Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia

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by Daniel Call

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia

Title page from Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, volume one, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Daniel Call
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Published Richmond: Printed by Thomas Nicholson
Date 1801-1805
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Daniel Call was born May 5, 1765, the supposed son of a county lieutenant in the American Revolution, William Call. He studied law in the 1780s under the guidance of George Wythe. Soon after, he began practicing in some Petersburg courts as well as in the surrounding towns. In June of 1791 he met the requirements to practice in the Virginia Court of Appeals. Professionally, Call was known as an attorney and court reporter. As an attorney he concentrated on land and equity law.

He was most well-known for publishing case law from the Commonwealth or Virginia. No official law reporters and a small number of published records from the highest tribunal existed in Virginia courts before 1820. Call took on the daunting task of compiling copies of opinions, case notes, his own documents, and documents from judges as well as those of his fellow lawyers to create an applicable set of precedent for the Virginia courts.[1] Call was the reporter of six volumes of Virginia law in total[2]. The first three volumes of his collection, namely Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, covered the span of case law history from 1797 to 1803. He published three more volumes in 1833 that covered cases from the first Court of Appeals and several decisions from the United States Circuit Court.[3] Call pulled information from a colleague of his, St. George Tucker, in order to bridge the gaps in his collection created by unreported Court of Appeals cases. Call used Tucker’s notes primarily in the latter three volumes.[4] The last of the volumes was dedicated to judges of the Court of Appeals and bid farewell to his colleagues. Call died May 20, 1840 and was buried next to a good friend and attorney, John Marshall.[5]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in leather tan binding. Purchased from Capitol Hill Books.

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

External Links

Volume I:Google Books

Volume II:Google Books

References

  1. Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Bland-Cannon. Vol. 2. Edited by Sara B. Bearss, John T. Kneebbone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway. Richmond, Virginia: The Library of Virginia, 2001.
  2. Hobson, Charles F. "St. George Tucker's Law Papers." William and Mary Law Review. no. 4 (2006): 1248-49. http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol47/iss4/6 (accessed October 18, 2013).
  3. Dictionary of Virginia Biography.
  4. Hobson, "St. George Tucker's Law Papers."
  5. Dictionary of Virginia Biography.