The Report of Several Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster: From the First Year of King James the Second, to the Tenth Year of King William the Third
by Roger Comberbach
| Comberbach's Reports | |
 Title page from The Report of Several Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Roger Comberbach |
| Published | [London], In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for J. Walthoe |
| Date | 1724 |
| Edition | First |
| Language | English |
| Pages | [12], 484, [52] |
| Desc. | Folio (32 cm.) |
| Location | Shelf F-5 |
Roger Comberbach served as recorder of Chester and a judge of North Wales.[1] Like many other reports of his time, Comberbach's reports were almost universally disparaged.[2] Wallace sums up the work as "[a] posthumous note-book, published by the author's son, and therefore, perhaps, as filial editorships generally go, more pardonable for its worthlessness."[3]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Brown's Bibliography[4] includes the 1st (1724) edition Comberbach's Reports based on quotations in the manuscript copy of John Marshall's law notes. The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and moved a copy of this edition from another rare book collection to the George Wythe Collection.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Rebound in period style. Spine features four bands and blue gilt labels. Signed "R. Scudmore" on the title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.
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Full text
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See also
References
- ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:558.
- ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 396.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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.
