Reports of Certain Cases
From Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia
by William Hughes
Hughes was more of a translator and compiler of legal works than a reporter of cases in the strictest sense. His first published work was The Parson's Law (1641). On 25 September 1645 the Stationers' Company records an entry for The Mirror of Justice … Translated out of the Old French into English by William Hughes of Gray's Inn. Other works followed in the 1650s, including Reports of Certain Cases … Reviewed … by … Justice Godbolt, published by Hughes in 1652. The Commentaries upon Original Writs, which produced the original writs from the books, duly edited, was published in 1655. An Exact Abridgement of Public Acts, covering 1640–56, appeared in 1657, and in 1659 he produced The Declarations and Other Pleadings in Coke's reports. [1]
Bibliographic Information
Author: William Hughes, (1587/8-~1663)
Title: Reports of Certain Cases, Arising in the Severall Courts of Record at Westminster in the Raignes of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charles With the Resolutions of the Judges of the Said Courts, Upon Debate and Solemn Arguments
Publication Info: London: Printed by T. N. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and Gabriell Bedell, 1652.
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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
References
- ↑ Stuart Handley, ‘Hughes, William (1587/8–1663?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 5 June 2013
