms and maxims, and a collection of words that have received a special judicial construction : the whole illustrated by references to the principal cases in equity, and in the Scotch, American, and Irish reports, and the most eminent text writers / by Charles Petersdorff, serjeant-at-law ; assisted by Charles W. Wood, Esq. and Walker Marshall, Esq., barristers-at-law.