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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Style's Practical Register: Begun in the Reign of King Charles I Consisting of Rules, Orders, and the Principal Observations Concerning the Practice of The Common Law in the Courts at Westminster: Particularly the King's Bench, as Well in Matters Criminal as Civil''}}
===by William Style===
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|shorttitle=Style's Practical Register
|author=William Style
|edition=Fourth, with large additions
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for C. Harper, D. Brown, J. Walthoe and D. Midwinter
|year=1707
|pages=682
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Style William Style] (c.1599–1679) was admitted to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple] in 1619, and was called to the bar in 1628. He does not appear to have been an overly successful lawyer and is better remembered for his legal publications.<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26755 Style, William (c.1599–1679)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed May 30, 2013.</ref> His ''Practical Register'', first published in 1657, "groups the rules of practice, together with a little information as to the substantive law, under alphabetical heads."<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:598.</ref> It "was a useful guide to modern practice decisions"<ref>Baker, "Style, William."</ref> and was reprinted multiple times.
[[File:StylePracticalRegister1707Inscriptions.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscriptions, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==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), 15 (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Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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> include William Style's ''Practical Register''based on Alan Smith's assertion that Jefferson cites the work in his commonplace book.<ref>Alan McKinley Smith, "Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776: The Birth of an American Profession" (PhD diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1967), 263.</ref> Dean lists the 1657 edition while Brown suggests the fourth edition (1707) based on the copy [[Thomas Jefferson]] sold to the Library of Congress in 1815.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:282 [no.1914].</ref> Notably, Brown's study of Jefferson's commonplace books revealed no references to the Style's ''Practical Register'', making its inclusion in [[Wythe's Library]] questionable. Despite the inconclusive evidence, the Wolf Law Library added a copy of the fourth edition to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound with later calf retaining original boards, raised bands, gilt title and date on spine. Includes signature, "Wm. Cumming" and annotations to preliminaries. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. <br />
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Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637634692525 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/1469028 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Narrationes Modernae|Narrationes Modernae, or, Modern Reports Begun in the Now Upper Bench Court at Westminster]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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