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Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Ephraim Kirby, director in the Connecticut land company in 1795

Digital Object ID ##0bo8sv

 Digital Record
Identifier: Digital Object ID ##0bo8sv
Dates: Digitized: 1883

Cowles, Henry Booth Letter

00-2020-14-0

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 00-2020-14-0
Dates: 1833 Dec 19

Ephraim Kirby Case Reports

00-2011-106-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-106-0
Scope and Contents

The Ephraim Kirby Case Reports collection (2011-106-0) is a copied collection of case reports created by Ephraim Kirby. The span of cases ranges from 1785 to 1789. There is a typed transcript of some of the cases from the collection included in the folder. Cases that are in reports range from cases about divorce, false imprisonment, and burglary. The cases are from around the state of Connecticut from Litchfield to New London Counties.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1785-1789; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012

Ephraim Kirby Legal Notes

00-1899-2-0

 Collection — Box Box 21A
Identifier: 00-1899-2-0
Scope and Contents The Ephraim Kirby Legal Notes collection (1899-2-0) is a bound volume containing notes and reports made by Ephraim Kirby when he was a law reporter. The notes and reports found in this volume were used to create the first published collection of law reports in the United States. The creation of the law reports was started to begin to differentiate United States common law from England’s common law. The cases found in this bound volume can be found in the published version, but the published...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1785-1787; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1898

Blank Writ of Attachment

00-2012-40-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2012-40-0
Scope and Contents

A blank writ of attachment (2012-40-0) from the 1870s from the Connecticut Superior Court. On the back is written in ink, "Wolcott Library."

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in ca. 1870