Edward Jacob (c. 1795–1841) was an English barrister and legal writer.

Life

The son of

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, he was educated at

Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

. He graduated with a BA in 1816 at

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

, as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman. He was subsequently elected Fellow of his college, proceeded MA in 1819, and was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

Lincoln's Inn The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...

on 28 June of that year. Jacob practised in the

chancery court The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid a slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of equ ...

, and was appointed a

King's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or ...

on 27 December 1834. He died on 15 December 1841.

Works

With John Walker, Jacob edited ''Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery during the time of Lord-chancellor Eldon, 1819, 1820'', 2 vols. 1821–3; and by himself; a volume of similar reports for 1821 and 1822, published in 1828. He also published with additions a second edition of Roper Stote Donnison Roper's ''Treatise of the Law of Property arising from the relation between Husband and Wife'', 1826. This work was the basis for the ''Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife'' (1849) of John Edward Bright.''A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly Founded Upon Roper's'' [...] (1849), archive.org.
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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacob, Edward 1790s births 1841 deaths English barristers English legal writers Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 19th-century English lawyers