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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case, [ca. 9 April 1811]

Enclosure

List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case

Books quoted & possessed by me.    Books quoted but not possessed by me. 
Civil law.    Ferriere Valin  Pothier  Guyot. Repertoire Universelle  Denizart  Renusson  Julien  Prevot de la Janné  Partidas  Curia Philippica  8. Brown’s reports of appeals in Parliament.  Hale de Jure maris1Note, all my quotations from the above authors, except the two last, are taken from the Memoires of the counsel either for or against the question. 8. Brown was lent me by mr Rodney & returned. Hale de Jure maris is quoted from Bac. abr. Praerog. B.3. The books marked † are such as I presume can be found in Richmond, & need not therefore to be sent from Monticellothose marked * are I presume too unimportant, & will not therefore be sent unless particularly desired.those in the 1st column2 having no mark prefixed, it is presumed must be sent from Monticello,3 except such as may be found in Richmond & shall be so noted by Messrs Hay or Wirt to save the trouble of sending them.
Vinnii institutiones. 4to
Digest } in the Corpus Juris Civilis Gothofredi 2. v. 8vo
Codex
Theophili Antecessoris institutiones. 4to
Pragmatics of Attaliata. in the Jus Graeco-Romanum Leunclavii. fol.
Vinnii Partitiones juris civilis 4to
Noodt Probabilitates juris fol.
Calvini Lexicon juridicum. fol.
  1. Brown’s Civil law 8vo
Kaim’s Law tracts. 8vo
Vattel’s Law of Nature & Nations.
Grotius de jure Belli et Pacis.

French. 
  Encyclopedie Methodique. Jurisprudence by LeRasle
Napoleon Code Civil.
Boucher. Institutions Maritimes. 2. v. 4to
Nouveau Commentaire sur l’Ordonnance de la Marine de 1681. 2. v. 12mo
Domat’s Public Law. 2. v. fol.

English. 
  Statutes at large.
Bracton
Britton.
Fleta.
Lambard’s Eirenarchia.
Stamford P.C.
Bacon’s abr 8vo edition with Notes.
Comyn’s Digest.
Blackstone’s Commentaries.
Hawkins’s P.C.
1. Rolle’s Abr.
2. Jones’ Rep.
1. Salkeld.

American. 
Proclamation of O’Reilly
Laws of Orleans.
  Acts of Congress.
2. & 3. Dallas’ reports.
 Miscellaneous 
*  Gibbon’s Rom hist. c:44.153.
* Plinii Historia Naturalis
 *  Aristotle, Politica } word Αγρος
* Homeri Odyss.
* Stepani Thesaurus Linguae Gr.
 *  Dictionnaires de Richelet, Trevoux, de l’Academie. ‘rivage’
* Dictionnaire Historique. ‘Domat.’
Joutel’s Journal.

MS (NjMoHP: Lloyd W. Smith Collection); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated.

TJ discussed the Greek word Αγρος, which he defined as a rural field or grounds without buildings, in Jefferson, Proceedings description begins Thomas Jefferson, The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining The Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston. prepared for the use of counsel, by Thomas Jefferson, New York, 1812; Sowerby, nos. 3501, 3508; Poor, Jefferson’s Library, 10 (no. 604) description ends , 40.

1Reworked from “maritima.”

2Preceding four words interlined.

3TJ here canceled “unless they.”

Index Entries

  • Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America, begun … in the Year 1789 search
  • A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (Kerr and Moreau Lislet) search
  • A Digest of the laws of England (Comyns) search
  • A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform’d by Monsr de la Sale (Joutel) search
  • Alfonso X, king of Castile and León; Las Siete Partidas search
  • Anciennes loix des François (Hoüard, Littleton, and Pothier) search
  • A New Abridgment of the Law (M. Bacon) search
  • Aristotle; Les Politiqves d’Aristote (Leroy) search
  • Bacon, Mathew; A New Abridgment of the Law search
  • Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over; books on search
  • Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over; communications between TJ and his counsel concerning search
  • Bayle, Pierre; Dictionaire Historique et Critique search
  • Blackstone, William; Commentaries on the Laws of England search
  • Bolaños, Juan de Hevia; Curia philipica: donde breve y comprehendioso se trata de los juyzios, mayormente forenses search
  • books; and batture case search
  • Boucher, Pierre B.; Institution au droit maritime search
  • Bracton, Henry de; Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ search
  • Britton (Wingate, ed.) search
  • Brown, Josiah; Reports of Cases upon Appeals and Writs of Error (ed. Tomlins) search
  • Calvin, John; Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici search
  • Collection de décisions nouvelles (Denisart) search
  • Commentaries on the Laws of England (W. Blackstone) search
  • Comyns, Sir John; A Digest of the laws of England search
  • Congress, U.S.; Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America, begun … in the Year 1789 search
  • Corpus juris civilis (Justinian) search
  • Corpus Juris civilis Romani (Godefroy) search
  • Curia philipica: donde breve y comprehendioso se trata de los juyzios, mayormente forenses (Bolaños) search
  • Dallas, Alexander James; Reports of Cases ruled and adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania, before and since the Revolution search
  • De jure belli ac pacis libri tres (Grotius) search
  • De jure maris et brachiorum ejusdem (Hale) search
  • Denisart, Jean Baptiste; Collection de décisions nouvelles search
  • Dictionaire Historique et Critique (Bayle) search
  • Dictionnaire de droit et de pratique (Ferrière) search
  • Dictionnaire de la Langue Françoise, Ancienne et Moderne (Richelet) search
  • Domat, Jean; Les lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (trans. Strahan) search
  • Eirenarcha: or, Of the office of the Iustices of peace (Lambarde) search
  • Encyclopédie Méthodique: Jurisprudence (Lerasle) search
  • Estienne, Henri (Stepani; Stephani); Thesavrvs Graecae Lingvae search
  • Ferrière, Claude Joseph de; Dictionnaire de droit et de pratique search
  • Fleta seu commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus search
  • Gibbon, Edward; The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire search
  • Godefroy, Denys (Denis); Corpus Juris civilis Romani search
  • Grotius, Hugo; De jure belli ac pacis libri tres search
  • Guyot, Joseph Nicolas; Répertoire universel et raisonné de jurisprudence civile, criminelle, canonique et béneficiale search
  • Hale, Sir Mathew; De jure maris et brachiorum ejusdem search
  • Hawkins, William; Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown search
  • Hay, George; and TJ’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case search
  • Historical Law-Tracts (Kames) search
  • Homer; Odyssea Græce et Latine search
  • Hoüard, David; Anciennes loix des François search
  • Institution au droit maritime (Boucher) search
  • Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis (Leunclavius) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston search
  • Jones, Thomas (d.1692); Les Reports de divers special cases en le Common Bank & en le Court del Bank le Roy search
  • Joutel, Henri; A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform’d by Monsr de la Sale search
  • Julien (legal authority) search
  • Jurisprudentiæ Contractæ sive Partitionum Juris Civilis Libri IV (Vinnius) search
  • Kames (Kaim), Henry Home, Lord; Historical Law-Tracts search
  • Kerr, Lewis; A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans search
  • Lambarde, William; Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the Iustices of peace search
  • Las Siete Partidas (Alfonso X) search
  • law; books on search
  • law; Roman search
  • Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (E. de Vattel) search
  • Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (H. de Bracton) search
  • Lerasle; Encyclopédie Méthodique: Jurisprudence search
  • Leroy, Louis; Les politiqves d’Aristote search
  • Les lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (Domat; trans. Strahan) search
  • Les Plees del Coron (Stanford) search
  • Les Politiqves d’Aristote … traduictes de Grec en François, par Loys le Roy dict Regivs (Aristotle) search
  • Les Reports de divers special cases en le Common Bank & en le Court del Bank le Roy (Jones) search
  • Leunclavius, Johannes; Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis search
  • Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici (J. Calvin) search
  • Littleton, Thomas; Anciennes loix des François search
  • Moreau Lislet, Louis; A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans search
  • Napoleon I, emperor of France; code of search
  • Naturalis Historiæ (Pliny the Elder) search
  • Noodt, Gerard; Noviomagi, Jurisconsulti et Antescessoris, Opera omni, recognita, aucta, emdnata, multis in locis search
  • Nouveau Commentaire sur l’Ordonnance de la Marine (Valin) search
  • Noviomagi, Jurisconsulti et Antescessoris, Opera omnia, recognita, aucta, emendata, multis in locis (Noodt) search
  • Odyssea Græce et Latine (Homer) search
  • Œuvres (Renusson) search
  • O’Reilly, Alejandro; proclamation of search
  • Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus); Naturalis Historiæ search
  • Pothier, Robert Joseph; Anciennes loix des François search
  • Prevot de la Janné search
  • Renusson, Philippe de; Œuvres search
  • Répertoire universel et raisonné de jurisprudence civile, criminelle, canonique et béneficiale (Guyot) search
  • Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench: with some special cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer (Salkeld) search
  • Reports of Cases ruled and adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania, before and since the Revolution (Dallas) search
  • Reports of Cases upon Appeals and Writs of Error (Brown; ed. Tomlins) search
  • Richelet, Pierre; Dictionnaire de la Langue Françoise, Ancienne et Moderne search
  • Rodney, Caesar Augustus; and batture controversy search
  • Rolle, Henry; Un Abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del Common Ley search
  • Roman law; and batture controversy search
  • Salkeld, William; Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench: with some special cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer search
  • Smart, Thomas search
  • Stanford, Sir William; Les Plees del Coron search
  • Strahan, William, trans.; Les Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel search
  • Tazewell, Littleton Waller; and TJ’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case search
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (E. Gibbon) search
  • Theophili antecessoris Institvtionvm Libri IV (Theophilus) search
  • Theophilus; Theophili antecessoris Institvtionvm Libri IV search
  • The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston (Thomas Jefferson); Greek used in search
  • Thesavrvs Graecae Lingvae (Estienne) search
  • The Statutes at Large (English,1706) search
  • Thomas Smart v. The Magistrates and Town Council of the Burgh of Dundee (Brown’s Reports) search
  • Tomlins, Thomas E.; editor of Brown’s Reports search
  • Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown (Hawkins) search
  • Un Abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del Common Ley (H. Rolle) search
  • Valin, René Josué; Nouveau Commentaire sur l’Ordonnance de la Marine search
  • Vattel, Emmerich de; Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains search
  • Vinnius, Arnoldus; Jurisprudentiæ Contractæ sive Partitionum Juris Civilis Libri IV search
  • Wingate, Edmund; ed.Britton search
  • Wirt, William; and TJ’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case search