St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807837210 ISBN 13: 9780807837214

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2013

Synopsis

Best known for his edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, St. George Tucker (1752-1827), a lawyer and judge in the state and federal courts of Virginia, played a central role in the legal history of post-Revolutionary Virginia and of the new nation. This comprehensive three-volume edition of Tucker's law reports and selected loose papers, edited by Charles F. Hobson, is an unsurpassed archive for studying the "republicanization" of the common law as it unfolded in the commonwealth of Virginia. In addition, Tucker's papers provide an invaluable source for tracking Virginia's efforts to establish a system of state superior courts operating alongside the older county court system dating from the colonial period.
Tucker's reports fill a documentary gap caused by the 1865 fire that destroyed Virginia's higher court records. The editor's general introduction supplies an informative overview of Tucker's life and judicial career. Editorial aids and appendixes include a guide to Tucker's abbreviations, a short-title bibliography, a glossary of selected legal terms, a biographical register of the Virginia bench and bar, and correspondence and documents relating to the rupture between Tucker and Spencer Roane.

About this title

Book Description:

"St. George Tucker belongs with James Kent as one of the most important and influential legal thinkers of the post-Revolutionary era. His reports provide crucial insight into the legal debates shaping major ideological issues such as slavery, crime and punishment, debt regulation, the power between church and state, judicial review, and the common law in the new nation. Through the lens of a deeply divided court, we see these abstract intellectual questions made concrete in legal decisions affecting actual people. This is a real gift." --Holly Brewer, University of Maryland

About the Author:

Charles F. Hobson, formerly editor of The Papers of John Marshall, is a resident scholar at the William and Mary School of Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0807837210
• ISBN 13: 9780807837214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 2064
• Editor: Hobson Charles F.