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<big>''Doctor and Student, or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England: Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity and Conscience Thereof: also Comparing the Civil, Canon, Common and Statute Laws, and Shewing Wherein They Vary from One Another''</big>
===by Christopher Saint German===
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|author=Christopher Saint German
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot
|year=1761
|edition=Sixteenth
|lang=English
|pages=344, [39]
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_St._Germain Christopher Saint German] (c. 1460-1540/41) was a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24493 St German, Christopher (c.1460–1540/41)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> Born in 1460, Saint German was known for his scholarship and piety.<ref>R. H. Helmholz, "Christopher St. German and the Law of Custom," ''The University of Chicago Law Review'' 70, no.1 (Winter 2003), 130.</ref> As an author, he is best known for his work ''Doctor and Student'', chiefly released in 1528.<ref>Ibid, 129.</ref> Initially, the piece was completely in Latin, but the language changed in later versions.<ref>Baker, "St German, Christopher." </ref><br />
[[File:SaintGermanDoctorAndStudent1761Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Inscription, table of contents.</center>]]
''Doctor and Student'' proposed to “explore the relationship between the principles of English law and conscience.”<ref>Helmholz, “Christopher St. German and the Law of Custom,” 130.</ref> The format was a dialogue between a “Student of the English common law” and a “Doctor of Theology,” in which they discussed the common law. The objectives of this work have been described as providing a description of the substantive law, discussing the tension between the common law and that of the church, and delving into “the role of conscience and equity in law, both in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Chancery court of Chancery] and the common law itself.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> 

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Both [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 13 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> suggest Wythe owned the sixteenth (1761) edition of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:47.</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the sixteenth edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands and lettering piece to the spine and endpapers renewed. Contains early owner signatures to the head of the title page and Table of Contents. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3143350 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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