Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
Description:
In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Script: English book hands., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., and Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. and Taussig, Anthony.
James Booth, Jr., while a student at the Litchfield Law School from 1810-1811, recorded lectures given by James Gould and Tapping Reeve. The first volume covers lectures given by both on a variety of topics including: "Sheriffs and jailors," "Inns and innkeepers," "Contracts," "Of torts and first of slander," "Of alienation by deed," and "Of Injuries to things real and first of trespass." The second volume records a series of lectures given by Gould on "Pleas and pleading."
Alternative Title:
Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve and James Gould at the Litchfield Law School taken in 1810 and 1811 by James Booth and Litchfield Law School notebooks
Description:
Lecture notes from classes of Tapping Reeve and James Gould at the Litchfield Law School, 1810-1811., Title transcribed from later volume [2], dated Sept. 1811; volumes are not expressly numbered. , Title page for second volume decorated with ornate calligraphy., Also available in original print https://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/10hr773/ALMA-BC21322446420001021, Digital reproduction. Boston, Massachusetts : Boston College Law Library, 2021., and Description based on print version record.
Publisher:
James Booth
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut., Connecticut, and Litchfield.
Subject (Name):
Litchfield Law School
Subject (Topic):
Students, Law, Study and teaching, and Law students
James Booth, Jr., while a student at the Litchfield Law School from 1810-1811, recorded lectures given by James Gould and Tapping Reeve. The first volume covers lectures given by both on a variety of topics including: "Sheriffs and jailors," "Inns and innkeepers," "Contracts," "Of torts and first of slander," "Of alienation by deed," and "Of Injuries to things real and first of trespass." The second volume records a series of lectures given by Gould on "Pleas and pleading."
Alternative Title:
Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve and James Gould at the Litchfield Law School taken in 1810 and 1811 by James Booth and Litchfield Law School notebooks
Description:
Lecture notes from classes of Tapping Reeve and James Gould at the Litchfield Law School, 1810-1811., Title transcribed from later volume [2], dated Sept. 1811; volumes are not expressly numbered. , Title page for second volume decorated with ornate calligraphy., Also available in original print https://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/10hr773/ALMA-BC21322446420001021, Digital reproduction. Boston, Massachusetts : Boston College Law Library, 2021., and Description based on print version record.
Publisher:
James Booth
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut., Connecticut, and Litchfield.
Subject (Name):
Litchfield Law School
Subject (Topic):
Students, Law, Study and teaching, and Law students
MS 1211, Box 4, Folder: 6 MS 1211, Box 5, Folder: 7
Container / Volume:
1
Image Count:
533
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Manuscript notes of lectures by James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken 1815-1816, by Roger Skinner
Description:
Also available in original print https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/archival_objects/1198911, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives, 2021. MS 1211, Box 4, Folder: 6, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives, 2021. MS 1211, Box 5, Folder: 7, Description based on print finding aid. , and Digitization in progress. Online content available soon.
Publisher:
Roger Skinner
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut., Connecticut, and Litchfield.
Subject (Name):
Litchfield Law School
Subject (Topic):
Students, Law, Study and teaching, and Law students
MS 1211, Box 4, Folder: 6 MS 1211, Box 5, Folder: 7
Container / Volume:
2
Image Count:
465
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Manuscript notes of lectures by James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken 1815-1816, by Roger Skinner
Description:
Also available in original print https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/archival_objects/1198911, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives, 2021. MS 1211, Box 4, Folder: 6, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives, 2021. MS 1211, Box 5, Folder: 7, Description based on print finding aid. , and Digitization in progress. Online content available soon.
Publisher:
Roger Skinner
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut., Connecticut, and Litchfield.
Subject (Name):
Litchfield Law School
Subject (Topic):
Students, Law, Study and teaching, and Law students
Postcard portrays a young girl embodying Lady Justice, seated in a chair, holding a scale in her right hand and a sword in her left
Alternative Title:
Themis, Déesse de la justice, Déesse de la justice, Postcard depicting a girl as Lady Justice seated in a chair, and Legally themed postcard depicting a girl as Lady Justice seated in a chair
Description:
Date from postmark and manuscript notes., Lillian Goldman Law Library's copy 1: addressed: Monsieur Ch Delbare ... Lille Nord; copy 2 addressed to [illegible] Lesper Cette Suzanne[?] and postmarked: Ceintrey, Meurthe et Moselle., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281770, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.14 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Lillian Goldman Law Library has 2 copies, each with manuscript notations.
Series of 10 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
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Postcards depicting a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice and Legally themed postcards a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Description:
Date from postmark., Some cards include manuscript notations., Card number 6 mentions Berenger, a reference to René Bérenger, a French lawyer and politician who campaigned for public decency and virtue., Card number 8 mentions Magnaud, a reference to Paul Magnaud, a French judge., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281725, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.9 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Édition Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Ecole de Nancy (Group of artists), Bérenger, René, 1830-1915., and Magnaud, Paul, 1848-1926.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Mimes
Dog (Springer Spaniel) delivering a verdict in the courtroom
Alternative Title:
Postcard depicting dog posed as judge and Legally themed postcard depicting dog posed as judge
Description:
"Rotograph series" B1626., The Rotograph Co., a major printer and publisher of postcards, was active in New York City, 1904-1911., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281871, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.4 tall, and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Publisher:
Rotograph Co.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Law, Judges, Conduct of court proceedings, and English springer spaniels
Manuscript, on parchment, in several hands, containing copies of legal documents, many concluding with notarial signs. Two internal title pages. The first reads: "Recognoissances de noble Pierre de Salles. 1324. Quartrefois B. Recognoi.ces de Noble Bernard de Salles. 1350. Quatrefois C. Recog.ces de Mons.r L'arceuesque de Narbonne. Aux Noble Bernard de Salles. Et Scindic du Chappitre St. Estienne de Narbonne / 1350. Quatrefois D." The second reads: "Recognoissances de noble Jehan de Vidal Conseig.r de Salles. 1514 Quatrefois N."
Description:
In Latin., Manuscript waste used in two internal bindings., Spine titles read: R--ON- / DE / SALLES. 1324. / 1350. / 1439. / 1514, and Binding: 18th century? full patterned calf. Red leather spine tags.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Narbonne (France)
Subject (Name):
Salles, Bernard de., Salles family., Salles, Pierre de., and Vidal, Jehan de.
Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, and Manuscripts, Medieval
