Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina..
Biographical Sketches of the Antebellum Bar of South Carolina O'Neall, John Belton. Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina. To Which is Added, The Original Fee Bill of 1791, With the Signatures in Fac-Simile, The Rolls of Attorneys Admitted to Practice, From the Records at Charleston and Columbia. Etc., Etc. Charleston: S.G. Courtenay & Co., 1859. Two volumes. Folding table. Plates of facsimile signatures. Octavo (9" x 6"). Recent cloth, lettering pieces to spine. Light toning to text, faint dampstaining to head of text block in parts of Volume II, careful repair to tear in folding table, Early owner signature to title page of each volume, interior otherwise clean. $450. * Only edition. With a list of various judicial officers dating back to 1698. Early bar histories are valuable sources of first-hand information that are not available in other sources. In addition to archival material, Judge O'Neall, a senior member of South Carolina's bench and bar, drew heavily on interviews, personal memory and interviews with relative and descendants. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2198.
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