REPORTS OF CASES RULED AND DETERMINED BY THE COURT OF CONFERENCE OF NORTH-CAROLINA. BY DUNCAN CAMERON AND WILLIAM NORWOOD, OF HILLSBOROUGH.
Raleigh: J. Gales, 1805. Original scuffed sheep. 556, xvii, [1blank] pp. Light toning. One closed tear, barely affecting a letter or two, else Very Good.
"The early appellate courts of North Carolina were Courts of Conference composed of the circuit-riding trial judges who reviewed decisions made by their brethren wherever sessions of trial court were held." 66 N.C. Reports 732 [Judge Cecil J. Hill, 'When the North Carolina Supreme Court Sat in the Capitol'].
The Court of Conference was created in 1800. This book reports its decisions in a wide variety of fields from 1800 through 1804. In 1805 the North Carolina Supreme Court was created, replacing the Court of Conference.
Thornton, Official Publications 474. II Harv. Law Cat. 231. Not in Cohen. Item #28992
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