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{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer''}}
===by Sir John Strange===
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}}[[File:StrangeReportsV11755Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][[wikipedia:John Strange (English politician)|John Strange]] (1695 &ndash; 1754) studied law under Charles Salkeld<ref>A. A. Hanham, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/26635 Strange, Sir John (bap. 1696, d. 1754)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 6, 2013.</ref> and was called to the bar in 1618.<ref>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), 636.</ref> He served in a variety of legal capacities including solicitor general (1737-1742), [[wikipedia:Recorder of London|Recorder of London]] (1739-1742), and [[wikipedia:Master of the Rolls|Master of Rolls]] (1750-1754).<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:131.</ref>

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"Before his death Strange [began] preparing his collection of reports for publication. Because of his willingness to lend his notes to judges there had been many opportunities for copies of this material, unscrupulously obtained, to pass into the hands of legal hacks. It included summaries and arguments of cases where no judgment had been made. It was Strange's chief concern, therefore, to have ready a definitive compilation of reports of adjudged cases that could be published in the event of any pirating of his work. Accordingly, when some of Strange's case notes did indeed appear shortly after his death under the title of ''A Collection of Select Cases Relating to Evidence, by a Late Barrister-at-Law'', his executors acted swiftly to suppress it, and in 1755 his eldest son published the reports as authentically selected, dedicating them to Lord Hardwicke. Reprinted in second and third editions in 1782 and 1795, Strange's reports endured in their usefulness for the rest of the century and after."<ref>Hanham, "Strange, Sir John."</ref>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Strange's rep. 1st. vol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources ([[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 14 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>, Brown's Bibliography<ref>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.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing) include the first edition (1658) of Strange's ''Reports''. LibraryThing does include the caveat "Precise edition unknown, although Wythe was likely to have had a volume from the first edition." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1658 edition.
[[File:StrangeReportsV11755Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf. Front pastedown, volume one, inscribed "John M. Davenport, Oxford."
 
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===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/StrangeReportsOfAdjudgedCases1788Vol1.pdf Volume I] (38MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/StrangeReportsOfAdjudgedCases1788Vol2.pdf Volume II] (32MB PDF)
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==See also==
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*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Chancery Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Exchequer Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:John Strange]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

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[[Category:Folios]]
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