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}}Considered the "most important" of the equity abridgments of the eighteenth century,<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:171.</ref> ''Equity Cases Abridged'' was mostly likely written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Bacon Matthew Bacon], author of [[New Abridgment of the Law|''A New Abridgment of the Law'']]. "The evidence for this fact is partly indirect&mdash;cases from ''Equity Cases Abridged'' are copied literally in Bacon's ''Abridgment''; and partly direct&mdash;Sir William Lee stated in his copy of ''Equity Cases Abridged'' that it was written by Bacon."<ref>Ibid., 172.</ref> Others have attributed at least the first volume to Henry Pooley.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 490.</ref> The two volumes enjoy divergent reputations. The cases in volume one "are reported by a good lawyer, who understood perfectly well the decisions he was reporting; and the volume often renders clear and sensible cases which in Vernon are unintelligible or very improbable."<ref>Ibid., 491.</ref> The second volume "stands less well than the 1st. It was spoken of disrespectfully ..."<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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}}Considered the "most important" of the equity abridgments of the eighteenth century,<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:171.</ref> ''Equity Cases Abridged'' was mostly likely written by [[wikipedia: Matthew Bacon| Matthew Bacon]], author of [[New Abridgment of the Law|''A New Abridgment of the Law'']]. "The evidence for this fact is partly indirect&mdash;cases from ''Equity Cases Abridged'' are copied literally in Bacon's ''Abridgment''; and partly direct&mdash;Sir William Lee stated in his copy of ''Equity Cases Abridged'' that it was written by Bacon."<ref>Ibid., 172.</ref> Others have attributed at least the first volume to Henry Pooley.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 490.</ref> The two volumes enjoy divergent reputations. The cases in volume one "are reported by a good lawyer, who understood perfectly well the decisions he was reporting; and the volume often renders clear and sensible cases which in Vernon are unintelligible or very improbable."<ref>Ibid., 491.</ref> The second volume "stands less well than the 1st. It was spoken of disrespectfully ..."<ref>Ibid.</ref>
  
 
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A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity
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Title page from A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, volume one, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley
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Published In the Savoy: H. Lintot
Date 1756
Edition Fourth
Language English
Volumes 2 volume set
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Desc. Folio (37 cm.)
Location Shelf H-5
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Considered the "most important" of the equity abridgments of the eighteenth century,[1] Equity Cases Abridged was mostly likely written by Matthew Bacon, author of A New Abridgment of the Law. "The evidence for this fact is partly indirect—cases from Equity Cases Abridged are copied literally in Bacon's Abridgment; and partly direct—Sir William Lee stated in his copy of Equity Cases Abridged that it was written by Bacon."[2] Others have attributed at least the first volume to Henry Pooley.[3] The two volumes enjoy divergent reputations. The cases in volume one "are reported by a good lawyer, who understood perfectly well the decisions he was reporting; and the volume often renders clear and sensible cases which in Vernon are unintelligible or very improbable."[4] The second volume "stands less well than the 1st. It was spoken of disrespectfully ..."[5]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Ca. in Eq.abridged. 2.v. fol." and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. The 1756 edition is the first two volume folio edition, although we cannot be certain which edition Wythe owned. Three of the Wythe Collection sources (Dean's Memo[6], Brown's Bibliography[7] and George Wythe's Library[8] on LibraryThing) list the 1756 (fourth) edition, which is the one acquired by the Wolf Law Library.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary calf with tooled edge on cover near spine. Rebacked in period-style calf with red morocco, gilt-lettered labels.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

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References

  1. ↑ W. S. Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:171.
  2. ↑ Ibid., 172.
  3. ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 490.
  4. ↑ Ibid., 491.
  5. ↑ Ibid.
  6. ↑ Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 11 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013.

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