Antiquarian Law and Legal History: AALL 1996 Catalogue

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* Early edition. The Code Civil des Français, promulgated in 1804, first became formally known as the Napoleonic Code with the 1807 edition. A turning point in European history, "[t]he code was based on the Dremises of creating a purely rational body of law, of the equality of all citizens, the separation of civil from ecclestiastical regulation, and on the principles of freedom of person, freedom of contract, and inviolability of private property. OCL 235. Brunet II:118 (citing 1807 ed.).

* First published in 1486. Nebrija was a prominent Spanish jurist and grammarian, who apart from authoring the present lexicon revised Accurius' Glossa ordinaria (or the Great Gloss), which in turn systematized Justinian's Institutes, Digest, and Code. OCL:10;873. Graesse IV:654.

* First edition. An early and popular work that collects all the laws and cases relating to game. Alphabetically arranged, Nelson discusses the numerous changes that were then occuring in the game laws. S&M 1:465 (41). HLCII:179.

* Contains statutes from 1703 to 1820. Indexed. HLC II:191. Marvin 536.

* First American edition. First published in 1787, Park's Marine Insurances was the first legal work on insurance written by an English lawyer and the first to appear in America. Holdsworth has called it "the best text-book upon the law of insurance." HEL XlI:390ff. Marine Insurances went through numerous editions, both English and American, and remained the standard text until well into the fourth decade of the nineteenth century. Parrish 348. James 66.

* S&M I: 570(10). HLC II:3 16. (Apparently complete, although S&M and HLC list pagination as xvi, 194 pp.).

* A curious account, reprinted from the first edition (1681) to "instruct the world, that the Corruption of Judges often creates Crimes and Misery amongst the People." The publisher was the grand nephew of Benjamin Franklin. S&M 1:220(11).

* Considered by Pollock and Maitland as a "principal book." The first volume covers the period from the Roman invasion to the accession of Henry VII, with the second continuing to 1874. Indexed. Marke 452. HLC II:356.

* A counterfeiter and master of disguise, it is estimated that over his career Price defrauded his victims, including the Bank of England, of one-hundred thousand pounds. Price was ultimately apprehended and sentenced to death, but first hung hirnself in his prison cell. Encyc. of World Crime 2499-500.

* First American edition. First published anonymously in England in 1798 and attributed to Sir James Macintosh. A series of fifty-eight letters designed to improve the student of law in such matters as eloquence, integrity, urbanity, memory, religion, philosopy, and manners. Marvin 596.Marke 230. S6:M 1:36(68) (citing English edition).

* Second edition. Kent acknowledges in his Commentaries his significant debt to Reeve on the subject of domestic relations. Marvin 603 (citing first ed.). "American text writing as a significant force in our legal devdopment begins in 1816 with Reeve's Baron and Femme." Marke 755 (first ed.). Parrish 384 (first ed.).

* The first extended treatment of the subject, Tucker's Blackstone is a key resource for understanding how Americans viewed English common law in the years following the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Based on his lectures at the College of William and Mary, Tucker interprets Blackstone's often antidemocratic viewpoint in the American context. A strong proponent of the First Amendment, he elaborates a theory of freedom of speech and press that is more expansive than in the English tradition. Tucker's Blackstone has been cited in numerous cases by the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to discern the "original intent" of the Constitution. A monumental work of continuing relevance, this reprint edition is prefaced by a new critical introduction by Professors Paul Finkelrnan and David Cobin.