{"id":737,"date":"2015-10-28T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/?p=737"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:56:23","slug":"new-additions-to-our-digitised-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/new-additions-to-our-digitised-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"New Additions to our Digitised Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Law Library continues to work on enlarging our collection of digitised books from our rare and special collections. These are some latest additions that eloquently illustrate the breadth and depth of our collections:<\/li>\n<li><i><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134450\" target=\"_blank\">The compleate copy-holder<\/a>, wherein is contained a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds &#8230; Necessary, both for the Lord and Tenant: Together, with the form of keeping a Copy-hold Court and Court-Baron <\/em>\/ Edward Coke, 1644.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-749 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate3-7.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate3 7\" width=\"535\" height=\"786\" \/><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do not be deceived by the title of this book authored by nobody else but famous, Sir Edward Coke (1552 &#8211; 1634). <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-750 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate3-9.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate3 9\" width=\"241\" height=\"352\" \/>It has nothing to do with copies as we understand them now. According to Britannica, \u201ccopyhold, in English law, a form of landholding defined as a \u2018holding at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor.\u2019 Its origin is found in the occupation by villeins, or nonfreemen, of portions of land belonging to the manor of the feudal lord. In 1926 all copyhold land became freehold land, though the lords of manors retained mineral and sporting rights.\u201d Until 1926, manors themselves were freehold property, and were bought and sold between major landowners, while smaller landholdings within manors were held by copyhold tenure, while the land was technically owned by the Lord of the Manor. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-748 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate3-5.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate3 5\" width=\"271\" height=\"187\" \/>The term &#8216;copyhold&#8217; originates from the custom when the official record of the copyhold on landholding was written up in the manorial court rolls and an official copy of the court roll entry was made for the tenant as their proof of title. This particular copy is especially interesting because printers\u2019 waste (unused pages printed for other book) have been used as end papers.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134454\" target=\"_blank\">Collection of legal documents <\/a>relating to a lawsuit by Francis Rybot against Pierre DuCalvet, in the Court of Common Pleas, Province of Quebec, District of Montreal<\/em>, 1783-1786.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate1-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-747 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate1-6.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate1 6\" width=\"211\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a>This uninviting title is in fact an illustration to a less-known episode of the life of one of the famous figures of the Qu\u00e9bec history. The digitised manuscript documents are related to the court case against Pierre DuCalvet, who was a Montreal trader, justice of the peace, epistle writer, author of the famous <em>Appel \u00e0 la justice de l<\/em>\u2019<em>\u00c9tat<\/em>, and passionate advocate of the reform of justice and constitutional system in Qu\u00e9bec. The full biography of Pierre DuCalvet can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biographi.ca\/en\/bio\/du_calvet_pierre_4E.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary of Canadian Biography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134459\" target=\"_blank\">Les reve\u0301lations du crime<\/a>: ou, Cambray et ses complices; Chroniques canadiennes de 1834<\/em> \/ R\u00e9al F. Angers, 1880.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-745 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-7.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate 7\" width=\"287\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a>Ce livre est le r\u00e9cit romanc\u00e9 des m\u00e9faits, vols, sacril\u00e8ges et meurtres d&#8217;une bande de brigands qui a terroris\u00e9 la ville de Qu\u00e9bec et ses environs de 1834 \u00e0 1837. Vous pouvez trouver plus d\u2019information sur la bande des Chambers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourroots.ca\/e\/page.aspx?id=3693869\" target=\"_blank\">ici<\/a>. According to the\u00a0Dictionary of Canadian Biography, this work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biographi.ca\/en\/bio.php?id_nbr=3745\" target=\"_blank\">Fran\u00e7ois-R\u00e9al Angers <\/a>was considered &#8220;one of the most readable and widely circulated books of the first half of the 19th century in Canada.\u201d\u00a0 It was published in several monograph editions in 1834, 1867, 1880, and 1969, serialised in at least three newspapers, and\u00a0 translated into English in 1867 as <em>The Canadian brigands; an intensely exciting story of crime in Quebec, thirty years ago!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134451\" target=\"_blank\">A declaration of His Majesties <\/a>royall pleasure, in what sort he thinketh fit to enlarge or reserve himself in matter of bountie \/ <\/em>James I, King of England, 1897.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-4-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-741 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-4-7.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate 4 7\" width=\"280\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a>This book is a facsimile reprint produced by the British Museum in 1897. The original was published in 1610. This declaration was issued by James I (1603-1625) as a clarifying statement concerning granting of monopolies following the grievances expressed in and by Parliament. The culmination of this discussion was adoption of the <em>Statute of Monopolies<\/em> 1624, 21 Jac 1, c 3, one of the key texts in the history of patent law. You can read more on the 1624 Statute of Monopolies in this article <a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/mulr33&amp;div=21&amp;start_page=415&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=0&amp;men_tab=srchresults\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Generally Inconvenient\u2019<\/a>: The 1624 Statute of Monopolies as Political Compromise. 33 Melb U L Rev 415 (2009).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And some more books&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134458.\" target=\"_blank\">A letter to Henry Warburton<\/a>, Esq. M.P. upon the emancipation of the Jews<\/em> \/ Basil Montagu, 1833.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-742 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-9.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate 5 9\" width=\"1713\" height=\"2663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-9.jpg 1713w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-9-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-9-659x1024.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1713px) 100vw, 1713px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/link.worldcat.org\/?jHome=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitool.library.mcgill.ca%2Fwebclient%2FDeliveryManager%3F%26pid%3D134448&amp;linktype=best\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The work of a faculty of law in a university<\/em><\/a> (An annual university lecture delivered by Frederick Parker Walton, the Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Professor of Roman Law at McGill University), 1898.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-6-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-744\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-6-3.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate 6 3\" width=\"1991\" height=\"2992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-6-3.jpg 1991w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-6-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-6-3-681x1024.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134452\" target=\"_blank\">A guide for constables, churchwardens<\/a>, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the high-ways, treasurers of the county-stock, masters of the house of correction, bayliffs of mannors, toll-takers in fairs, &amp;c. A treatise briefly shewing the extent and latitude of the several offices, with the power of the officers therein, both by common law and statute, according to the several additions and alterations of the law <\/em>\u00a0\/ George Meriton, 1679.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-754\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate 5 1\" width=\"1075\" height=\"1888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-1.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-1-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate-5-1-583x1024.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.library.mcgill.ca\/webclient\/DeliveryManager?&amp;pid=134453\" target=\"_blank\">Index professionnel des avocats, notaires<\/a>, protonotaires re\u0301gistrateurs, she\u0301rifs, huissiers, me\u0301decins, pharmaciens, dentistes, architectes, arpenteurs, inge\u0301nieurs civils, et me\u0301decins ve\u0301te\u0301rinaires de la province de Que\u0301bec<\/em>, 1894.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-751\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-1.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate9 1\" width=\"934\" height=\"1437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-1.jpg 934w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-1-666x1024.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-44.jpg\" alt=\"StreamGate9 44\" width=\"900\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-44.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-44-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/files\/2015\/10\/StreamGate9-44-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Library continues to work on enlarging our collection of digitised books from our rare and special collections. These are some latest additions that eloquently illustrate the breadth and depth of our collections: The compleate copy-holder, wherein is contained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/new-additions-to-our-digitised-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-that-i-liked","category-rare-books","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}