Danby Pickering ( fl. 1769) was an English legal writer.

Biography

Born circa 1716 (christened 17 March that year),Parish records the son of Danby Pickering of

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by his wife Mary (née Horson), Pickering was admitted, on 28 June 1737, a student at

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, where he was called to the bar on 8 May 1741. He married Ann Walter or Walten on 12 July 1736, and died on 24 March 1781.

Works

Pickering re-edited the original four volumes of ''Modern Reports'' (1682–1703), with the supplements of 1711, 1713, and 1716, under the title ''Modern Reports, or Select Cases adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, since the Restoration of His Majesty King Charles II to the Fourth of Queen Anne'', London, 1757. He also edited Sir Henry Finch's ''Law, or a Discourse thereof in Four Books'', London, 1759. His major work was an abridgment of the ''

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'', entitled '' The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to the end of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain'', Cambridge, 1762–9, 24 vols.; continued with his name on the title-page to 1807, and thereafter without his name until 1809. The first volume of the series starts in the year 1225, or 9 Hen III, when Henry III confirmed Magna Carta. The Latin of the early years is translated into English in a dual column structure. The dual column is employed as well for the translations from Norman French, which continue throughout the reign of Edward IV. Although he was nominally a French king, Richard III appears to have governed (while he did) in the English tongue.see Vol 4

Bibliography

Statutes at Large: * Edition by Danby Pickering
Volume 1 – Magna Charta to 14 Edward III – 1225 to 1340
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Volume 2 – 15 Edward III to 13 Henry IV – 1341 to 1411
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Volume 3 – 1 Henry V to 22 Edward IV – 1413 to 1482–83
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Volume 4 – 1 Richard III to 31 Henry VIII – 1483–84 to 1539
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Volume 5 – 32 Henry VIII to 7 Edward VI – 1540 to 1552-3

Volume 6 – 1 Mary to 35 Elizabeth – 1554 to 1592–93
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Volume 7 – 39 Elizabeth to 12 Charles II – 1597–98 to 1660

Volume 8 – 12 Charles II to Last James II – 1660 to 1685
(James II did not call any parliaments after 1687)
Volume 9 – 1 William and Mary to 8 William III – 1688 to 1695–96
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Volume 10 – 8 William III to 2 Anne – 1696–97 to 1703

Volume 11 – 2 Anne to 8 Anne – 1703 to 1709
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Volume 12 – 8 Anne to 12 Anne – 1709 to 1712

Volume 13 – 12 Anne to 5 George I 1712 to 1718–19
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Volume 14 – 5 George I to 9 George I – 1718–19 to 1722–23
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Volume 15 – 9 George I to 2 George II – 1722–23 to 1728–29
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Volume 16 – 2 George II to 9 George II – 1728–29 to 1735–36

Volume 17 – 9 George II to 15 George II – 1735–36 to 1741–42

Volume 18 – 15 George II to 20 George II – 1741–42 to 1746–47

Volume 19 – 20 George II to 23 George II – 1746–47 to 1749–50

Volume 20 – 23 George II to 26 George II – 1749–50 to 1753
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Volume 21 – 26 George II to 30 George II – 1753 to 1756–57
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Volume 22 – 30 George II to 32 George II – 1756–67 to 1758–59
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Volume 23 – 33 George II to 1 George III – 1759–60 to 1760–61

Volume 24 – Index

Volume 25 – 2 George III – 1761–62
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and 3 George III – 1762–63
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Volume 26 – 4 George III 1763–64
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and 5 George III – 1765
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Volume 27 – 6 George III – 1765–66
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and 7 George III – 1766–67
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Volume 28 – 8 George III – 1767–68
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9 George III – 1768–69
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and 10 George III – 1770
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Volume 29 – 11 George III – 1770–71
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and 12 George III – 1772

Volume 30 – 13 George III – 1772–73
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and 14 George III – 1774
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Volume 31 – 15 George III – 1774–75
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and 16 George III – 1775–76
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and 17 George III – 1776–77

Volume 32 – 18 George III – 1777–78
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and 19 George III – 1778–79

Volume 33 – 20 George III – 1779–80
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and 21 George III – 1780–81

Volume 34 – 22 George III – 1781–82
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and 23 George III – 1782–83
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and 24 George III – 1783–84

Volume 35 – 25 George III – 1785
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and 26 George III – 1786

Volume 36 – 27 George III – 1787
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and 28 George III – 1787–88
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and 29 George III – 1789

Volume 37 – 30 George III 1790 and 31 George III – 1790–91 and 32 George III – 1792

Volume 38 – Index from 1 George III (1760) to 32 George III (1792)
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Volume 39, Part 1 – 33 George III – 1792–93
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and 34 George III – 1794

Volume 40, Part 1 – 35 George III – 1794–95and Part 2 – 36 George III - 1795–96

Volume 41, Part 1 – 37 George III – 1796–97
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and Part 2 – 38 George III – 1797–98

Volume 42, Part 1 – 39 George III – 1798–99

Volume 43, Part 1 – 41 George III (UK) – 1801

Volume 44, Part 1 – 43 George III – 1802–03

Volume 45, Part 1 – 44 George III – 1803–04

Volume 46 – 46 George III – 1806

References

* * Wilfrid Prest. William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. 2008
p 113
*Miles Oscar Price and Harry Bitner. "Pickering's Statutes at Large". Effective Legal Research: A Practical Manual of Law Books and Their Use. Prentice-Hall, Inc. New York. 1953. Page 278
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*Moys (ed). Manual of Law Librarianship
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G K Hall & Co. 1987. Page 268. *Mersky and Dunn. Fundamentals of Legal Research
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Foundation Press. 2002. Page 506. *William Holdsworth. A History of English Law. Meuthen & Co Ltd. London. First published 1938. Meuthen & Co., Sweet & Maxwell

Volume 11. Pages 303 and 305 to 307. Meuthen & Co., Sweet & Maxwell

Volume 12. Pages 75, 80 and 81. *(1771) 43 The Monthly Revie
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and (1763) 28 The Monthly Revie
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and 244 *(1972
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Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 335 *Charles Purton Cooper. An Account of the Most Important Public Records of Great Britain. Baldwin and Craddock. London. 1832. Page
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to 137. From The Statutes of the Realm, see pp xxiv and xxv. *Walker. A Legal History of Scotland. 1988
Volume 5
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