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New Digital Exhibits
No full textIn 2022, the Barco Law Library launched a new digital exhibit platform. Scholarship@Pitt Law is an open-access digital repository that collects, develops, and disseminates the intellectual and creative scholarship, publications, and other archival material of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Scholarship@Pitt Law is a service of the Barco Law Library. Exhibits featured below highlight the law library collections preserved in our digital repository.
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Sir William Blackstone, 1755
No full textBased on 1755 oil painting by Sir Joshua Renyolds, held by the National Portrait Gallery in London. Blackstone was a prominent English politician, lawyer, Justice of the Court of King\u27s Bench and Justice of the Common Pleas. He is best known as the author of Commentaries on the Laws of England (commonly referred to as Blackstone’s Commentaries) an influential legal treatise on the English common law that is still used in legal education and discourse.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1012/thumbnail.jp
Legal Fees Charged to Represent Slave in Court
No full textReceipt for Legal Fees Charged for the Defence of a Slave]. N.p.: May 17, 1854. Jones, an admin. of the estate of Robert S. McLane, Decd., one hundred & fifty dollars in full for defending a slave named Bob (or Rob), on a charge of the murder of Moses, a slave belonging to Enoch Walton. Some toning and light foxing, faint fold lines. A well-preserved item.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1011/thumbnail.jp
Bambridge on Trial for Murder, 1803
No full text1803 print depicts several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for the brutal treatment of prisoners, one of whom is shown at center wearing a punishment device, known as the collar, that fits around the neck and one or both hands, another device, known as the sheers, is held by Grant, and another device, known as the skull cap, is held by Oglethorpe and two other committee members. Bambridge was subsequently tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of a prisoner.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1006/thumbnail.jp
Mortgage Indenture, Reading, PA, May 30, 1783
No full textMortgage Indenture, Signed by Mary Scull, Witnessed by William Drinker and Collinson Read. Reading Township, Berks County, PA, May 30, 1783. An early example of a home equity loan, Scull, a widow, used the value of her house to borrow 250 pounds in gold and silver from Philadelphia merchants Abel James and Henry Drinker. Collinson Read and William Drinker, the witnesses, were prominent Pennsylvania lawyers.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1010/thumbnail.jp
Justice Douglas letter to MacIntyre, 1942
No full textPersonal correspondence from Justice William O. Douglas and Malcom A. MacIntyre, 1942https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1009/thumbnail.jp
Bow Street Office, 1808
No full textLondoners crowd a courtroom in Bow Street, waiting to appear before a Westminster magistrate who sits on a podium in the left background. This court had been established in the 1740s to address minor crimes such as drunkenness, fighting and prostitution, and relieve pressure on higher courts such as the Old Bailey. By focusing on the waiting crowd, instead of those who administer justice, the print conveys the capital\u27s popular energyhttps://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1007/thumbnail.jp
1848 Schedule and List of Rules for the Probate Courts of York County, Maine
No full textCourts of Probate. State of Maine: York, SS-At a Court of Probate, Held at North-Berwick, On the Fourth Day of December, In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight: Ordered, That from and After the Day Aforesaid, The Courts of Probate, Within and for the County of York, Be Held on the First Monday of Every Month, At the Following Places...[York County, ME, 1871]. This broadside is divided into two sections. The upper section of this broadside outlines the court schedule and locations (Alfred, Limerick, Saco, Kennebunk, North Berwick and York). The lower section is a list of 16 court rules, most of them procedural. Early signature (of a town clerk?) to verso.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1004/thumbnail.jp
The Bench
No full textA facsimile of Hogarth’s own engraving intended to show the difference between CHARACTER and CARACATURA,” this print juxtaposes the images of prominent English judges with exaggerated caricatures in the upper portion. This caricature section, referred to as “the second state” in discourse on the print, is rendered in less detail as it was incomplete when Hogarth died in 1764.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1013/thumbnail.jp
Scholars at a Lecture, 1736
No full textScholars at a lecture; Oxford, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt hats and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed in ink, with various squiggles, \u27Datur Vacuum\u27.” The central figure at the lectern is identified as William Fisher (died 1761), Registrar of Oxford University.https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/pitt-law-art/1014/thumbnail.jp
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