Les Reports des Divers Special Cases

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by Thomas Siderfin

Les Reports des Divers Special Cases
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Title page from Les Reports des Divers Special Cases, two volumes in one, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Thomas Siderfin
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Published London: Printed by W. Ralins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for Samuel Keble
Date 1683-84
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Language English
Volumes 1 volume set
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Desc. 32 cm. Title varies: v. 2, Le second part de Les reports du Thomas Siderfin ... Preface to part 1 signed: John Gee; preface to part 2 signed: Rob. Siderfin. Law Library Wythe Collection copy recent blind calf with gold tooled label; autograph on title page, "[Gwynd Hany?]".
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Siderfin's Reports, published posthumously, includes "some cases not very intelligible; some, too, perhaps wrongly reported."[1] The quality of the two parts is strongly divergent. The first part, thought by some to be the only part ever intended by the author for publication,[2] covers cases from 1660 to 1670. The second part reports cases from 1657 to 1659. Cases from the latter caused one justice to remark that the volume was "fit to be burned."[3].


Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound recently in blind calf with gold tooled label; includes signature on title page: "[Gwynd Hany?]".

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 297.
  2. Wallace, The Reporters, 296.
  3. Wallace, The Reporters, 195.