Bli. - Bligh's House of Lords Reports (United Kingdom)
Forming part of the English Reports, Volume 4 (1819-1821).
Followed by Bli. N. S. (Bligh's House of Lords Reports, New Series, 1827 to 1837).
Holdsworth wrote of Richard Bligh (1780-1838?):
"The only reporter of whom I need here say anything is Bligh. Bligh (1780-1838) was the son of Captain, afterwards Admiral, William Bligh of the Bounty (1754-1817). He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the bar by the Inner Temple, and practised at the Chancery Bar. He tells us that he had spent twelve years taking notes of House of Lords decisions before he published his first series of House of Lords reports. But though these reports won praise they hardly paid the expense of publication. This was the reason for the delay in the publication of the second series. The second series was written on the same plan as the first, except that the appeals from the Scottish courts were relegated to the appendix. Besides reporting cases in the House of Lords, Bligh collaborated with Basil Montague in a set of reports of bankruptcy cases; he wrote a digest of bankruptcy law; and a book on the report of the Poor Law Commission and Poor Law Bill of 1834."
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