Research Catalog

Title

Legal papers of John Adams. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, editors.

Author

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Publication

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Wroth, L. Kinvin
• Zobel, Hiller B.

Description

3 v. illus., facsims., map, plan, ports.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Adams papers. Series III, General correspondence and other papers of the Adams statesmen

Uniform Title

Adams papers. Series III, General correspondence and other papers of the Adams statesmen

Subject

• Adams, John, 1735-1826
• 1770
• Law > United States > Cases

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Vol. 1. Introduction, Cases 1-30 -- v. 2. Cases 31-62 -- v. 3. Cases 63-64, Index.
• Volume 1. Foreword by the Honorable Bruce Bromley -- Descriptive list of illustrations -- Preface by the Editor in Chief -- Introduction by the Editors -- The Massachusetts Bench and Bar: a Biographical Register of John Adams' Contemporaries -- Acknowledgments -- Guide to Editorial Apparatus -- Law Study -- Adams' Pleadings Book -- Torts. Bassett v. Mayhew; Mayhew v. Bassett; Mayhew v. Allen, 1762-1768 ; King v. Stewart, 1773-1774 ; Cotton v. Nye, 1767 ; Burnam v. Mugford, 1770-1771 ; Gill v. Mein, 1768-1769 -- Gray v. Pitts, 1771 -- Contracts. Porter v. Steel, 1770-1772 -- Commercial Law. Alcock v. Warden, 1766 ; Apthorp v. Gardiner, 1766-1768 ; Bancroft v. Lee, 1768-1772 ; Crowningshield v. Lee, 1768-1770 ; Longman v. Mein; Wright & Gill v. Mein, 1770-1771 -- Property. Prout v. Minot, 1761-1766 ; Keen v. Turner, 1768-1769 ; Clap's Will, 1767-1768 ; Clap v. Randall, 1769 ; Hill v. Whiting, 1770-1772 ; Prescott v. Keep, 1771-1776 ; Prescott v. Priest, 1771-1773 ; Wilkins v. Fuller, 1776-1772 ; Smith v. Fuller, 1770-1778 -- Domestic Relations. Broadstreet v. Broadstreet, 1771-1774 ; Dougherty v. Little, 1768 -- Administrative Law. Roxbury v. Boston, 1766 ; Plympton v. Middleboro, 1766 -- Chelsea v. Boston, 1769 ; Brookline v. Roxbury, 1767-1772 ; Essane v. Dotey, 1767-1768 ; Gage v. Headley, 1768 ; Josselyne v. Harrington, 1769-1771.
• Volume 2. Descriptive List of Illustrations -- Town Government. Pingry v. Thurston, 1768-1771 ; Patch v. Herrick, 1771-1772 ; Emmons v. Brewer, 1772 -- Conservation. Wadsworth v. Loring, 1766-1768 ; Winslow v. Clark, 1767 -- Religion. Pierce v. Wright, 1768-1769 ; Green v. Washburn, 1769 -- Slavery. Slew v. Whipple, 1766 ; Newport v. Billing, 1768 ; Margaret v. Muzzy, 1768-1770 ; Caesar v. Taylor, 1771-1772 ; Caesar v. Greenleaf, 1773 -- Admiralty-Civil Jursidiction. Doane v. Gage, 1766-1769 -- Admiralty-Revenue Jurisdiction. Petition of Lechmere (Argument on Writs of Assistance), 1761 ; Folger v. Sloop Cornelia, 1768 ; Sewall v. Hancock, 1768-1769 ; Dowse v. Thirty-three Hogsheads of Molasses, 1768-1769 ; Sheaffe v. The Triton, 1768 ; Dowse v. Nineteen Casks of Molasses, 1768 ; Butler v. The Union, 1769 ; Dawson v. The Jenny, 1773 -- Admiralty-White PIne Acts Jurisdiction. Surveyor General v. Logs, 1769 ; Surveyor General v. Logs, Kennebec Company, Claimant, 1772-1773 -- Admiralty-Criminal Jurisdiction. Rex v. Corbet, 1769 ; Rex v. Nickerson, 1772-1773 -- Admiralty-Prize Jurisdiction. Penhallow v. The Lusanna, 1777-1795 -- Criminal Law. Rex v. Richardson, 1770-1772 ; Rex v. Ross, 1769-1770 ; Rex v. Moyse and Reader, 1769 ; Rex v. Bell, 1773.
• Volume 3. Descriptive List of Illustrations -- Criminal Law, Continued. The Boston Massacre Trials. Rex v. Preston, 1770 ; Rex v. Wemms, 1770 -- List of Streets, Buildings, and Other Landmarks Mentioned in the Boston Massacre Trials -- Chronology: John Adams' Legal Career, 1756-1778 -- Table of Statutes -- Index.

LCCN

^^^65013855^

OCLC

• 1034247
• SCSB-10377705

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library