 | Sir William Blackstone - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 604 pages
...number of books of the said work, exposed to sale at a reasonable price. That before the reign " of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copy-right of their books, and to assign the same " for valuable consideration, and to settle them in family set" tlements, for the provision... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - Copyright - 1834 - 186 pages
...legislative authority. In Tonson v. Collins, the jury found a special verdict, " t f hat before the reign of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copy-right of their books, and to assign the same for valuable consideration, and to settle them in family settlements, for the provision of... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...been perpetual, and its perpetuity seems to nave been undisputed, in this country till the reign of Queen Anne. It was usual ' to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of ' their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valu' able considerations, and to make them the subject of family *... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - Copyright - 1840 - 188 pages
...special verdict in " Miller t>. Taylor " (1769), it was found as a fact, "that before the reign of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and to make them the subject of family settlements."... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 362 pages
...special verdict in " Miller t>. Taylor," (1769,) it was found as a fact, " that before the reign of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and to make them the subject of family settlements."... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...special verdict in " Miller ยป. Taylor," (1769,) it was found as a fact, " that before the reign of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and to make them the subject of family settlements."... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Copyright - 1847 - 490 pages
...law in the author and his assigns.i The special verdict in this case found that before the reign of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and to make the same the subject of family... | |
 | Sir James Stephen, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1848 - 356 pages
...special verdict in " Miller r. Taylor," (I769,) it was found as a fact, " that before the reigu of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors the perpetual copyright of their books, and to assigu the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and to make them the subject of family... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 354 pages
...special verdict in " Miller ti. Taylor," (1769,) it was found as a fact, " that before the reign of Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and to make them the subject of family settlements."... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...The special verdict in this case of Millar v. Taylor found it as a fact, " that before the reign of Queen " Anne it was usual to purchase from authors...perpetual copyright of their ' ' books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable considerations, and "to make them the subject of family settlements;"... | |
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Taylor it was found, by the special verdict, "that before the reign of her late majesty, Queen Anne, it was usual to purchase from authors the perpetual copyright of their books, and to assign the same from hand to hand for valuable consideration, and... 
