Thomas Walter Williams

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Thomas Walter Williams (1763–1833) was an English barrister, known as a legal writer.

Life

He was the son of Walter Williams, a London attorney living in Lamb's Conduit Street, and entered St Paul's School, London on 6 November 1772. He then studied law and was called to the bar, but was not much known as a pleader, his reputation mainly deriving from his writings. He died in 1833.^[1]

Lamb's Conduit Street is a street in Bloomsbury in the West End of London. There are many independent traders along the street. The street is named after William Lambe, in recognition of the £1,500 he gave for the rebuilding of the Holborn Conduit in 1564. The remains of the head of the conduit can be seen on the side of a 1950s building on the corner between Lamb's Conduit Street and Long Yard.

St Paul's School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre (180,000m²) site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London.

Works

Williams wrote:^[1]

A Compendious Digest of the Statute Law from Magna Charta to 27 George III, London, 1787; 3rd edit. 1809, 2 vols.; supplements in 1809 and 1812.
Original Precedents in Conveyancing, London, 1788–1792, 4 vols.; new edit. 1808. Williams is described as of the Inner Temple.^[2]
The whole Law relative to the Duty and Office of a Justice of the Peace, London, 1793–5, 4 vols.; 3rd edit., by Harold Nuttall Tomlins, 1812, 4 vols.
An Abridgment of Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Law during the Reign of George III, London, 1798–1803, 5 vols.
The Practice of the Commissioners, Assessors, and other Officers under the Acts relating to the Assessed Taxes, London, 1804.
A General Dictionary of the Law, London, 1812; new edit. 1816.
The Jurisdiction and the Duties of Justices of the Peace, and Authority of Parish Officers in all matters relating to Parochial Law, London, 1812, 2 vols.; new edit. 1817.
A Compendious and comprehensive Law Dictionary; elucidating the terms and general principles of Law and Equity (1816)^[3]
The Farmer's Lawyer, London, 1819.

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, a person must belong to one of these Inns. It is located in the wider Temple area of the capital, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within the City of London.

Williams also edited the Law Journal between 1804 and 1806 with John Morgan, produced abstracts of acts of parliament, and in 1825 brought out a new edition of The Precedent of Precedents by William Sheppard.^[1]

William Sheppard was an English barrister, known as a legal writer.

Notes

1 2 3 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, Thomas Walter" . Dictionary of National Biography . 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
↑ Thomas Walter Williams (1788). Original Precedents in Conveyancing, Settled and Approved by the Most Eminent Conveyancers, Interspersed with the Observations and Opinions of Counsel Upon Various Intricate Cases: The Whole Selected from the Draughts of Actual Practice, and Now First Published Under the Direction and Immediate Inspection of Thomas Walter Williams. His Majesty's Law Printers.
↑ Thomas Walter Williams (1816). A Compendious and comprehensive Law Dictionary; elucidating the terms and general principles of Law and Equity. J. Harper & Company.

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Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer, writer and critic.

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.

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[DNB-1] 1 2 3 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, Thomas Walter" . Dictionary of National Biography . 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[2] Thomas Walter Williams (1788). Original Precedents in Conveyancing, Settled and Approved by the Most Eminent Conveyancers, Interspersed with the Observations and Opinions of Counsel Upon Various Intricate Cases: The Whole Selected from the Draughts of Actual Practice, and Now First Published Under the Direction and Immediate Inspection of Thomas Walter Williams. His Majesty's Law Printers.

[3] Thomas Walter Williams (1816). A Compendious and comprehensive Law Dictionary; elucidating the terms and general principles of Law and Equity. J. Harper & Company.

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