Edward Jacob (barrister)

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Edward Jacob (c. 1795–1841) was an English barrister and legal writer.[1]

Life

The son of

called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 28 June of that year.[2][3]

Jacob practised in the

chancery court, and was appointed a King's Counsel on 27 December 1834. He died on 15 December 1841.[2]

Works

With John Walker, Jacob edited Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery during the time of Lord-chancellor Eldon, 1819, 1820, 2 vols. 1821–3; and by himself; a volume of similar reports for 1821 and 1822, published in 1828. He also published with additions a second edition of Roper Stote Donnison Roper's Treatise of the Law of Property arising from the relation between Husband and Wife, 1826.[2] This work was the basis for the Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife (1849) of John Edward Bright.[4][5]

Notes

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14575. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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  2. ^ a b c Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jacob, William (1762?-1851)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ "Jacob, Edward (JCB812E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Roper, Roper Stote Donnison" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. ^ A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly Founded Upon Roper's [...] (1849), archive.org.
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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jacob, Edward (1795?-1841)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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