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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}''The Case of Overtons Mill''<ref>George Wythe, ''The Case of Overtons Mill: Prolegomena, in the Richmond Common-Law District Court, Elizabeth Overton and Richard Overton, Plaintiffs, against David Ross, Defendent'' [''sic''] (Richmond, VA: Thomas Nicolson, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1803</del>?).</ref> is a published, informal opinion by [[George Wythe]], for the case ''[[Overton v. Ross]]'' in Virginia's High Court of Chancery. Wythe had the opinion published in pamphlet form&mdash;which he subtitled a 'Prolegomena'&mdash;almost certainly printed by Thomas Nicolson of Richmond, Virginia, who had published [[Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery|Wythe's Reports]] in 1795, and at least seven other supplements for Wythe, in 1796 and after. Wythe states that the cause was heard on "the 25th day of may, in the third year of the nineteenth centurie of the christian aera" ([[#Page 15|p. 15]]) and quotes directly from the opinion of the Court of Appeals, which was printed in volume three of [[Daniel Call|Daniel Call's]] ''[[Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia]],'' printed in 1805. The pamphlet must have been published between then and June 1806, when Wythe died.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}''The Case of Overtons Mill''<ref>George Wythe, ''The Case of Overtons Mill: Prolegomena, in the Richmond Common-Law District Court, Elizabeth Overton and Richard Overton, Plaintiffs, against David Ross, Defendent'' [''sic''] (Richmond, VA: Thomas Nicolson, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1805</ins>?).</ref> is a published, informal opinion by [[George Wythe]], for the case ''[[Overton v. Ross]]'' in Virginia's High Court of Chancery. Wythe had the opinion published in pamphlet form&mdash;which he subtitled a 'Prolegomena'&mdash;almost certainly printed by Thomas Nicolson of Richmond, Virginia, who had published [[Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery|Wythe's Reports]] in 1795, and at least seven other supplements for Wythe, in 1796 and after. Wythe states that the cause was heard on "the 25th day of may, in the third year of the nineteenth centurie of the christian aera" ([[#Page 15|p. 15]]) and quotes directly from the opinion of the Court of Appeals, which was printed in volume three of [[Daniel Call|Daniel Call's]] ''[[Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia]],'' printed in 1805. The pamphlet must have been published between then and June 1806, when Wythe died.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Overton v. Ross'' was not reported in the second edition of Wythe's Reports, in 1852.<ref>Benjamin Blake Minor, ed., [[Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery (1852)|''Decisions of Cases In Virginia, By the High Court Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees By the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions,'']] by George Wythe (Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1852), xli.</ref><ref>Minor had access to a bound volume of pamphlets which had belonged to James Madison, and was then in the possession of William Green of Culpeper, Virginia. The ''Catalogue of the Choice and Extensive Law and Miscellaneous Library of the late Hon. William Green, LL.D.,... to be sold by Auction, January 18th, 1881, at Richmond, VA.'' (Richmond: John E. Laughton, Jr., 1881), lists the volume as follows (p. 200):</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Overton v. Ross'' was not reported in the second edition of Wythe's Reports, in 1852.<ref>Benjamin Blake Minor, ed., [[Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery (1852)|''Decisions of Cases In Virginia, By the High Court Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees By the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions,'']] by George Wythe (Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1852), xli.</ref><ref>Minor had access to a bound volume of pamphlets which had belonged to James Madison, and was then in the possession of William Green of Culpeper, Virginia. The ''Catalogue of the Choice and Extensive Law and Miscellaneous Library of the late Hon. William Green, LL.D.,... to be sold by Auction, January 18th, 1881, at Richmond, VA.'' (Richmond: John E. Laughton, Jr., 1881), lists the volume as follows (p. 200):</div></td></tr>
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