Love, against Donelson and Hodgson

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Love against Donelson
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Title not held by The Wolf Law Library
at the College of William & Mary.
 
Author George Wythe
Editor
Translator
Published n.p. (Richmond, VA?): n.p. (Thomas Nicolson?)
Date n.d. (1801?)
Edition
Language English
Volumes volume set
Pages 34
Desc. 8vo (21 cm.)


Love, against Donelson and Hodgson is a published decision by George Wythe, for the case Love v. Donelson in Virginia's High Court of Chancery.[1] It was published in pamphlet form in 1801 or later, probably printed by Thomas Nicholson of Richmond, Virginia, who also published Wythe's Reports in 1795, and several other pamphlets for Wythe in 1796, and later.[2]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

After his death, Wythe's personal copy was bequeathed with his books to Thomas Jefferson, and subsequently became part of the collection at the Library of Congress. Several pages of this copy contain manuscript corrections by Wythe in his hand, including a footnote in Greek, apparently scraped off and corrected to 'Κάλχας Θεστορίδης οἰωνοπόλων': "Calchas son of Thestor, far the best of augurs" (bird-diviners).[3]

References

  1. George Wythe, Love, against Donelson and Hodgson (Richmond, VA: Thomas Nicolson, 1801?).
  2. Wythe states that the case took place in the "first year of the nineteenth centurie"; it is the opinion of the editors that the Chancellor would have understood that the new century began in the year 1801, and therefore the pamphlet must have been published sometime between then and the year of Wythe's death, in 1806.
  3. Calchas was the prophet of Troy. Homer, Iliad 1.69.

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