The Equity Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson ca. 1765.

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The Equity Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson ca. 1765.

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One of the two surviving commonplace books that Jefferson kept in 1765. The first volume, known as the Legal Commonplace Book, was begun in 1765. Having made 113 entries, Jefferson he began a separate book for equity law, which in his day was argued in a separate court, the Court of Chancery. The book contains 2018 numbered entries derived from writings of Henry Home, Lord Kames, Matthew Bacon, William Peere Williams, Henry Ballow, and other standard authorities available to equity practitioners of the era.

173 leaves, 18 cm., bound volumes.

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