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{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Reports of Cases in Equity: Argued and Decreed in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, Chiefly in the Reign of King George I ... to which are Added Some Select Cases in Equity, Heard and Determined in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland''}}
===by Geoffrey Gilbert===
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|publoc=[London] In the Savoy
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Gilbert_(judge) Sir Geoffrey (sometimes Jeffray or Jeffrey) Gilbert] (1674–1726) is probably better known to legal history for his treatises rather than his case reports. Gilbert joined the bar in 1698. He became judge of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28Ireland%29 Court of King's Bench] in Ireland in 1714, then [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Baron_of_the_Exchequer_%28Ireland%29 Chief Baron of the Exchequer] in Ireland in 1715.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:140.</ref> In 1722, after resigning his office in Ireland, Gilbert was appointed baron of the English [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchequer_of_Pleas Court of Exchequer]. His case reports were published anonymously and posthumously, but Gilbert's contemporaries had no doubt of the author: "That the ''Reports of Cases in Equity'' came out of [Gilbert's] study is most certain."<ref>Charles Viner, ''A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested under Proper Titles with Notes and References to the Whole'' (Aldershot: Printed for the Author, by Agreement with the Law-Patentees, 1741-1753), 18:Preface.</ref> At least one more recent author contends that the attribution may be misplaced, "''Reports of Cases in Equity … by a Late Learned Judge'' (1734) include some of Gilbert's draft judgments, but also some reports which cannot be by him."<ref>M. Macnair, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/10688 Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674–1726)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 7, 2013.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe definitely owned this title&mdash;a copy of the second edition at the University of Virginia includes [[George Wythe's bookplate|his bookplate]] and an inscription on the inside front board, ''Given by Thos. Jefferson to D. Carr, 1806''. Not surprisingly, it is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Gilbert’s reports.," given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection]] sources ([[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), 5 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>, Brown's 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> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing) list the second edition of Gilbert's ''Reports''. The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the second edition from another rare book collection to the George Wythe Collection.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style with green label and red marbelled endpapers. Signature of "Nathan Sanford" on title page and first page of text. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637449090103 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/48336 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=uH42AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].
 
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