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Description and Holding Information
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Ridgeway, 1870, Speeches of Lord Erskine, 4v., main collection
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Speeches of Lord Erskine while at the bar; (Collected by James Ridgeway): ed. by James Lambert High, Vol. 1-4, Chicago, Callaghan & Cockcroft, 1870. (An index to the speeches and pleadings contained in this collection can be found in Vol. 4, starting at p. 499. Thomas Erskine 1750-1923, the youngest son of a Scottish Earl, rose from a relatively impoverished background to become a prominent barrister and eventually Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Although an indifferent parliamentarian, he was an accomplished court pleader. This collection includes his famous defenses of William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph and later John Stockdale, both for seditious libel. His defense of the former led to the Libel Act of 1792, which established the principle that juries, not judges, decided the question of whether or not a publication constituted a libel. Perhaps his most famous case in the area of freedom of the press was his defense in 1792, during the reign of George the Third, of Thomas Paine, author of The Rights of Man. The original 1810 English edition, from which this American edition was likely derived is also offered on this site.)
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Title:
Speeches of Lord Erskine, while at the bar / edited by James Lambert High.
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OCLC Number:
60714338
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