Case upon the Statute for Distribution

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Case upon the Statute for Distribution
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Title not held by The Wolf Law Library
at the College of William & Mary.
  
Author George Wythe
Editor
Translator
Published Richmond, VA: Printed by Thomas Nicolson
Date 1796
Edition
Language English
Volumes volume set
Pages 38
Desc. 8vo (20 or 21 cm.)


Case upon the Statute for Distribution is an essay by George Wythe, a discourse concerning a 1705 Virginia statute for the distribution of a dead person's property. ).[1] It was published as a pamphlet in 1796, by Thomas Nicholson of Richmond, Virginia, who had published Wythe's Reports in 1795, and at least seven other supplements for Wythe, in 1796 and after.[2]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Title page from Wythe's pamphlet, Case upon the Statute for Distribution (Richmond, VA: Thomas Nicholson, 1796). Copy at the American Antiquarian Society.

Upon his death, Wythe's personal copy of this pamphlet was bequeathed with his books to Thomas Jefferson, and subsequently became part of the collection at the Library of Congress. This copy has been bound in a volume with six other Chancery decisions published in pamphlet form. On the spine, the volume is titled: Wythe's Reports. Supplement. Virginia. 1796-99 . The pamphlet for Case upon the Statute for Distribution has a handwritten notation, "no. 1," on the first page.[3]

References

  1. ↑ George Wythe, Case upon the Statute for Distribution(Richmond, VA: Thomas Nicolson, 1796).
  2. ↑ Charles Evans, in his American Bibliography, vol. 11 (1942).
  3. ↑ Library of Congress catalog record. This volume contains pamphlets for: Case upon the Statute for Distribution (1796); Field v. Harrison (1794); Fowler v. Saunders and Goodall v. Bullock (1798, together in the same pamphlet); Wilkins v. Taylor (1799); Yates v. Salle (1792); and Love v. Donelson (1801). For the pamphlet numerations, see WorldCat.

See also

External links

Library of Congress catalog record.

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