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• Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language
  {{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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• English Works of Sir Henry Spelman
  {{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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• English Works of Sir Henry Spelman (Contents)
  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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• George Wythe
  ...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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• Wythe's Library
  ...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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• George Wythe Collection
  ...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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• Known Surviving Wythe Volumes
  ...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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• Memoirs of the Late George Wythe, Esquire
  ...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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• George Wythe's bookplate
  ...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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• Genesis and Birth of the Federal Constitution
  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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• Blackstone's Commentaries
  |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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• Reports of Sir Edward Coke
  {{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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• Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery
  |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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• Wythe's Judicial Career
  ...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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• Advertisement for Wythe's Virginia Reports
  ...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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• Notes for the Biography of George Wythe
  ...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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• Commonwealth v. Caton
  Through an anecdote about an English chancellor who declared it was his duty to protect individuals against gove
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• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 27 April 1793
  ...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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• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 13 August 1786
  ...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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• St. George Tucker
  ...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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• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 26 May 1793
  ...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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• Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 1 November 1778
  ...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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• Orphan's Legacy
  |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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• Bolling v. Bolling
  ...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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• Works of Flavius Josephus
  |lang=[[:Category:English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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• Works of John Locke
  |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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• Eight Centuries of Reports
  |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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• Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
  |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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• Treatise of Equity
  |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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• Chronology and History of the World
  |lang=[[:Category: English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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• Interest of Great Britain Considered
  |lang=[[:Category: English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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• Life of George Washington
  |lang=[[:Category: English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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• History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
  |lang=[[:Category: English|English]] [[Category:English]]
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• New Abridgment of the Law
  |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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• Commentaries on the Laws of England
  |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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• Law Tracts
  |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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• De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
  ...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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• Britton
  ...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
  ...'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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• Fleta
  ...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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• Historical Law-Tracts
  [[Category:English Law]]
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• Treatise of the Principal Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes
  ...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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• Registrum Brevium
  ...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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• Doctor and Student
  |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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• Maximes of Reason
  |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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• Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae
  ...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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• Officium Vicecomitum
  |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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• Civil Law in its Natural Order
  |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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• Elements of the Civil Law
  |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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• Brownlow Latine Redivivus
  |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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• Book of Entries
  |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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• Beau-Pledeur
  |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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• New Precedents in Conveyancing
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