Other contributors included Challis, Holland, Ilbert, Maitland, Blake Odgers, Phillimore, and "many other recognized authorities on the subjects with which they deal".
[5] In 1898, the Law Quarterly Review said of volume 4 of the First Edition: We venture to observe that, while the principal articles are well and often extremely well done, the others do not always achieve that precision and completeness which are the crown of virtue to a great book of reference.
A little more space and trouble might be given to the minor and more obscure headings, at the cost, if need be, of giving a little less to those on which good text-books are available and for which, therefore, practitioners are less likely to rely on the Encyclopaedia.
Mr. Charles Burney's article in the present edition occupies nearly fifty pages.
Those in the present volume (e. g. Abstract of Title, Advowson, Allotments, Arbitration, Attestation, &c.) look eminently practical and useful, and should in most cases be sufficient for the ordinary needs of the practitioner without the necessity of consulting other works.