Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer
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by Sir John Strange
John Strange (1695-1754) studied law under Charles Salkeld[1] and was called to the bar in 1618.[2] He served in a variety of legal capacities including solicitor general (1737-1742), recorder of London (1739-1742), and Master of Rolls (1750-1754).[3]
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.[4]
Bibliographic Information
Author: Sir John Strange
Title: Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, from Trinity Term in the Second Year of King George I. to Trinity Term in the Twenty-First Year of King George II.
Publication Info: In the Savoy: Printed by H. Lintot, law-printer to the King, for W. Sandby, 1755.
Edition: First edition.
Extent: Two volumes.
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References
- ↑ A. A. Hanham, "Strange, Sir John (bap. 1696, d. 1754)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 6 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)_
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:131.
- ↑ Hanham, "Strange, Sir John."
