Les Reports des Divers Special Cases

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by Thomas Siderfin

Siderfin's Reports, published posthumously, includes "some cases not very intelligible; some, too, perhaps wrongly reported."[1] The quality of the two parts is strongly divergent. The first part, thought by some to be the only part ever intended by the author for publication,[2] covers cases from 1660 to 1670. The second part reports cases from 1657 to 1659. Cases from the latter caused one justice to remark that the volume was "fit to be burned."[3].

Bibliographic Information

Author: Thomas Siderfin

Title: Les Reports des Divers Special Cases Argue & Adjudge en le Court del Bank le Roy et Auxy en le Co. Ba. & l'Exchequer.

Publication Info: London: Printed by W. Ralins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for Samuel Keble, 1683-84.

Edition: First edition; 2 volumes in 1.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound recently in blind calf with gold tooled label; includes signature on title page: "[Gwynd Hany?]".

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 297.
  2. Wallace, The Reporters, 296.
  3. Wallace, The Reporters, 195.