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Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Chancery In The Middle Ages, William Hamilton Bryson
Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Chancery In The Middle Ages, William Hamilton Bryson
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If the history of the law is to be properly written, it must be based upon the primary legal sources. One of the primary source materials of the law is the reports of cases. These are particularly important because here is the best evidence of the judges’ legal reasoning. The court records kept by the clerks of the courts do not give this information as, indeed, it is not their purpose to do any more than record the results of a particular lawsuit for future use. They primarily serve the purpose of res judicata; their value as judicial precedent …
Sir Robert Raymond's Common Law Reports (1694-1696), William Hamilton Bryson
Sir Robert Raymond's Common Law Reports (1694-1696), William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Robert Raymond was born on 20 December 1673 in London. He was the only son of Sir Thomas Raymond (1627-1683), a judge and law reporter. He was formally admitted to Gray's Inn, his father's inn, at the age of nine in 1682. He was a student at Eton College and Christ's College, Cambridge. Raymond was called to the bar of Gray's Inn in November 1697, and he joined ad eundem Lincoln's Inn in 1710. He was the Solicitor General from 1710 until 1714 and Attorney General from 1720 to 1724. He was a member of Parliament from 1710 to 1724. …