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The First Book on Forensic Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence
Published in the United States
1. Cooper, Thomas, Editor.
Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence: Including [Samuel]
Farr’s Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, [William]
Dease’s Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence, [G.E.]
Male’s Epitome of Juridical or Forensic Medicine, and [John]
Haslam’s Treatise on Insanity. With a Preface, Notes, and a Digest
of the Law Relating to Insanity and Nuisance. To Which is Added an
Appendix, Containing Erskine’s Speech for James Hadfield, Indicted
for Shooting at the King; An Abstract of a Report of the Trial of
Abraham Kessler, Indicted for Poisoning his Wife With White Arsenic,
and Laudanum, and a
Memoir on the
Chromat of Pot-Ash, as a Test for Detecting Arsenic, Copper, and
Corrosive Sublimate, by Thomas Cooper, Esq., Read Before the Am[erican]
Ph[ilosophical] Society, Sep. 18, 1818.
Philadelphia: Published by James Webster, 1819. [xvi], 456, [1] pp.
Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Reprint of the first work on forensic medicine and medical
jurisprudence published in the United States. The most extensive
work of its kind then available in America, it includes the first
domestic printing of Haslam’s landmark Treatise on Insanity (1817).
Other topics treated at length include rape, abortion and poisoning.
Cooper [1759-1839], a chemist and lawyer by training, was a polymath
who published books on law, political science, economics, medicine
and the natural sciences. A friend of Joseph Priestley and Thomas
Jefferson, he was a professor of chemistry at Dickinson College and
the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty of South
Carolina College in 1819 and became its president in 1820.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-681-9
ISBN-10: 1-58477-681-1 Item # 43969 [xvi], 456, [1] pp. Cloth
January 2007 $125.  
Fascinating Study of Virginia’s Colonial Government
2. Miller, Elmer I.
The Legislature of the
Province of Virginia: Its Internal Development.
New York: The Columbia University Press, 1907. 182 pp. Reprinted
2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Miller offers a fascinating case that “the Virginia colony was a
good illustration of the vigorous assertion of the Anglo-Saxon
spirit of self-rule and adaptation to environment” (175). Tracing
the evolution of the colony from its first colonial charters to the
outset of the Revolution, this work is notable both for its breadth
of sources and its quaint, if altogether too common, nod to the
Social Darwinist influences then so evident in the academy.
Originally published in the series Studies in History, Economics and
Public Law published by the Political Science faculty of Columbia
University.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-504-1
ISBN-10: 1-58477-504-1 Item # 40867 182 pp. Cloth January 2007
$70.
Important English Treatise on Copyright Law
3. Scrutton, Thomas Edward, Sir.
The Law of Copyright. London: W. Clowes, 1903. xxv, 331 pp.
Reprint available January 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
* Reprint of the fourth and final edition. Written in a clear and
engaging manner, this is both a treatise on copyright law in the
British commonwealth (as it stood in 1903) and a sharp analysis of
its shortcomings. It was the standard treatise of the day. Beginning
with a history of English copyright law, Scrutton considers the
author’s rights at common law, lectures, oral and printed
communications, such as plays, musical copyright, literary copyright
in books, artistic copyright, colonial copyright and international
copyright.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-639-0
ISBN-10: 1-58477-639-0 Item # 43915 xxv, 331 pp. Cloth January
2007 $90.
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