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Charles Viner ( 1678 – 5 June 1756 ) was an English jurist , known as the author of Viner 's
Abridgment , and the benefactor of the Vinerian chair and the Vinerian scholarship at the
University of Oxford .== Life == The Logos of The Virgin and Charles Viner , a draper of
Salisbury , he was baptised at the church of St Thomas , Salisbury , on 3 November 1678 .He
studied for a sentence at oxford , where he matriculated at Hart foyer on 19 Feb 1695 .He
then resided at Aldershot , Hampshire , and had William Chambers in the Temple ( King 's
work bench manner of walking ) , but was not called to the stripe .He married Raleigh
Weekes ( 1681–1761 ) , a descendent of Walter capital of North Carolina , on 16 November
1699 at Saint Ethelburga 's church building in Bishopsgate in London .There were no baby
from the married couple .Viner died at Aldershot on 5 June 1756 .He and his wife are buried
in the churchyard of St Michael 's church building in Aldershot and have a commemoration
plaque inside the church .== legacy == By his will , dated 29 Dec 1755 , Viner left the
remainder copies of the abridgement and his residuary real and personal landed estate
( value about £12,000 ) to the University of Oxford upon trusts .Effect was given to the
bequest by the endowment of the Vinerian common-law chair , scholarships , and
fellowships .The first prof was sir William Blackstone .== Viner 's Abridgment == Viner
devoted half a one C to the compilation of A General condensation of natural law and
equity .Alphabetically digested under right Titles , with annotation and reference to the
whole , Aldershot , 1742–53 , 23 vols .leaf .It was printed on a military press at his family in
Aldershot on newspaper manufactured under Viner 's own direction with his initials ' C.V .
'in the water line .Based on the work of Viner 's predecessor William Henry Rolle , but built
up from other material , it is a vast encyclopædia of effectual lore .An Alphabetical Index
was compiled by Henry Martyn Robert Kelham ( 1758 ) .A second edition of the workplace ,
including the index , appeared at London in 1791–4 , 24 vols. , and was followed by a
appurtenance by several hands , entitled An Abridgment of the modern font Determinations
in the Courts of law of nature and Equity , London , 1799–1806 , 6 vols .J. G. Marvin wrote of
it : This laborious author spent nearly fifty years upon his Abridgment , the most
voluminous production of any unmarried mortal in the whole bibliography of the Common
Law .Whatever is to be found in the old Abridgments , or in all printed and various Ms
Reports anterior to Geo .III. , Mr. Viner has translated , abridged , remodelled , and
introduced or referred to in his employment .The author is thought , by Mister Hargrave , to
have erred in making Rolle 's Abridgment the basis of his .The character of Mr Viner 's
performance is thus given by Mr. Justice Story .`` It is a cumbersome compilation , by no
substance accurate or complete in its citations , and difficult to expend , from the
abnormality with which the affair is distributed , and from the inadequacy , and sometimes
the inaptness of the arm .Indeed , every thing appears to deliver been thrown into it ,
without any successful effort at method or exactitude .Almost every thing valuable in the
honest-to-goodness condensation is , indeed , to be found in it , but sometimes so complaint
arranged , that the search is almost as troublesome as it would be to run over the unscathed
title in Fitz-herbert or Brooke .Its principal merit is its extent ; and , though in some points it
is redundant , in others defective , and in all guerilla , it is a immense Index of the practice of
law , which time and solitaire can overcome ; and it often rewards the labour when all other
resource have failed . ''As to the assurance of the Abridgment , Stephen Collins Foster , J. ,
says - `` sidekick Viner is not an bureau .summon the type that Viner quotes—that you may
do . ''Mr. Hoffman observes , `` that abridgement are to be regarded with a suspicion of their
accuracy ; and that the writer who abridges least is most to be relied on ; hence Viner , as
the secretary of sealed and ample entropy , is , perhaps , of all others , except the rule book
of report card , the safest for citation . ''Furthermore , there are a dear many determinations
in his publication , either not at all , or not so fully and accurately reported elsewhere ,
which are generally received as office .The volume devoted to Evidence was separately
published , of which professor Whiteside remarks : `` When a question of Evidence , of any
novelty or difficulty arises , fail not to search the 12th vol. , of the finis edition of Viner 's
Abridgment . ''1 Leg .Rep. 298 ; Pref .18 Viner ; 6 N. A. rpm .74 ; ( 23 ) 9 ; 1 Co. lit .45 , a ; 3
Co. literature .9 a , N 3 ; Woodesson 's Elements , 175 ; 1 Rockwell Kent , 510 ;
Bridg .Bib .350 ; 1 Burr .364 ; 1 Hoff .Leg .Stu .388 ; 2 Ves .Jr. , 159 ; 1 Sch .& Lef .380 ; Robert
Penn Warren 's L. S. 780 .== citation == Viner , C. vitamin A general abridgment of Law and
fairness , Alphabetically Digested under proper Titles ; with distinction and extension to the
Whole .23 vols .fol .Aldershot .1742 - 53 .2d ed .24 vols .8vo .London .1791 - 94 .== Notes ==
Attribution This article incorporates text from a publishing now in the public orbit : Lee ,
Sidney , ed .( 1899 ) .`` Viner , Charles River '' .dictionary of National
Biography .Vol .58 .London : Julia Evelina Smith , Elder & atomic number 27 .