Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Five: Commonplace Books of Law: A Selection of Law-Related Notebooks

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Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Five contains the transcriptions of five notebooks, one ledger, and one diary as well as critical introductions to each piece and an essay on notebooks in legal culture. Primary sources include: a seventeenth century notebook authored by multiple anonymous persons likely to have been students in the Inns of Courts, Alexander Dorcas\u27 ledger used from 1785 to 1817, George Josiah Sturges Walker\u27s 1826 Litchfield Law School notebook, Thomas K. Jackson\u27s 1871 diary, James Thomas Kirk\u27s notebook used from 1891 to 1916, Jerome T. Fuller\u27s notebook used from 1925 to 1935, and Hugo L. Black\u27s notebook used from 1938 to 1940.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/occasional_publications/1004/thumbnail.jp

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