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SIR CODRINGTON EDMUND CARRINGTON (1769-1849)
The Charter, or Letters Patent, Establishing the Supreme Court of Judicature in the Island of Ceylon, and the High Court of Appeal in the Said Island. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strachan, 1801. 2° (318 x 196mm). Half-title and errata leaf. Interleaved. (Lightly spotted.) Contemporary English straight-grained red roan gilt [endpapers and interleaves watermarked '1800'], boards panelled with gilt rolls, borders of gilt rolls and rules, roll-tooled gilt board-edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, titled in one (lightly scuffed, spine a little darkened, small marks on lower board, corners lightly bumped). Provenance: Sir Codrington Edmond Carrington (1769-1849, bookplate on upper pastedown and ownership signature on flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION. AN INTERLEAVED AND INDEXED COPY OF THE CHARTER FROM THE LIBRARY OF CARRINGTON, THE CHARTER'S FRAMER AND THE FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT. Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1792, in which year he travelled to India, where he was admitted as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Judicature (sometimes acting as junior counsel for the East India Company), and befriended Sir William Jones. In 1799 Carrington drew up a legal code for Ceylon and made a series of recommendations for judicial reform at the behest of Frederick North, the Governor, before illness prompted him to resign and return to England later in the year. In England he worked on further reforms of the judicature -- enacted in the present Charter -- and was appointed the first holder of the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in 1801. He returned to Ceylon in 1802 and remained there until 1805, when ill-health forced him to return to England again. Carrington's copy appears to have been interleaved and bound for him at the time of publication, and contains four manuscript transcriptions of extracts from the Governor's Commission of 1801 (which is referred to in the text) on the interleaves and a 13-page manuscript index of the volume at the end.
The Charter, or Letters Patent, Establishing the Supreme Court of Judicature in the Island of Ceylon, and the High Court of Appeal in the Said Island. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strachan, 1801. 2° (318 x 196mm). Half-title and errata leaf. Interleaved. (Lightly spotted.) Contemporary English straight-grained red roan gilt [endpapers and interleaves watermarked '1800'], boards panelled with gilt rolls, borders of gilt rolls and rules, roll-tooled gilt board-edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, titled in one (lightly scuffed, spine a little darkened, small marks on lower board, corners lightly bumped). Provenance: Sir Codrington Edmond Carrington (1769-1849, bookplate on upper pastedown and ownership signature on flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION. AN INTERLEAVED AND INDEXED COPY OF THE CHARTER FROM THE LIBRARY OF CARRINGTON, THE CHARTER'S FRAMER AND THE FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT. Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1792, in which year he travelled to India, where he was admitted as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Judicature (sometimes acting as junior counsel for the East India Company), and befriended Sir William Jones. In 1799 Carrington drew up a legal code for Ceylon and made a series of recommendations for judicial reform at the behest of Frederick North, the Governor, before illness prompted him to resign and return to England later in the year. In England he worked on further reforms of the judicature -- enacted in the present Charter -- and was appointed the first holder of the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in 1801. He returned to Ceylon in 1802 and remained there until 1805, when ill-health forced him to return to England again. Carrington's copy appears to have been interleaved and bound for him at the time of publication, and contains four manuscript transcriptions of extracts from the Governor's Commission of 1801 (which is referred to in the text) on the interleaves and a 13-page manuscript index of the volume at the end.
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