| Description |
3 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The Adams papers. Series III, General correspondence and other papers of the Adams statesmen |
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Adams papers. Series III, General correspondence and other papers of the Adams statesmen.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1. Introduction, Cases 1-30 -- v. 2. Cases 31-62 -- v. 3. Cases 63-64, Index. |
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Volume 1. Foreword by the Honorable Bruce Bromley -- Descriptive list of illustrations -- Preface by the Editor in Chief -- Introduction by the Editors -- The Massachusetts Bench and Bar: a Biographical Register of John Adams' Contemporaries -- Acknowledgments -- Guide to Editorial Apparatus -- Law Study -- Adams' Pleadings Book -- Torts. Bassett v. Mayhew; Mayhew v. Bassett; Mayhew v. Allen, 1762-1768 ; King v. Stewart, 1773-1774 ; Cotton v. Nye, 1767 ; Burnam v. Mugford, 1770-1771 ; Gill v. Mein, 1768-1769 -- Gray v. Pitts, 1771 -- Contracts. Porter v. Steel, 1770-1772 -- Commercial Law. Alcock v. Warden, 1766 ; Apthorp v. Gardiner, 1766-1768 ; Bancroft v. Lee, 1768-1772 ; Crowningshield v. Lee, 1768-1770 ; Longman v. Mein; Wright & Gill v. Mein, 1770-1771 -- Property. Prout v. Minot, 1761-1766 ; Keen v. Turner, 1768-1769 ; Clap's Will, 1767-1768 ; Clap v. Randall, 1769 ; Hill v. Whiting, 1770-1772 ; Prescott v. Keep, 1771-1776 ; Prescott v. Priest, 1771-1773 ; Wilkins v. Fuller, 1776-1772 ; Smith v. Fuller, 1770-1778 -- Domestic Relations. Broadstreet v. Broadstreet, 1771-1774 ; Dougherty v. Little, 1768 -- Administrative Law. Roxbury v. Boston, 1766 ; Plympton v. Middleboro, 1766 -- Chelsea v. Boston, 1769 ; Brookline v. Roxbury, 1767-1772 ; Essane v. Dotey, 1767-1768 ; Gage v. Headley, 1768 ; Josselyne v. Harrington, 1769-1771. |
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Volume 2. Descriptive List of Illustrations -- Town Government. Pingry v. Thurston, 1768-1771 ; Patch v. Herrick, 1771-1772 ; Emmons v. Brewer, 1772 -- Conservation. Wadsworth v. Loring, 1766-1768 ; Winslow v. Clark, 1767 -- Religion. Pierce v. Wright, 1768-1769 ; Green v. Washburn, 1769 -- Slavery. Slew v. Whipple, 1766 ; Newport v. Billing, 1768 ; Margaret v. Muzzy, 1768-1770 ; Caesar v. Taylor, 1771-1772 ; Caesar v. Greenleaf, 1773 -- Admiralty-Civil Jursidiction. Doane v. Gage, 1766-1769 -- Admiralty-Revenue Jurisdiction. Petition of Lechmere (Argument on Writs of Assistance), 1761 ; Folger v. Sloop Cornelia, 1768 ; Sewall v. Hancock, 1768-1769 ; Dowse v. Thirty-three Hogsheads of Molasses, 1768-1769 ; Sheaffe v. The Triton, 1768 ; Dowse v. Nineteen Casks of Molasses, 1768 ; Butler v. The Union, 1769 ; Dawson v. The Jenny, 1773 -- Admiralty-White PIne Acts Jurisdiction. Surveyor General v. Logs, 1769 ; Surveyor General v. Logs, Kennebec Company, Claimant, 1772-1773 -- Admiralty-Criminal Jurisdiction. Rex v. Corbet, 1769 ; Rex v. Nickerson, 1772-1773 -- Admiralty-Prize Jurisdiction. Penhallow v. The Lusanna, 1777-1795 -- Criminal Law. Rex v. Richardson, 1770-1772 ; Rex v. Ross, 1769-1770 ; Rex v. Moyse and Reader, 1769 ; Rex v. Bell, 1773. |
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Volume 3. Descriptive List of Illustrations -- Criminal Law, Continued. The Boston Massacre Trials. Rex v. Preston, 1770 ; Rex v. Wemms, 1770 -- List of Streets, Buildings, and Other Landmarks Mentioned in the Boston Massacre Trials -- Chronology: John Adams' Legal Career, 1756-1778 -- Table of Statutes -- Index. |
| Awards |
American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society, 1966. |
| Processing Action |
commitment to retain 20151208 pda OTUTLD |
| Subject |
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
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Law -- United States -- Cases.
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Lawyers -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
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Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Adams, John, 1735-1826 (OCoLC)fst00042531
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Law. (OCoLC)fst00993678
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Lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00994346
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Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Boston Massacre (1770) (OCoLC)fst00836805
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1770
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| Genre/Form |
Cases.
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Biography.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Wroth, L. Kinvin, editor, author of introduction.
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Zobel, Hiller B., editor, author of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Adams, John, 1735-1826. Legal papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965 (OCoLC)681705670 |
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