Anthony Hammond (legal writer)
Anthony Hammond (1758–1838) was an English barrister and legal writer, known as a legal reformer. His reform proposals for legal codification, influenced by
Life
He practised below the bar as a
In 1824 Hammond was examined by a select parliamentary committee appointed to consider the expediency of consolidating and amending the criminal law of England; and he submitted a draft measure for that purpose, which was printed by order of the
Hammond was also consulted by the commissioners for the revision of the laws of the
Works
Hammond published the following works:
- The Law of Nisi Prius. 1816. 8vo.
- Parties to Actions. 1817, 1827. 8vo.
- Principles of Pleading. 1819. 8vo.
- Scheme of a Digest of the Laws of England, with Introductory Essays on the Science of Natural Jurisprudence. 1820. 8vo.
- Reports in Equity. 1821. 2 vols. 8vo.
- Analytical Digest to the Term Reports and others. 1824, second edition. 8vo. New edition, 1827.
- A Summary Treatise of the Practice and Proceedings in Parliament. 1825. 8vo.[2][4]
- On the Reduction to Writing of the Criminal Law of England. 1829. 8vo.[2]
He also edited the fifth edition of Comyns' Digest[5][6] and re-edited, along with Thomas Colpitts Granger, William David Evans' A Collection of Statutes...:
- Vol 1, 1836
- Vol 2, 1836
- Vol 3, 1836
- Vol 4, 1836
- Vol 5, 1836
- Vol 6, 1836
- Vol 7, 1836
- Vol 8, 1836
- Vol 9
- Vol 10, 1836
- Supplement, 1836(?)
References
- Hamzo and Crimmins. "Hammond, Anthony (1758-1838)". Crimmins (ed). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism. 2013. Paperback. 2017. Page 138.
- Venn and Venn (eds). "Hammond (formerly Ewbanke), Anthony". Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900. Part 3. Cambridge University Press. 1947. Reprinted 2011. Page 217.
- Rouse Ball and Venn. "Hammond, Anthony". Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge. Macmillan. 1911. Volume 3. Page 249.
- Burke. "Anthony Hammond". A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, for the Year 1853. Page 146.
- Allibone. "Hammond, Anthony". A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. Childs & Peterson. Arch Street, Philadelphia. 1859. Volume 1. Page 779.
- William Holdsworth. A History of English Law. First published 1952. Meuthen & Co. London. Volume 13. Page 286.
- John V Orth. Combination and Conspiracy: A Legal History of Trade Unionism, 1721–1906. Clarendon Press. 1991. Page 75. Google Books
- "Criminal Code" (1827) 1 The Jurist 1 (March 1827)
- "Chronological Digest of English Cases" (1830) 2 United States Law Intelligencer and Review 105 (March 1830)
- Report of the Commissioners appointed to revise the Statute Laws of this State. Albany. 1828. Page 6.
Notes
- ^ T. C. W. Blanning, David Cannadine (editors), History and Biography: Essays in Honour of Derek Beales (2002), p. 106; Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e Rigg, James McMullen (1890). . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 240.
- ^ Leon Radzinowicz. A History of English Criminal Law and its Administration from 1750. Volume 1 (The Movement for Reform). Stevens and Sons. 1948. Page 576.
- ^ For a review of this book, see "Law" (1825) 2 The Monthly Critical Gazette 423 (No 11, 1 April 1825). For further commentary on this book, see Seaward, "The Treatise on Parliamentary Procedure" in Evans (ed). Essays on the History of Parliamentary Procedure. Hart Publishing. Oxford and Portland, Oregon. 2017. Page 113.
- ^ Hammond, Anthony 1758-1838. WorldCat.
- ^ For further commentary on this edition, see Lowndes, The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, 1834, vol 1, p 468
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1890). "Hammond, Anthony (1758-1838)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 240.
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