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Edward Barradall's Reports Of Cases In The General Court Of Virginia (1733-1741), William Hamilton Bryson
Edward Barradall's Reports Of Cases In The General Court Of Virginia (1733-1741), William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Edward Barradall was born in London, the son of Henry Barradall and Catherine Blumfield Barradall. He was baptized on 17 October 1703 in the parish church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Both of his brothers and two of his sisters came to Virginia in the 1730s. Edward Barradall was in Virginia by February 1731. From at least then until about 1733, he practiced law in the county courts of Caroline County and the Northern Neck. His law reports begin in 1733, and so it is to be presumed that that is the year he moved his practice from the county …
Alexander Forrester's Chancery Reports, William Hamilton Bryson
Alexander Forrester's Chancery Reports, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
This is a new edition of Alexander Forrester's Chancery reports. It is based upon the best manuscript copy that has survived, Lincoln's Inn MSS. Misc. 52 and Misc. 54, and the first printed edition. The edition that was first published in 1741 included only the cases from 1732 to 1739. Compared to the copy in Lincoln's Inn, they are not much different in quality from each other. The cases in the 1741 edition are the basis for this edition as far as they go. The learned apparatus of the third edition by John Griffith Williams (d. 1799) has not been …
James Ravenscroft's Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Common Pleas (1623-1633), William Hamilton Bryson
James Ravenscroft's Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Common Pleas (1623-1633), William Hamilton Bryson
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James Ravenscroft was born in 1595, the son of Thomas Ravenscroft of Fould Park, Middlesex, and Bridget Powell. The Ravenscrofts were an ancient Flintshire family. (Thomas Ravenscroft (1563-1631) was a cousin of Lord Ellesmere's first wife, a member of Parliament in 1621, and a Cursitor in the Chancery.) James was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1613, and received his B.A. degree in 1616. He was admitted to the Inner Temple on 29 May 1617, and he was called to the bar on 21 May 1626. James was married to Mary Peck; they resided in High Holborn, and had eleven …