Commentaries on Equity Pleadings, And the Incidents Thereof....
One of the First Comprehensive Treatments of Equity Pleading, A Work Lincoln Recommended and Assigned to His Apprentices Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on Equity Pleadings, And the Incidents Thereof, According to the Practice of the Courts of Equity, Of England and America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1852. xxxii, 991 pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"; 24.1 x 15.2 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind frames to boards, blind fillets, lettering piece and small owner label, "J.G. Pressley" to spine. Moderate wear to boards and extremities, gatoring to spine, joints cracked but secure. Moderate toning to interior, "Examined 11 May [1854?]/ Conn. to practice Law dated [1st of?] June [1854?]/ Examined before the court of appeals by the spe-/cial indulgence obtained through the influ-/ence of Judges J.B. O'neal & R. M[uir?] under-/age by" to front pastedown, signature of John G. Pressley dated 1854 to front free endpaper, some marks in pencil to rear endleaves. A good copy. $500. * Fifth edition. This foundational text was first published in 1838 and was established almost immediately as a standard work in the United States and Great Britain. It was one of the five treatises Abraham Lincoln recommended to aspiring lawyers and assigned to his apprentices. The final edition (the thirteenth) was issued in 1886. Roscoe Pound lists it among the treatises "which went far to shape the law" during the nineteenth century. The fifth edition is notable because it was published shortly after the adoption of the Federal Equity Rules (which were codified in the late 19th century). Both a descriptive and prescriptive edition, it helped shape how judges, lawyers and legal scholars understood its effects. Our copy was owned by John Gotea Pressley [1833-1895], a South Carolina native who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army. After the war, he moved to California, where he became a disctinguished lawyer and judge. John Belton O'Neall [1793-1863] was an American judge who served on the precursor to the South Carolina Supreme Court. He is remembered as the author of The Negro Law of South Carolina. Pound, The Formative Era of American Law 140-141. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 5026.
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