Series of 15 numbered scenes on 5 postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a child as an advocate addressing a court.
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child in legal attire addressing a court, Legally themed postcards depicting a child in legal attire addressing a court, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
Date from postmark., Scene number 15 does not include a caption. , On card number [2], scene number 6: Rappelez-vous Lesurques, refers to Joseph Lesurques a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281764, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.11 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Series of 6 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a French child as advocate
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child as advocate, Legally themed postcards depicting a child as advocate, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
All postcards include manuscript notations and addressed to "Mademoiselle Laure Wattenne, Forest. par Aseg[?]"on verso., Caption on card number 6, "... Rappelez-vous Lesurques ...," refers to a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796, Joseph Lesurques., Date from postmark and manuscript date, June 1902., In lower left corner: Collection G.I.D., Nantes., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281676, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.3 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Royer et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Wattenne, Laure, Aseg, and Lesurques, Joseph, 1763-1796.
Title from cover., Description based on print version record., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b147208, and Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2018. YL 05 L61 no.16 tall
Photographic postcard of the French Judge Paul Magnaud posed in legal attire, with medals on his chest.
Alternative Title:
Président Magnaud, Photographic postcard of Judge Paul Magnaud, and Legally themed postcard picturing Judge Paul Magnaud
Description:
Date from postmark., Postcard addressed to "Mademoiselle Marthe Petit."--Verso postcard., In French., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281726, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.10 tall., Online resource; description based on print version record. , Includes manuscript notation., and Paul Magnaud (born May 20, 1848 and died July 27, 1926) was a French magistrate and politician. He entered the judiciary in 1880 and became a judge in 1910 and then an adviser to the Paris Court of Appeal. He earned the nickname "good judge" by releasing Louise Ménard, a young single mother, who had stolen bread from a baker because she had not eaten for days. Judge Magnaud reimbursed the baker for the cost of the stolen bread.
Connecticut. County Court (New Haven County), issuing body.
Published / Created:
1794-1805.
Call Number:
MssB C7615 1794 tall
Image Count:
584
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Journal of cases heard by the city of New Haven Debtors Court from February 1794 to February 1805, preceded by an alphabetical name index of parties and attorneys. Among the attorneys are David Daggett, Seth Staples, and James Hillhouse
Alternative Title:
Manuscript journal of cases heard by the New Haven Debtors Court from February 1794 to February 1805
Description:
Manuscript in English. , Pages are numbered. , Index pages X and Z are blank. , Title from typed label on spine and front fly-leaf. , Cases kept in cursive script by the court clerk Dyer White. , Text on page 1 begins: At a City Court held at New Haven and in the city & county of New Haven on the second of February of 1794., Front and back covers gilt stamped with perhaps British royal coat of arms. , Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2023 MssB C7615 1794 tall, Description based on print record., and Hicks classification: MssB C7615 1794 tall.
Publisher:
Dyer White
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven County. , New Haven County., and New Haven County (Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
Court records, Courts, Debtor and creditor, and History
Postcard depicting a cat as judge and Legally themed postcard depicting cat as judge
Description:
Date from postmark., Card addressed: Master J. Lodie ... Cathays, Cardiff., In upper left corner: 10 645., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281843, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2019 LM Z Postcards v.1 no.1 tall., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Venice (Republic : To 1797), enacting jurisdiction.
Published / Created:
1569.
Call Number:
MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289
Image Count:
218
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. , Numbering: [1] blank leaf, [1], [1]-160, [1] pages, [16] blank leaves, [24] pages. , Manuscript on vellum. , Binding: volume bound in white vellum over boards. , Contains an index at the end., Illuminated page begins on [1], 3rd group of paging, opposite of page 2. , Text on the first page within decorated border and initials in gold and colors, with the emblems of Venice and Soranzos' coat of arms, unfinished. Capitals and titles in text in red, all edges in gilt., Illuminated first page begins: "MDLXIX. Ivro ego Ioanes Svperantivs Eqves Consiliarivs Venetiarum Sexterij Sancti Pauli ad avangelia sancta Dei, quod donec ero Consiliarius,...", This decorated manuscript, known as a Giuramento, contains the oath of the government-appointed counselor of the sestiere (district) of San Polo in Venice. In 1569, the Venetian patrician Giovanni Soranzo held this position, and he commissioned this illuminated legal document, the first page of which includes his name in large golden letters; his patron saint, John the Baptist, in the upper left corner; and his coat of arms in the lower margin. A Giuramento was issued to all six counselors of Venice and included a description of the doge's responsibilities. Counselors were members of the Collegio, the government’s highest executive committee. Two years before his appointment as counselor, Soranzo had served as the Venetian governor of Bergamo, in northern Italy., Volume inscribed by Giovanni Soranzo on the page (page [1], 2nd group of paging) preceding the illuminated page about his reelection as counselor in April of 1574. It appears that this manuscript was his personal copy, which bears his name in the illuminated page with the date 1569. , Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b451624, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2019. MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289, Description based on print version record. , and Written in humanistic cursive in Latin and Italian.
Publisher:
producer not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Venice, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Loyalty oaths, Law, City councils, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Italian
Series of three postcards, with narrative captions. Children as advocate and plaintiff, the plaintiff, the victim, of a broken engagement
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting children as legal counsel and plaintiff and Legally themed postcards depicting children as legal counsel and plaintiff
Description:
In lower left corner: AL 5006, AL 5007, AL 5009., On verso: "Printed in Germany. AL series.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281632, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2020. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.6 tall, Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Aristophot was formed in Leipzig, Germany, around 1900 and subsequently opened a branch in London.
Publisher:
Aristophot Co. Ltd and Aristophot Co. Ltd.?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Courtship
Manuscript daybook in Barzillai Slosson's handwriting documents payments made to him or by him to town residents for both his legal work and purchases he made. It identifies clients, services rendered, goods purchased, and charges for those services and purchases in Kent, Connecticut, covering the period from July 7, 1809, to December 9, 1812. Additionally, Slosson recorded in the account book that people used his law books in his office to study law
Alternative Title:
Barzillai Slosson daybook, 1809 July 7-1812 December 6
Description:
Manuscript written in black ink in 19th-century handwriting., Dates based on internally recorded dates., Title devised by cataloger., On front pastedown: "Daniel J. Baswell began to read law in my office April 17, 1811." Another note reads: "Mr. Sylvester Johnson began to use law the second time in my office June 18, 1811.", Several pages are badly mutilated, and many are completely destroyed at the beginning and end of the book., Yale Law Library's label inside book: "Presented to the Yale Law Library by Mr. Otto J. Leonhard of Kent, 1936.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b258893~S1, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, MssA Sl55 no.4 flat, Description based on print version record., Hicks classification: MssA Sl55 no.4 flat., and Barzillai Slosson (1769-1813), a Yale College graduate of 1791, was an attorney from Kent, Connecticut, who also served as a clerk for the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Publisher:
Barzillai Slosson
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Kent, Kent., Kent (Conn.), and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Lawyers, Accounting, Practice of law, Account books, Law offices, Law, Study and teaching, Business records, History, Fees, and Manuscripts, American
