Edward Burtensbaw Sugden Saint Leonards, baron, an English jurist, born in London in February, 1781, died there, Jan. 29, 1875. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, was admitted to practice in 1807, gave up his chamber practice and confined himself to the chancery bar in 1817, became king's counsel and bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1822, and was elected to parliament for Weymouth in 1828, and for Ripon in 1837. He was knighted in 1829, and was solicitor general in 1829-'31, lord chancellor of Ireland in 1835 and again in 1841-'6, and lord chancellor of England for a few months in 1852, when he was raised to the peerage. He published "A Concise and Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers" (London, 1805; 14th ed., 1862; 7th American ed., New York, 1851); "A Practical Treatise on Powers" (1808; 8th ed., 1861); "Letters to a Man of Property, on Sales, Purchases, Mortgages,"etc. (1809; 5th ed., 1829); a "Treatise on the Law of Property, as administered in the House of Lords" (1849); and "A Handbook on Property Law " (1858; 8th ed., 1869).