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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language''}} |shorttitle=A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Publish'd in His Life-Time; Together with H |shorttitle=English Works of Sir Henry Spelman
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  • Table of contents for the ''[[English Works of Sir Henry Spelman|The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Publish'd in His Life-Time; Together with H : ''Main Article: [[English Works of Sir Henry Spelman| The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Publish'd in His Life-Time; Together with H
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  • ...lice]] &mdash; the first of its kind in America and only the second in the English-speaking world.<ref>William Clarkin, ''Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wyt
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  • ...Sir. ''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. In English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat (with References to All the Ancient and Modern ...m, Kt ... Written with His Own Hand in French, and Now Faithfully tr. into English, to Which are Added Some Remarkable Cases Reported by Other Learned Pens Si
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  • ...Sir. ''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. In English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat (with References to All the Ancient and Modern ...m, Kt ... Written with His Own Hand in French, and Now Faithfully tr. into English, to Which are Added Some Remarkable Cases Reported by Other Learned Pens Si
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  • ...rd. ''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, kt. In English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat; (With References to All the Ancient and Modern ...of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers]]. 8th ed. in English. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1765. <span style="font-weight: b
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  • ...emoirs, that he was taught at school nothing more than reading and writing English, and the five first rules of Arithmetic. Such were the only instructions ''
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  • ...ard. ''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, kt. In English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat; (With References to All the Ancient and Modern ...ard. ''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, kt. In English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat; (With References to All the Ancient and Modern
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  • The writer of these notes, differing in this point with three capital English judges, is aware that he will be regarded with a fastidious eye by men whos
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...legal developments there; they just reprinted Blackstone's discussions of English law.<ref>Ibid., 1:i.</ref> Tucker also felt that Blackstone's sympathy with
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. in English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat (with References to All the Ancient and Modern |lang=[[:Category:English|English]]
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  • ...o Ancient Greek and Latin works (often in their original language, with no English translation), as well as more recent classic authors such as Cervantes, Dan .... Wythe also believed that Roman law principles were sometimes superior to English legal precedent, and cautioned against blindly following England's caselaw.
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  • ...r student of Wythe's. Taylor compares Wythe's reasoning to that in similar English cases, finds Wythe equal or superior, and declares him "clarum et venerabil ...Law Repository, 465, delivering the opinion of the court, says: "To these [English] cases may be added a decision made by the late Chancellor Wythe, in Virgin
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  • ...ate. it is said that while reading the Greek testament, his mother held an English one to aid him in rendering the Greek text conformably with that. he also a
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  • Through an anecdote about an English chancellor who declared it was his duty to protect individuals against gove
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  • ...fferson mentions that he has heard that a French frigate has captured some English vessels near Delaware and since America had decided to stay neutral in the ...ill not receive. — we understand that a French frigate has taken several English vessels off the capes of Delaware, within two or three days after they had
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  • ...er to [[George Wythe| Wythe]], Jefferson mentions it being translated into English. Jefferson tells Wythe that he will send him a copy. Wythe had written Je ...ence, has contributed much to convince the people of Europe, that what the English papers are constantly publishing of our anarchy, is false; as they are sens
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  • ...principles of American government, and how American law diverged from the English common law described by Blackstone.<ref>Ibid., 169.</ref> The notes from th
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  • ...The first story was that Dumouriez went to the Austrians according to an English paper; however, Jefferson said that Dumouriez's own reputation opposed this ...t DuMourier is gone over to the Austrians, the credit of this stands on an English paper only. it is opposed (not by the virtue of the man; he has none, but)
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  • ...their original for my own satisfaction; but I have added Latin, or literal English translation from the time of Canute to that of the Magna charta, you know,
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...the rising jurisdiction of the Chancellor."<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', V:12; Sweet & Maxwell, ''Bibliography of the British Commonwealth''
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  • ...erted that, contrary to Wythe's statements and reasoning, the vast body of English case law supported the conclusion that crops growing on the land should pas ...as Coke and Plowden, were published in French and later translated for the English-speaking world. The thoroughness of Jefferson's reading of the law impresse
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...|John Locke]] (1632 &ndash; 1704) was an English philosopher born into low English gentry. He attended the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_School We
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  • |lang=[[:Category: English|English]] ...rity."<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography, or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch Law Books'', (T. & J. W. Johnson, Lawbook Sellers, 1847),
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...also notes their "good reputation."<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:139.</ref>
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...s a master of the "old philosophy."<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:192.</ref> Ballo
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  • |lang=[[:Category: English|English]] ...ne doubts the attribution to Bacon.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:169.</ref> The
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...ebrated, widely circulated, and influential law book ever published in the English Language."<ref>Wilfrid Prest, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2536
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]], [[:Category:French|French]] and [[:Category:Latin|Latin]] ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinerian_Professor_of_English_Law Vinerian Professor of English Law], is perhaps best known as the author of ''[[Commentaries on the Laws o
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  • ...ts foundation in the Roman law even as it articulated something distinctly English.<ref>Boothman, "Henry de Bracton."</ref> Given the dates of some of the cas [[Category:English Law]]
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  • ...Sources of the Law of England: An Historical Introduction to the Study of English Law'', trans. W. Hastie (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1888), 29.</ref> ...ersion in which it has survived, because this third full-scale treatise on English law to survive (along with Bracton and [[wikipedia:Fleta|Fleta]]) from the
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  • ...'Nomotexnia'', "a brief but ambitious treatise which sought to systematize English common law."<ref>Ibid.</ref> .... The work continued Finch's efforts to clarify and provide an overview of English common law.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Finch died of the plague in [http://en.wikipedi
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  • ...shed in 1289, but "it was never much read."<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law,'' 321-322.</ref> [[Category:English Law]]
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  • ...of common law. During this time, Noy joined others in an attempt to review English statutory law. In 1621 Noy became a leading figure in Parliament, and from ...n 1817.<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Books
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  • ...n as ''Registrum Brevium''."<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925), 298.</ref> Loo ...1311),<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Books
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...of Custom," 130.</ref> The format was a dialogue between a "Student of the English common law" and a "Doctor of Theology," in which they discussed the common
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...lished.<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Books
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  • ...edia.org/wiki/Hubert_Walter Hubert Walter].<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law,'' 189.</ref> Regardless of the authorship, the volume "will not cease [[Category:English Law]]
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...beginning of the eighteenth century."<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924), 4:119.</ref>
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...tion in 1689, ''Lois Civiles dans leur Ordre Naturel'' was translated into English in 1722 as ''Civil Law in the Natural Order''. The title influenced civil l
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...ancellor of the diocese of Lincoln.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:644.</ref>
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  • |lang=[[:Category:Latin|Latin]] with occasional [[:Category:English|English]] notes ...e edition of Brownlow's Forms."<ref>W. Harold Maxwell, ''A Bibliography of English Law to 1650, Including Books Dealing with that Period, Printed from 1480 to
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  • |lang=Prefaces in [[:Category:Latin|Latin]] and [[:Category:English|English]]; text in Latin; index in [[:Category:French|French]]. ...case]]. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...es back to as early as 1510.<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925), 303-304.</ref>
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...|Court of Common Pleas]] in England followed in 1621 and a transfer to the English [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (England)|King's Bench]] in 1624.<ref>Chr
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] with some [[:Category:Latin|Latin]] and [[:Category:French|Law French]] ...case]]. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...d English) and multiple editions. The Wolf Law Library purchased the first English edition as listed in Dean's memo.
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...oke]] (1552 &ndash; 1634) in an attempt to provide an exhaustive review of English law. Born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, Coke was arguably the mo
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...erbert] (1470-1538), an English judge, scholar, and "one of the best-known English legal writers of the sixteenth century."<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxfo
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...holarly of all the reports of this period."<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law,'' 135.</ref> He later expounds "[t]hey are remarkable in form because
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...ly appeared in 1736.<ref>Ibid, 420.</ref> It became "the main authority on English criminal law for a century thereafter" and "provides the structure of Black
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...in both analysis and in detail when compared to the earlier exposition of English criminal law written by [[wikipedia:Edward Coke|Sir Edward Coke]] (1552 &nd
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...ifteen editions in Burn's lifetime.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:333.</ref>
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  • ...Equity'' (1760) represented the first detailed, written study of equity in English,<ref>Daniel James Carr, "An Iron Mind in an Iron Body: Lord Kames and His P ...to [[Dabney Carr]]. Two folio editions of this title were published.<ref>''English Short Title Catalog'', http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Principles of Equity a
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  • |edition=Third English edition |lang=[[:Category:English|English]]
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...glish." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1710 (second edition) English translation of ''De Jure Naturae et Gentium Libri Octo'' to represent this
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...tion.'"<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Books
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  • ...Scottish writers... but also had an impact on English legal writers and on English understanding of the history of the common law."<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...xchequer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was later appointed to the commission for the English Great Seal and knighted.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Shortly before Gilbert's death he
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...xchequer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was later appointed to the commission for the English Great Seal and knighted.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Shortly before Gilbert's death he
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...d 1728, both "second" editions.<ref>Leslie F. Maxwell, ''A Bibliography of English Law from 1651 to 1800'' (''Sweet & Maxwell's Complete Law Book Catalogue'',
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...tles and allow for more clarity and deeper study.<ref>J. H. Baker, "Famous English Canon Lawyers: V," ''Ecclesiastical Law Journal'' 3, no. 12 (1993): 5-9.</r
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] This work is a collection of the ''Odes of Anacreon'', translated into English by Thomas Moore and also annotated to provide clarity and additional classi
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...ge in his plays.<ref>Samuel Johnson “The Life of Dryden," ''Lives of the English Poets'', ed. G.B. Hill (Clarendon Press, 1905), as transcribed by [http://a
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  • |lang=[[:Category: English| English]] ...ther’s death in 1799, Mathias published numerous Italian translations of English poems in a perfect mastery of the written language,<ref>Anonymous, “Obitu
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  • |lang=[[:Category: English| English]] ...is canonical epic poem, ''Paradise Lost'', Milton began to write poetry in English and Latin at Cambridge in 1625.<ref>Gordon Campbell, [http://www.oxforddnb.
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  • |lang=[[:Category: English| English]] ...is canonical epic poem, ''Paradise Lost'', Milton began to write poetry in English and Latin at Cambridge in 1625.<ref>Gordon Campbell, [http://www.oxforddnb.
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...w.oed.com/view/Entry/157008#eid27221738 “Rabelaisian, adj.,”] ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (OED Third Edition, June 2008), accessed October 28, 2013.</re
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  • |lang=[[Category: English| English]] ...s sometime between 1585 and 1592. He began his career as a playwright with English histories, such as ''Henry VI'', comedies, like ''The Taming of the Shrew''
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...o volumes into one. It was translated from the original Ancient Greek into English by Thomas Francklin, a fellow of Trinity College and a Greek professor at t
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  • |lang=[[:Category: English| English]] ...continued to write poetry and critical essays, and rose in both Irish and English intellectual circles until his defense of the Oxford–Bolingbroke ministry
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...bott, “Dr. Johnson and Francis Fawkes’s Theocritus,” ''The Review of English Studies'' 21, no. 82 (Apr. 1945): 142).</ref> Fawkes’ translation is nota
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...n's translation of the ''Georgics'' led to a surge in its popularity among English speakers in the eighteenth century, inspiring many romantic ideas about rur
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  • ...Cambridge, and archdeacon of Essex.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:643.</ref> Ruthe
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...> Without reference to precedent in American courts, judges had to rely on English common law, the authority of which was questionable in the United States,<r
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  • |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] ...onial America, Giles’ ''Law Dictionary'' was one of the most widely read English legal dictionaries and often found in the libraries of distinguished coloni
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