A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer
by Sir Michael Foster
Sir Michael Foster (1689-1763), the son of an attorney and member of Exeter College, Oxford, was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1713.[1] Foster became recorder of Bristol in 1735 and sergeant-at-law in 1736; he accepted an appointment to the Court of King's Bench in 1745.[2] Holdsworth praises Foster's reports as "the most remarkable and scholarly of all the reports of this period."[3] He later expounds "[t]hey are remarkable in form because he appended learned notes to the cases, and added four very able discourses on various points of Crown law" and they are "remarkable in substance by reason of their author's learning, his clarity of expression, and his accuracy of statement."[4] Another author describes the reports as being "a work of very high authority."[5]
Bibliographic Information
Author: Sir Michael Foster.
Title: A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry and of Other Crown Cases.
Published: Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press ; London: sold by J. Worrall and B. Tovey, 1762.
Edition: First edition.
Extent: 412 pages.
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Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Commercially rebound ca. 1980; stamped, "New York University School of Law", on verso of title page.
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References
- ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:135.
- ↑ N. G. Jones, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9964 "Foster, Sir Michael (1689–1763)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 7 June 2013. (Subscription required for access.)
- ↑ Holdsworth, A History of English Law, 135.
- ↑ Holdsworth, A History of English Law, 136.
- ↑ Edward Foss, Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870, (London: John Murray, 1870), 279.
