Francis Hargrave - Works

Works

He published many works of legal history and amassed a substantial collection of legal books and manuscripts. His works were:

  • ‘An Argument in the case of James Sommersett, a Negro, wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England,’ 1772; 3rd edit. 1788. Also in Howell's ‘State Trials,’ vol. xx.
  • ‘An Argument in Defence of Literary Property,’ 1774.
  • ‘Coke upon Lyttleton,’ edited by F. Hargrave and Charles Butler, 1775.
  • ‘State Trials from Henry IV to 19 George III,’ 1776, 11 vols.
  • ‘A Collection of Tracts relative to the Law of England, from manuscripts by Hale, Norburie, Blackstone, Hargrave, and others,’ 1787.
  • ‘Opinion on the case of the Duke of Athol in respect of the Isle of Man,’ 1788.
  • ‘Brief Deductions relative to the Aid and Supply of Executive Power in cases of Infancy, Delirium, or other incapacity of the King,’ 1788, anonymous.
  • ‘Collectanea Juridica: consisting of Cases, Tracts,’ &c., 2 vols. 1791–2. This includes the manuscript on the Star Chamber left by William Hudson.
  • ‘Sir M. Hale's Jurisdiction of the Lords' House of Parliament, with Preface by F. H.,’ 1796.
  • ‘Juridical Arguments and Collections,’ 1797–9, 2 vols. The arguments in the Thellusson will case were reprinted from this work separately in 1799, and a new edition by J. F. Hargrave was published in 1842.
  • ‘Address to the Grand Jury at the Liverpool Sessions on the present Crisis of Public Affairs,’ 1804.
  • ‘Jurisconsult Exercitations,’ 1811–13, 3 vols.

A catalogue of his manuscripts was compiled by Sir Henry Ellis, and published in 1818.

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