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by Sir Thomas Raymond

Reports of Divers Special Cases
Title not held by The Wolf Law Library at the College of William & Mary.
Author	Sir Thomas Raymond
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Published	London, In the Savoy: Printed by H. Lintot (assignee of E. Sayer) for D. Browne [etc.]
Date	1743
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Volumes	volume set
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Sir Thomas Raymond was a judge of the King’s Bench in the late seventeenth century. He entered Gray’s Inn in 1645, one year before he graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge. He was first called to the bar in 1651 and joined the sarjeants of law in 1677. He was elevated to the bench as a baron of the exchequer in 1679 and received a knighthood later that year. He was transferred to the common pleas in February of 1680 and to the King’s Bench two months later. He died in 1683 and was survived by his son Robert, who would eventually serve on the King’s Bench as chief justice. ^[1]

Raymond’s case reporter was first published in 1696.^[2] The version Wythe owned was the second edition, which was first printed in London in 1743.^[3] Little commentary exists on the quality of the case reports, but they are cited to by several court opinions, including early U.S. court decisions. One such decision is Georgia v. Brailford, which is one of the earliest U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the first involving a jury.^[4] The court opinion there cited to Whaley v. Anderson, specifically to precedent relating to forfeiture of property by a joint tenant.^[5] Another Supreme Court case to cite Raymond is MacDonogh v. Dannery, a 1796 case involving a maritime dispute between England and France.^[6] The court opinion erroneously cites a case from Comberbach’s Reports, but meant to cite Hughs v. Cornelius.^[7] Hughs provides precedent on neutral jurisdiction over prize disputes between two belligerent nations.^[8]

References

1. ↑ Stuart Handley, "Raymond, Sir Thomas (1626/7–1683)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), accessed March 4, 2015.
2. ↑ Ibid.
3. ↑ Ibid.
4. ↑ The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, ed. Maeva Marcus et. al., vol. 6, Cases: 1790-1795 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 73.
5. ↑ Ibid.
6. ↑ The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, ed. Maeva Marcus et. al., vol. 7, Cases: 1796-1797 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 38.
7. ↑ Ibid.
8. ↑ Ibid.