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Raleigh, [N.C.]: Printed for Dirk Lindeman, 1826. (illustrator). First Edition. Raleigh, [N.C.]: Printed for Dirk Lindeman, 1826. The Foundation of North Carolina Case Law: Hawks's Scarce 1826 Legal Digest, with Distinguished New Bern Provenance Hawks, Francis L. [1798-1866], Digester. [Lilly, Lambert]. A Digested Index of the Reported Cases Adjudged in the Courts of North-Carolina, From the Year 1778 to 1826. Raleigh: Printed for Dirk Lindeman, 1826. Octavo, 8" x 5"; (20 x 13 cm). vii, 502 pp. Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, leather lettering piece to spine. Moderate scuffing to boards, wear to spine ends and corners. Joints cracked but boards secure. Faint early ownership stamp ("David Bell") to front board; early ownership inscription ("W.H. Washington, Esq. / Solicitor / Newbern / Nov. 12th 1839") to front free endpaper; embossed notarial seal ("Robert F. Lehman / Newbern") to title page. Text uniformly toned with light foxing throughout. A very good, sound copy. $450. * First edition. This work stands as the foundational digest for North Carolina case law, serving as the vital legal tool used by nineteenth-century attorneys to navigate early state precedents. It is the first book of its kind produced in North Carolina, digesting state reports from Martin through Hawks (1796-1826). The compiler, Francis L. Hawks (1798-1866), served as the North Carolina state reporter from 1820 to 1826. Hawks went on to become a major intellectual and cultural figure in the antebellum South, later serving as the first president of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University). While some early bibliographies incorrectly attribute this work to "Lambert Lilly" (a pseudonym Hawks used for a series of children's historical books), it is entirely Hawks's legal work. This specific copy boasts an exceptional, unbroken chain of regional provenance linking it directly to major political and judicial figures in nineteenth-century New Bern, then a vital North Carolina legal hub. The early inscription notes the ownership of William Henry Washington (1813-1860), a prominent New Bern attorney, state solicitor, and later a Whig U.S. Congressman. The later embossed notarial seal belongs to Robert F. Lehman (1830-1876), another distinguished New Bern lawyer who served as a state senator and a federal judge. An important, scarce artifact of early American jurisprudence. Cohen 5583. OCLC locates only 5 copies in North American law libraries (LC, Duke, UN.