Yale Law Library Special Collections: Recent submissions
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The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian Statutes in the Yale Law LibraryCatalog of an exhibition highlighting the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s outstanding collection of early Italian city statutes, rivaled by few other U.S. libraries and surpassed by none. These municipal codes governed the dozens of Italian city-states that arose in the Middle Ages and persisted until the reunification of Italy in the late 19th century. In their mixing of Roman law, local law, and pragmatic innovations, the Italian municipal statutes became the prototype of European civil law.
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Italian Statuti: Views from a North American CuratorThis paper was presented at the conference organized by the De Statutis Society, "La libertà di decidere: da Cento a Cento, 1993-2024; Trent'anni di studi sugli statuti," June 1, 2024, in Cento, Italy. It describes the origins and development of the Yale Law Library's Italian Statute Collection, the largest collection outside of Italy. It discusses the need for an English-language guide to the genre, and offers suggestions on the value of Italian city statutes for the history of legal literature and for the growing field of book history.
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Of title to things real by devise : in two books, book I / transcribed by George B. Porter, July 1813.Manuscript notes of lectures given by Tapping Reeve or James Gould, at Litchfield Law School, transcribed in 1813 by George B. Porter.
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Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve, at the Litchfield Law School, taken circa 1820.Two volumes of notes by Tapping Reeve at his law school in Litchfield, Connecticut. Volume 2 contains the date October, 1820.
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A digest of law in a series of lectures delivered at Litchfield, Conn. by the Hon. Tapping Reeve & James Gould, Esq. and taken stenographically by Josiah Houghton.Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve and James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken between 1817 and 1818, by Josiah Houghton. One (of three) volumes of lecture notes from Litchfield Law School.
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Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve and James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken circa 1816 and 1817, by William Whiting Boardman.Five volumes of law notes taken at Tapping Reeve’s Litchfield Law School that cover various subjects (volume numbers assigned by Litchfield Historical Society). The subjects are broken down into subcategories that describe legal technicalities. There is no pagination in the volumes, except for volume 1. There is an autograph of "George Man" on the first page of volume 2. The date of "July 1817" is found on page 323 of volume 5.
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Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve, at the Litchfield Law School, taken in 1794, by Robert Fairchild.This notebook of lecture notes taken from classes taught by Tapping Reeve consists of 550 pages. Written on the first page is "continuation of a lecture on contracts" indicating that there was a prior notebook. Other topics include Real Property, On Evidence; and, Estates of Deceased Persons.
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Gould's LecturesFive volumes of law notes taken at Tapping Reeve’s Litchfield Law School that cover various subjects. The subjects are broken down into subcategories that describe legal technicalities. Volume 1: Some mis-numbering, every section starts with page one. Volume 2, page 11 has “Legal Tree.”; There are two page numbers 361.
