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The common law in the similitude of a tree – Vintage Print

The common law in the similitude of a tree, c1878. — historic print
The common law in the similitude of a tree, c1878.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: The common law in the similitude of a tree, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rather than showing a landscape or a portrait, this print uses a tree as a diagram, with its trunk and branches standing for the common law and each limb representing a branch of legal principle. Tree-shaped charts like this, often called legal trees, have a long history in European legal teaching, where they helped students see how rules related to one another. The record dates the print to about 1878 and carries a U.S. copyright deposit number. The publisher name, Cook & Co., comes from an unverified shelflist card, so it should be treated with caution.

Created / publishedc1878.
Medium1 print.
Notes3842 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Cook & Co. On PGA card: No. 3842 [?] [copy] 2.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,197 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176807

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