Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 139

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(LAW.) Dallas, Alexander J.; compiler. Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged. [2], x, 494, 26; [2], iv, 480, xix; [7], 519, xiii; [6], 472, xxxiv, [12] pages. 4 volumes. 8vo, later library cloth, moderate wear to first two volumes; light toning and foxing, moderate dampstaining in Volume IV; early ownership signatures on title pages, inked and embossed stamps and spine labels of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Philadelphia, 1806, 1798, 1799, 1807
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This series includes the first compiled reports of the United States Supreme Court, assembled by the court's official reporter. The Supreme Court section extends over 594 pages, from late in Volume II through page 46 of Volume IV, spanning from the court's first term in 1790 through 1800. Landmark cases from this period include Chisholm v. Georgia, the 1793 case which led to the Eleventh Amendment; and Georgia v. Brailsford from 1794, the court's first and only jury trial.
The less important Volume I, present here in the second edition, is titled "Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution." The final three volumes, here in first editions, are titled "Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States and Pennsylvania." Among the early owners was David Howell (1747-1824), a longtime federal judge in Rhode Island, who signed Volume II. Evans 33598, 35374; Sabin 18313.