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United States. Circuit Court (Massachusetts)

Created by a federal court rather than a single writer, this author heading points to records from the old U.S. Circuit Court in Massachusetts. It reflects the work of a major early federal tribunal whose proceedings capture legal and civic life in the Commonwealth over more than a century.

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Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851.

Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851.

by Charles G. (Charles Gideon) Davis, United States. Circuit Court (Massachusetts)

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This is a corporate author entry for the United States Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts, an early federal court rather than an individual person. The court was established in 1789 under the first Judiciary Act, operated with changing judicial arrangements in the early republic, and continued until the old U.S. circuit court system was abolished in 1911.

As an author credit in library catalogs, the name is usually attached to published case reports, court rules, opinions, and other official records produced by the court. Those materials are valuable to readers interested in American legal history, federal power in the early United States, and the development of Massachusetts law within the national judiciary.

Because this is an institutional body and not a person, a portrait image is generally not appropriate for the author field.