A Report of the Case between Field and Harrison, Determined by the High Court of Chancery, in Which the Decree was Reversed by the Court of Appeals

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A Report of the Case between Field and Harrison
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Author George Wythe
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Published Richmond, VA: Printed and sold by Thomas Nicolson
Date 1796
Edition
Language English
Volumes volume set
Pages 32
Desc. 8vo (20 cm.)

A Report of the Case Between Field and Harrison[1] is a published opinion by George Wythe, for the case Field v. Harrison, Wythe 273 (1794), in Virginia's High Court of Chancery.[2] The report was published in pamphlet form in 1796 by Thomas Nicolson of Richmond, Virginia, who had published Wythe's Reports in 1795, and at least seven other supplements for Wythe, in 1796 and after.[3]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Title page from Wythe's pamphlet, A Report of the Case between Field and Harrison, Determined by the High Court of Chancery, in Which the Decree was Reversed by the Court of Appeals (1796). Copy at the Library of Virginia.

Upon his death, a copy of this pamphlet which had belonged to Wythe was bequeathed with his books to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had the pamphlet bound into a volume with seven of Wythe's other Chancery decisions which were published as supplements.[4] Subsequently, the volume became part of the collection at the Library of Congress, titled on the spine: Wythe's Reports. Supplement. Virginia. 1796-99.[5] The pamphlet for A Report of the Case Between Field and Harrison has a handwritten notation, "no. 2," on the first page.[6]

The copy at the Library of Congress has "MS. corrections in the handwriting of Wythe."[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ George Wythe, A Report of the Case between Field and Harrison, Determined by the High Court of Chancery, in Which the Decree was Reversed by the Court of Appeals (Richmond, VA: Thomas Nicolson, 1796).
  2. ↑ George Wythe, Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery with Remarks upon Decrees by the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions, 2nd ed., ed. B.B. Minor (Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1852), 273.
  3. ↑ Charles Evans, in his American Bibliography, vol. 11 (1942).
  4. ↑ "Six tracts originally bound together in calf for Jefferson by Milligan on June 30, 1807 (cost $1.00). Rebound in Buckram for the Library of Congress." E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1953), [2:208].
  5. ↑ 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). See also: Aylett v. Aylett (1793), and Overton v. Ross (1803).
  6. ↑ For the pamphlet numerations, see WorldCat.
  7. ↑ Sowerby, 2:208.

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