JOHN GARLAND JEFFERSON LIST, 1790
List of Recommended Books For The Study of the Law in his letter to John Garland Jefferson dated June 11, 1790 from New York. PTJ 16:480-482

                      1st.                       2d.                       3d.
Coke on Littleton
Dalrymple's feudal system.
Mallet's North antiquits.
Coke's 2d. 3d. & 4th. institutes.
Hale's history of the Com. law.
History of England in 3. vols. folio compiled by Kennet.
Coke's reports.
Gilbert on Devises.
Ludlow's memoirs
Vaughan's do.
                      Uses.
Burnet's history.
Salkfeld's
                      Tenures
Ld. Orrery's history.
Ld. Raymond's
                      Rents
Burke's George III.
Strange's.
                      Distresses.
Robertson's hist. of Scotld.
Burrow's
                      Ejectments
Robertson's hist. of America
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                      Executions.
other American histories
Kaim's Principles of equity.
                      Evidence.
Voltaire's historical works.
Vernon's reports.
Sayer's law of costs.
 
Peere Williams.
Lambard's eirenarchia.
 
Precedents in Chancery.
Bacon voce Pleas & Pleadings.
 
Tracy Atkyns.
Cuningham's law of bills.
 
Vezey.
Molloy de jure maritimo.
 
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Locke on government.
 
Hawkins's Pleas of the crown.
Montesquieu's Spirit of laws.
 
Blackstone. 
Smith's wealth of nations.
 
Virginia laws. 
Beccaria.
 
 
Kaim's moral essays.
 
 
Vattel's law of nations.
 

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