Yale A.B. Reeve

MssB L71 1802 v.1-7

Notebook

Aaron Burr Reeve

1802

Rare Book Collection

Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library

Litchfield, Connecticut

7 volumes; 23 cm

Seven bound volumes of handwritten law lectures given by Tapping Reeve at the Litchfield Law School. The notes were taken down by Aaron Burr Reeve, only son of Tapping Reeve. The lectures are written on the right hand pages, with the left hand pages usually left blank and headed "Remarks." Volumes 1 and 2, as well as 4 through 7 contain Aaron Burr Reeve's autograph. Volume 3 contains the autograph of Tapping Reeve, and several of the volumes contain annotations by Tapping Reeve. Tradition states that Tapping Reeve used these notebooks in his lectures during the last years of his teaching.

Volume 1 contains a "List of subscription papers" in Tapping Reeve's handwriting at the end of the volume. The names of several former students appear on the list, including Nathan Smith, Thomas Day, ...George Griffin, Philo Ruggles, and Ebenezer Baldwin.

Topics covered Volume 1:
Of Law
Of Municipal Law
Rules of Interpretation of Laws
Of the Validity of Customs
Construction of Customs
Of the Lex Scripta or Statute Law
Of the Construction of Statutes
Of Reading Statutes and the Order of Prosecuting under them
Of Prosecutions under Penal Statues
Qui Tam Actions
Baron and Feme
Of Husband and Wife
Parent and Child
Guardian and Ward
Master and Servant

Topics covered Volume 2:
Executors and Administrators
Sheriffs
Inns and Innkeepers
Bailment

Topics covered Volume 3:
Contracts

Topics covered Volume 4:
Pleas and Readings
Writs of Error
Bills of Exceptions
New Trials
The Practice of the State of Connecticut

Topics covered Volume 5:
Real Property
Mortgages
Of States in Joint Tenancy
Devises

Topics Volume 6:
Alienation by Deed
Deeds
Trespass
Disseisin or Dispossing
Nusance
Waste
Of Evidence
Powers of Chancery

Topics covered Volume 7:
Private Wrongs
Lex Mercatoria
Public Wrongs

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