Edward Chitty

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Edward Chitty (1804–1863) was an English legal reporter.

Life

The third son of Joseph Chitty the elder, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1829, and practised as an equity draughtsman. In 1840 he went to Jamaica, and was there for many years. He returned to England, and died at Walham Green on 28 September 1863.^[1]

Works

He published a series of reports of cases in bankruptcy with Edward Deacon, beginning in 1833, and with Basil Montagu in 1839. Besides his share in Deacon & Chitty he was the author of:

Chitty's Equity Index (1831), which reached a third edition in 1853, and a fourth in 1883;
an Index to Common Law Reports (with Francis Forster) in 1841; and
the Commercial and General Lawyer (2nd edit. 1839).

He also published the Fly-Fisher's Text Book (1841) under the pseudonym of Theophilus South.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Hamilton 1887.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hamilton, John Andrew (1887). "Chitty, Edward". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 266.

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