Birth Date:
1780-10-03
Death Date:
1809-09-01
Litchfield Ledger:
Original Repository:
Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School
Reeve, Aaron Burr
| Lecture Date | Lecturer | Opening Line | All terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Private wrongs, Volume 7 Private wrongs | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Pleas & pleadings, Volume 4 Pleas & pleadings | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Contracts, Volume 3 Contracts | |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 5 Real property | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | All those contracts of infants which are not binding are either void or voidable, but of late, Courts have been more inclined to declare them voidable | Parent & child, Volume 1 Void & voidable contracts of infants |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | An infant cannot exercise a general power over real estate, but he can a special one, such being not discretionary. | Parent & child, Volume 1 How far infants are capable to exercise power |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | Infants unborn or in ventre sa mere, are in law for many purposes in esse. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Infants in ventre sa mere |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Sheriff & Gaoler, Volume 2 Sheriffs | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | In England, infants may regularly hold ministerial offices, but not judicial ones. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Infants capacity to hold offices |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | When an infant brings a suit, he must appear by his guardian or prochein amy, for he cannot appear by attorney, he not being of a capacity to make a power of attorney. | Parent & child, Volume 1 When an infant may sue by prochein ami |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | A legitimate child is one born during lawful wedlock or within a competent time after its determination. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Illegitimacy |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Mercantile law, Volume 7 Lex Mercatoria | |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | Those rights of an illegitimate child, says Judge Blackstone, are but very few, being such only as he can acquire, for he inherits nothing, being looked upon as a child of nobody. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Of the rights & capacities of bastards |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | The general division of Municipal Law is said to be written because its original intitution is committed to writing, and the Roll or original Record is the Law itself. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Of the Lex Scripta or statute law |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Customs to be valid must be accompanied with several circumstances. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Validity & construction of customs |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | Parents, if of sufficient ability, are bound to support such of their poor impotent children as are unable to support themselves | Parent & child, Volume 1 Reciprocal duty of maintenance |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Volume 4 Writs of error, Writs of error | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | A parent may have an action for an injury done to his child, provided the injury in its consequences be injurious to himself. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Of the parent's right of action for injury |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | A guardian is defined to be a temporary parent, a person standing for a time in loco parentis. | Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Guardian & ward |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | I. Guardians of chivalry; II. Guardians by nature; III. guardians in socage; IV. guardians for nurture; V. testamentary guardians; VI. guardians by special custom | Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Of the several species of guardian |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Chancery, Volume 6 Powers of chancery | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Bills of exception, Volume 4 Bills of exceptions | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | It is regularly true that the settlement of the father is the settlement of the child | Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Of the settlement of minors |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | New trials, Volume 4 New trials | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 6 Alienation by deed | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | The law of England recognizes but four species of servants. I. apprentices; II. menial servants; III. day laborers; IV. bailiffs, factors, brokers, agents, attorneys &c. | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Of the different kinds of servant |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Apprentices derive their name from the French word apprendre, to learn, and as the name imports, they are such persons as are bound for a term to their masters | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Apprentices |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | They are called menial servants from their being within the walls, or intra menia, being employed indoors. | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Menial servants |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Inns & Innkeepers, Volume 2 Inns & innkeepers | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Practice in Connecticut, Volume 4 Practice of the State of Connecticut | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 6 Deeds | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | These are servants of a higher order than any of the former, but they are never the less considered as servants so far as their acts affect their employers | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Agents factors bailiffs |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Many acts of the servant are considered as acts of the master, but for those acts only that are performed by the servant, in the business of the master, he is liable. | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Master's liability for acts of servants |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Bailments, Volume 2 Bailments | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | I have before observed that by construction is meant the discovery of the intention of the legislature, and to construe a statute equitably is to ascribe to it the intention | Municipal law, Volume 1 Of the construction of statutes |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | The master is bound by those contracts made by the servant, acting within the scope of a general or special authority | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Master's liability on contracts of servant |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | It is admitted that a servant may justify an assault in defence of his master. | Master & Servant, Volume 1 Miscellaneous rules |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Executor & Administrators, Volume 2 Executors & administrators | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Public wrongs, Volume 7 Public wrongs | |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | I would premise that there is a difference between pleading a Statute, reciting a Statute and counting upon one. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Of pleading statutes & the order of prosecuting under them |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 6 Trespass | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Regularly no public offence can be prosecuted by an individual in his own private right and capacity. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Prosecuting under penal statutes |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | These are a sort of actions called by the name qui tam actions from some Latin words which were in the writ when pleadings were in that language. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Qui tam actions |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 6 Disseisin or disposing | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | not applicable | Baron & Feme | Title Page, Volume 1 Title page half |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | The general principle which regulates this law concerning this branch of it, is the duty of the husband which is to provide necessaries and protection to his wife | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Right of the husband to the property of wife |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 6 Nuisance | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | To the wife's choses in action, viz. notes, bonds &c, the husband acquires a right of disposal or reduction to possession at any time during coverture. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 The wife's choses in action |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Real property & mortgages, Volume 6 Waste | ||
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Chattels real are such personal property as savour of the realty, that is personal property which arises out of or is attached to the realty such as leases &c. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Husband's right to chattels & real property |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Evidence, Volume 6 Evidence | |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | There are several ways by which dower may be barred. I will first consider the method of barring it by jointure. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of the doctrine of barring dower |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Respecting this subject, there are no statutes, the doctrine of paraphernalia rests upon a long succession of judicial decisions. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of paraphernalia |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Of this branch of the subject, I shall give but a slight outline at present. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of the wife's separate property |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Mr. Reeve is of the opinion that by marriage, the husband gains no more authority over the wife than the wife gains over the husband, altho' he is well aware that a difference | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of the dominion of the husband over the wife |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | It is laid down as a general principle that husband & wife cannot contract together. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Power of husband & wife to contract |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Law in its most significant and extensive meaning is strictly a rule of action, and when thus defined applies to every species of conduct; of Law, however, thus understood, there are several kinds. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Of law of Municipal law |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould, James | Municipal law, Volume 1 Rules of interpretation of laws | |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | It will be recollected that the general rule is that the wife's contracts are void; still there are cases where she may be bound. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 When a wife can bind herself by contract |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould, James | The general principle by this the law as to this branch of the subject is regulated is founded on the husband's duty to maintain and protect his wife. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of the husband's right to wife's estate |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | The next private relation of which we are to treat is that of parent and child, being the immediate consequence of the former. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Parent & child |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | An infant or minor is a person under the age of 21 years, a period at which full age is attained for almost all purposes, at which time they are emancipated from the power of their parents. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Of the disabilities of infants |
| 1802-01-01 to 1802-12-31 | Gould and Reeve | It is generally true that the contracts of infants are not binding upon them. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Of the contracts of infants |