A treatise on the abuses of the laws, particularly in actions by arrest : pointing out numerous hardships and abuses, in the different courts, from the commencement of an action to its conclusion, and the various extortions, from the the high sheriff to the bailiff's follower : together with the system of the King's Bench prison and the spunging houses in London, Middlesex, and neighbouring counties : showing also the enormous expence parties are put to on small debts, the cruel practice of bringing numerous actions, only to increase the costs, and the necessity for establishing a court in which the tradesman can recover his small debt : the whole tending to show that the arrest on common or mesne process, as now carried on, is equally oppressive to the plaintiff and defendant
Pearce, James, solicitor