[2] J. G. Marvin said: These Reports, as originally published by the author, were not what the profession had a right to expect from a lawyer of Mr. Ambler's experience and abilities.
In the preface to his Reports he says: "This work, I am aware, derives its only pretentions to merit, from being an accurate relation of facts, and opinions of great men presiding in courts of justice."
The facts of most of the cases are stated shortly and defectively; in many, the dicta of the judges, in some, even the points themselves have been erroneously reported.
The notes taken in the earlier part of his life, evidently bear few marks of subsequent revision; and the frequent discovery of errors has given a reputation for inaccuracy to the publication."
Ambler's Reports embrace a period of forty years, and contain many of the decisions of those great Chancellors, Lords Hardwicke and Northington.