This document records enslaved persons or free people of colour. It contains the historical language of enslavement as written by the parties and clerks of the court; that language is presented as the document's own, as evidence, and is not the voice of this archive.
Abstract
January 2, 1773 Information of Alexander Donaldson, John Wood, and James Meurose, arguing that the pursuer has no common-law property in published literary works
Appendix
- Act of Parliament (8 Anne, c. 19): An Act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
