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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
Law Faculty Publications
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 …
Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Exchequer In The Middle Ages (1295-1496), William Hamilton Bryson
Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Exchequer In The Middle Ages (1295-1496), William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
The basic and original jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer, which was a part of the royal Treasury, was to decide legal disputes over the revenues of the king and the Kingdom of England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick. The substance of this jurisdiction was the financial rights of the crown according to the common law of England and the equity thereof. The Court of Exchequer also decided legal disputes between private parties where one of the parties was an officer of the court, an accountant to the crown who was under the active jurisdiction of the court in …
Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Exchequer From 1604 To 1648, William Hamilton Bryson
Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Exchequer From 1604 To 1648, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Before the year 2000, there were in print only two modest collections of reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer dating before the accession of King George I in 1714. These are the reports of Sir Richard Lane (d. 1650) and those of Thomas Hardres (d. 1681). Combined, they cover only 28 years, and the number of cases is quite minuscule compared to the other high courts of justice at Westminster. This extreme paucity of printed materials has given a false impression of unimportance of the Court of Exchequer. While it is certainly true that this court did not …
The Merger Of Common-Law And Equity Pleading In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
The Merger Of Common-Law And Equity Pleading In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
This article describes the separation of common law and equity in Virginia leading up to the 2006 merger of common law and equity pleading and the problems that remain to be solved by the courts.
The Equity Side Of The Exchequer, William Hamilton Bryson
The Equity Side Of The Exchequer, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
The purpose of this book is to place the equity side of the exchequer into its historical, institutional, and legal perspective. It is to discover its administrative procedures arid to determine how far its judicial procedures in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the same as those of the other courts of equity. It is to produce an outline of the procedures and an introduction to the records of the jurisdiction for those who may wish to work in the same field but to dig deeper.
A Letter Of Lewis Burwell To James Burrough, July 8, 1734, William Hamilton Bryson
A Letter Of Lewis Burwell To James Burrough, July 8, 1734, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Not long ago while rummaging through the record office in Bury St. Edmunds, I came across a letter 1 from Lewis Burwell (1710-1756) of Gloucester County, Virginia, to James Burrough (1691-1764), his cousin and former tutor at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which sheds some light upon the Burwell family and the education of colonial Virginians in the mother country.