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[STORY, Joseph]. Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Charles I and to the 20th Year of King Charles II. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for John Walthoe, 1693.
8°. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked. Provenance: Joseph Story (1779-1845), Justice of the Supreme Court, 1811-1845; Man[uel?] Kendall (signature on title-page); William L. Clements Library of American History (withdrawn stamp, on rear pastedown).
JUSTICE STORY’S COPY of this legal treatise, establishing the importance of judicial precedents for cases in equity. Story’s own 1833 work, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, would be the leading authority on the Constitution among scholars and jurists until the New Deal.
8°. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked. Provenance: Joseph Story (1779-1845), Justice of the Supreme Court, 1811-1845; Man[uel?] Kendall (signature on title-page); William L. Clements Library of American History (withdrawn stamp, on rear pastedown).
JUSTICE STORY’S COPY of this legal treatise, establishing the importance of judicial precedents for cases in equity. Story’s own 1833 work, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, would be the leading authority on the Constitution among scholars and jurists until the New Deal.