Edward Chitty (1804–1863) was an English legal reporter, judge in

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, and

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Life

The third son of

Joseph Chitty Joseph Chitty (12 March 1776 – 17 February 1841) was an English lawyer and legal writer, author of some of the earliest practitioners' texts and founder of an important dynasty of lawyers. Life and practice He was himself the son of a Joseph Ch ...

the elder, he was

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in 1829, and practised as an equity draughtsman. In 1840 he went to

, and was there for many years, during which he "took up the task of describing land snails from this Antillean island". He returned to England, and died at

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on 28 September 1863.

Works

He published a series of reports of cases in bankruptcy with Edward Deacon, beginning in 1833, and with

Basil Montagu Basil Montagu (24 April 1770 – 27 November 1851) was a British jurist, barrister, writer and philanthropist. He was educated at Charterhouse and studied law at Cambridge. He was significantly involved in reforms to bankruptcy laws of Britain. He ...

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. An illustrated version came out in 1845. His Jamaican work on snails (on which he had also written with C.B.Adams) was published as ''On the Jamaican ''Cyclotus'', and Descriptions of Twenty-one proposed New Species and Two New Varieties of that Subgenus from Jamaica'' and ''On ''Stoastomidae'' as a family and on seven proposed new genera, sixty-one new species,, and two new varieties from Jamaica.'' in 1857.Proc.Zool.Soc.London (1857), pp.142-157 & 162-200
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