Plusieurs Tres-Bons Cases
by John Latch
Little is known of John Latch. His reports result from a copy Latch made of another manuscript borrowed, perhaps, from Gefrey Palmer.[1] Since Latch's reports were published posthumously, he may never have intended to publish his copy. Indeed, the uneven quality of the reports hints that Latch had no such intention. One writer describes the volume, "Sometimes, though not often, there is a full and pretty sensible case; then a good many cases in which you have nothing but some abstract point of law in two or three to a half dozen lines, without either statement of case, argument, or judgment ...[2] Another writes, "the want of the finishing touch is in many parts glaringly conspicuous."[3]
Bibliographic Information
Author: John Latch.
Title: Plusieurs Tres-Bons Cases: Come Ils Estoyent Adjudgees es Trois Premiers Ans du Raign du Feu Roy Charles le Premier en la Court de Bank le Roy, non Encore Publiees per Aucun Autre.
Publication Info: London: Printed by T.R. for H. Twyford, T. Dring, and J. Place, 1661.
Edition: First edition; [12], 275, [21] pages.
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Brown's Bibliography[4] lists this title based on entries in the manuscript version of John Marshall's law notes.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
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References
- ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 447.
- ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 263.
- ↑ Marvin, Legal Bibliography, 447.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
