Papers, 1803-1811.

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Papers, 1803-1811.

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Account book, legal notes, and vocabulary of French legal terms kept by John Pickering, philologist and lawyer at Salem (Mass.) and later Boston. Account book lists dates, plaintiffs' and defendants' names (often with occupations), amounts paid or due, method of payment, and resolutions of the cases; also includes fee schedule and index of plaintiffs' names. Legal notes refer mostly to cases tried in the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court and the legal opinions of Judge Edmund Trowbridge.

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Trowbridge, Edmund, 1709-1793.

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Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court

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Prior to 1780 called Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature. From the description of Pauper cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court, 1805-1826. (State Library of Massachusetts). WorldCat record id: 70967797 The Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts succeeded the Superior Court of Judicature established for the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, implicitly by Const Pt 2, C 3, Art 2 and explicitly by St 1780, c 17; see a...

Pickering, John, 1777-1846

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The son of statesman Timothy Pickering, John Pickering was a lawyer and philologist who practiced law in Salem and Boston. He compiled a lexicon of the Greek language (1826) and the first dictionary of Americanisms. From the description of Letter to Henry Dearborn, 5 February 1836. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339494 ...