Cases in Law and Equity
Cases in Law and Equity, Chiefly During the Time the Late Earl of Macclesfield Presided in the Courts of King's-Bench and Chancery
by Robert Lucas
Not much is known about Robert Lucas. Evidently, he was a barrister who left the legal profession to become a minister in the county of York.[1] He also authored Cases in Law and Equity the tenth of the Modern Reports published in 1736.[2] The work does not possess much authority and has been cited infrequently.[3]
| Cases in Law and Equity | |
 Title page from Cases in Law and Equity, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Robert Lucas |
| Published | London, In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for T. Ward and E. Wicksteed |
| Date | 1736 |
| Edition | First |
| Language | English |
| Pages | ii, 538, [94] |
| Desc. | Folio (34 cm.) |
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Cases in L. & Eq. or 10th. Modern. fol." and kept by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson later sold a copy to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volume no longer survives to verify Wythe's previous ownership.[4] Both the Brown Bibliography[5] and George Wythe's Library[6] on LibraryThing list the first edition (1736) of this title. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy of the same edition.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Rebound ca. 1980.
View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
References
- ↑ John William Wallace, ‘’The Reporters Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks’’ 386
- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:346 [no.2075].
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
- ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe" accessed on March 4, 2014.
