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Legal notebook

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Description: A notebook or handbook, perhaps compiled by a law student or practising lawyer, of definitions and notes on various English legal topics and points of law (e.g. on aggravation, agency, bankruptcy, bills of exchange, damages. devises, deeds, ejectment, gaming, insanity, indictments, landlord, libel, malice, perjury, slander, trover, usury, warrants, etc.), with citations to past decisions and other precedents.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: after 1798.
Call number: mssHM 70721
Provenance: Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., May 22, 2008.
Dimensions: 20 cm :
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Commonplace book. English law: manuscript

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Extracts from Year Books, abridgements of cases and decisions, law reports, precedents and formularies, notes on the Assize of Forests and other legal matters. Owned by and [partly in the hand of?] Sir John Port.

mssHM 46980

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Law student's notebook

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Notebook, presumably of a law student at one of the Inns of Court in London, England. It includes notes on writs and on several cases chiefly regarding Essex, as well as a collection of precedents in copyhold law and an alphabetical index to Christopher St. German's Dyaloge in Englysshe bytwyxt a doctoure of dyvynyte and a student in the lawes of Englande

mssHM 55669

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Legal notebook, possibly a register or calendar of writs with other material on lawsuits

Manuscripts

A register or possibly calendar of writs with a few miscellaneous notes on individual lawsuits and other legal matters from the reigns of Elizabeth through Charles I, written in Latin in one small careful professional "common law hand." Occasional later fragmentary additions in secretary hands, and in English rather than Latin. Includes an index, or "tabula," at the end.

mssHM 70981

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Commonplace book. English law: manuscript

Manuscripts

A "book of entries," or collection of precedents of pleading.

mssHM 948

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Legal

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Approx. 35 items: collection of article copies dealing with LAT and TM involvement in legal cases, and court rulings, 1930s - 1970s; lists of LAT retractions, 1974 - 1980, 16-pp.; 2-pp. memo, 3/2/1981, "Final disposition of libel cases"; 33-pp. copy of document (handwritten date added - "Feb 1981 edition," Page 1, "Introduction," which begins "This memorandum summarizes recent developments in the law affecting the publication of news and commentary"; etc.

mssLAT

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Dictionary of Memorable Things in Nature, Arts, & Sciences

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A set of essayistic and somewhat idiosyncratic definitions of objects, concepts, and qualities fron nature, science, and the arts, arranged in alphabetical order. The first ten entries under the letter A, for example, are for Academy, Accent, Acid, Action in Law, Admiration, Admiral, Adultery, Agarick [mushroom], Agate, and Ages of Man, with two or three paragraphs on each.

mssHM 76263

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