Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Formulary

Authors

• Ingersoll, Jared, 1749-1822,

Call number

Ms. Codex 1628
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5839540
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5839540

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

ca. 1778-1813

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Compilation of legal forms, writs, and decisions, most frequently originating in Philadelphia, but with other jurisdictions in the Middle Atlantic states and England represented, from the office of prominent Philadelphia lawyer Jared Ingersoll. A copy of an otherwise unrecorded writ of error issued in 1792 by the Supreme Court of the United States, then sitting in Philadelphia, in the case of Pagan v. Hooper, with an attestation of its service, is included (p. 189-190). Areas of law involved include admiralty, property, and criminal law. An index alphabetized only by first letter, written primarily in a single hand after the formulary was compiled, is at the end of the volume (p. 483-501).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from covers, front endpaper, and spine remnant.
   

Extent

263 leaves : 325 x 200 (300 x 176) mm. bound to 330 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper, 263 leaves; 1-419, [420-526] (420-482 blank), contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather; covers detached, spine lacking.

Layout

Left vertical bounding line ruled in ink on each page in the early section of the manuscript copied by Ingersoll (p. 1-151).

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand (probably Jared Ingersoll's, signature, p.1) for the first part of the manuscript (p. 1-153) and by multiple hands for the rest of the manuscript.

Provenance

• Gift of the Ingersoll family.
   

Subjects topical

• Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• Legal documents--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800
• Legal instruments--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Formularies
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Licenses

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  URL

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