Chapter XIX
Common Law
. . . the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors,
& to the public. it is the most certain stepping stone to preferment in the political line . . .
letter from
Thomas Jefferson
to thomas mann randolph, may 30, 1790.
. . . Law is quite overdone. it is fallen to the ground; and a man must have great powers to raise himself in it to either
honour or profit. the Mob of the profession get by it as little money, & less respect, than they would by digging the earth
. . .
letter from
Thomas Jefferson
to judge david campbell, january 28, 1810.
David Campbell was from Campbella, near Knoxville, Tennessee.
1
Cragii Jus feudale.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 168, as above.
Craig, Sir Thomas.
D. Thomæ Cragii de Riccarton, Equitis, in Senatu Edinburgensi Patroni celeberrimi & jurisconsultissimi, Jus Feudale, Tribus Libris comprehensum
. . . Editio
tertia, prioribus multò emendatior . . . Accessit rerum & verborum Index locupletissimus, unà cum regularum seu axiomatum juris
in hoc opere sparsim adhibitorum sylloge, ac vocabulorum forensium interpretatione. Opera & studio Jacobi Baillie Advocati.
Edinburgi: apud
Tho. & Walt. Ruddimannos,
mdccxxxii
. [1732]
Law 197
Folio. 299 leaves in twos, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue, 1731; title-page printed in red and black, separate signatures and pagination for the Index at the end.
Marvin, page 237.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 378, 5.
Sir Thomas Craig, 1538-1608, Scottish feudalist. This work was originally published in 1603, republished in Leipzig in 1716, and the third
edition as above in 1732, with a preface by Robert Burnet (afterwards Lord Crimond), and a life of Craig by James Baillie.
[1766]
2
Lambard’s Archaionomia.
Sax.
Lat.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 77. no. 169, as above.
LAMBARDE,
William.
Αρχαιονομια, sive de priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot ab hinc seculis conscripti,
nunc demum, magno jurisperitorum, & amantium antiquitatis omnium commodo, è tenebris in lucem vocati. Gvlielmo Lambardo interprete. Sexcentis in locis à libro ipsius castigata, quo pro exemplari utimur; cum multis aliis additionibus. Accessere
in hac nostra ultima Editione Leges Henrici primi nunc primùm editæ, ex manuscripto in Fisco Regis habito: Unà cum Glossario
earum antiquo ex Manuscripto Codice olim S. Augus-
