Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Reference books.
Manuscripts, American.

Biography/History:

Delegate to the Continental Congress (1780-1781) and signer of the Constitution for Pennsylvania; attorney general of Pennsylvania, 1791-1800, 1811-1816; member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, starting in 1791; city solicitor of Philadelphia, 1798-1801; U.S. district attorney for Pennsylvania, 1800-1801.

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.
Pagination: Paper, 263 leaves; 1-419, [420-526] (420-482 blank), contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
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.
Binding: Contemporary leather; covers detached, spine lacking.
Origin: Written in Philadelphia from ca. 1778 to 1813 (latest date in manuscript, p. 417).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Joseph R. Ingersoll, 1982.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1628.

OCLC:

812540162

Web link:

Unique at Penn blog post

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