Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Volume 62
LAW IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS
1630–1800
A conference held 6 and 7 November 1981 by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Distributed by the University Press of Virginia
1984
copyright © 1984 the colonial society of massachusetts
library of congress catalog card number 84–061534
Printed from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund
Frontispiece: An engraving of Justice from Murphy v. Pinchbeck, Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Suffolk, 1805 JAN c. 392. Courtesy, Social Law-Library.
Title Page: Figure of Justice with Scales. From the Title Page of Ioanne Imberto, Enchiridion Juris Scripti Galliae (Utrecht, 1647). Courtesy, Collection of Daniel R. Coquillette.
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printed at the anthoensen press, portland, maine
Dedicated to the Memory of
John Noble, 1829–1909
clerk of the supreme judicial court for suffolk county, 1875–1908
a leading member of the colonial society of massachusetts during its early days
a pioneer in the conservation and understanding of early court records
Photograph Courtesy Social Law Library.