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The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House, London (1774)

Source:
British Library : 515.f.16(3)

Citation:
The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (1774), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Record-ID:
uk_1774c

Full title
The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House in the great Cause concerning Literary Property together with the Opinions of the Learned Judges, on the Common Law Copyright of Authors and Booksellers, to which are added, the Speeches of the Noble Lords, who spoke for and against reversing the Decree of the Court of Chancery

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Abstract
This document is associated with the following core document: uk_1774

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Author
Anon.

Publisher
Wilkin, Axtell, Axtell and Browne

Location
London

Year
1774

Language
English

Source
British Library : 515.f.16(3)

Physical description
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Illustrations tables
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Persons referred to
Adams, Richard (1709/10-1774)
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)
Anne (1665-1714)
Ashurst, William (1725-1807)
Aston, Richard (1717-1778)
Atticus, Titus Pomponius (110 B.C.-32 B.C.)
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Blackstone, William (1723-1780)
Burrow, Sir James (1701-1782)
Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl (1714-1794)
Charles I (1600-1649)
Charles II (1630-1685)
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.)
Clarke, Sir Thomas (1703/04-1764)
Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)
de Grey, William (1719-1781)
Donaldson, Alexander (1727-1794)
Dunning, John (1731-1783)
Edward VI (1537-1553)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Eyre, Sir James (1734-1799)
Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786)
George III (1738-1820)
Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey (1674-1726)
Gould, Henry (1710-1794)
Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645)
Hargrave, Francis (1740/41-1821)
Harrison, John (1693-1776)
Hawkesworth, John (c.1715-1773)
Henley, Robert, 1st Earl of Northington (c.1708-1772)
Henry VI (1421-1471)
Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Howard, Thomas, 3rd Earl of Effingham (1746-1791)
Hume, David (1711-1776)
James I (1566-1625)
James II (1633-1701)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Junius (fl.1769-1772)
Law, Rt Rev Edmund (1703-1787)
Lee, Sir William (1688-1754)
Lintot
Locke, John (1632-1704)
Lyttelton, Thomas, 2nd Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (1744-1779)
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793)
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Nares, John (1716-1786)
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)
Newton, Thomas (1704-1782)
Paulus, Julius (c.190-c.225)
Perrott, George (1710-1780)
Prynne, William (1600-1669)
Richard II (1367-1400)
Robertson, William (1721-1793)
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of (1671-1713)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771)
Smythe, Sir Sidney Stafford (1705-1778)
Stair, John Dalrymple, 5th Earl (1720-1789)
Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron (1731-1806)
Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Tonson
Wedderburn, Alexander, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1733-1805)
Willes, Edward (c.1723-1787)
William III (1650-1702)
Wolsey, Thomas (c.1475-1530)
Yates, Joseph (1722-1770)
Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764)

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America
Asia
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
London
Rome
Scotland
Tyburn

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Legislation referred to
Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19

Legislation referred to in commentary
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Cases referred to
Stationers' Company v. Seymour (1677) 1 Mod. 256
Eyre v. Walker (1735) NA, c.11 1520/29
Pope v. Curl (1741) 2 Atk. 342
Midwinter v. Hamilton (1743-1748)
Tonson v. Walker (1752) 3 Swans 672
Duke of Queensbury v. Shebbeare (1758) 2 Eden 329
Basket v. University of Cambridge (1758) 2 Keny. 397, 1 Black W. 105, 2 Burr. 661
Dodsley v. Kinnersley (1761) Amb. 403
Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303
Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129

Cases referred to in commentary
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Institutions referred to
Court of Chancery
Court of King's Bench
Court of Sessions, Scotland
House of Commons
House of Lords
Stamp Office (London)
Stationers' Company
University of Cambridge

Institutions referred to in commentary
N/A

Key words
common law copyright
inventions
monopoly
patents, printing
perpetual protection
privileges, printing
property theory
public domain

Responsible editor
Ronan Deazley




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