The Judge Joseph Wissler Collection documents his fifty-five year career as a lawyer and judge. He recorded and categorized criminal court cases in a handwritten volume. Two scrapbooks contain his certificate of admittance to the Lancaster County Courts, letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings about criminal cases.
Admin/Biographical History
Joseph Buch Wissler was born in Clay Township, Lancaster County on 7 August 1892. Wissler attended Lititz High School and later graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. He earned his law degree from Harvard University. Wissler became a member of the Lancaster Bar Association, of which he was president in 1964 and 1965. He returned to practicing law as a local attorney after holding the position of District Attorney of Pennsylvania from 1924 to 1928. In 1941, Wissler was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and served in that position for twenty-nine years. Judge Wissler served in the law profession for over fifty-five years. Phi Beta Kappa of Franklin and Marshall College made Judge Wissler an honorary member in 1950 and the college presented him with an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1952. He was also a member of the Lancaster Tucquan Club from 1949 to 1969.
Le beau-pledeur. A book of entries, containing declarations, informations and other select and approved pleadings: with special verdicts and demurrers, in most actions, real, personal, and mixt, which have been argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster. Together with faithful references to the most authentick printed law-books now extant, where the cases of these entries are reported; and a more copious and useful table than hath been hitherto printed in any book of entries. The whole comprehending the very art and method of good pleading
Charter to William Penn, and laws of the province of Pennsylvania, passed between the years 1682 and 1700, preceded by Duke of York's laws in force from the year 1676 to the year 1682, with an Appendix containing laws relating to the organization of the provincial courts and historical matter
iv, 614 p. front. (port.) illus., facsims. (part fold.) 25 cm.
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In pocket of volume is a "Fac-simile of the charter granted by Charles the Second to William Penn for the 'province of Pensilvania,' engraved from the original on file in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth."
Register of law publications form Hilary term, 1788, to Easter term, 1790; Trinity term, 1790; Michaelmas, 1790; Hilary, 1791; law books published by W. Clarke and sons (32, 8 p. at end of v. 1)--Register of law publications Easter term, 31. Geo. III; Trinity term, 31. Geo. III.; Michaelmas term, 32. Geo. III., 1791; Hilary term, 32. Geo. III., 1792 (26 p. at end of v. 2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS library wants vol. 2.
Bound with An introductory lecture to a course of law lectures by James Wilson...Philadelphia: T. Dobson, M,DCC
Contents
v. 1. Cases of the commendams before the Privy Council, in 16. Jac. I. Vindication of the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, with the judgment given by King James on occasion of the controversy between Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and Lord Coke. Lord Chief Justice Reeve's instructions to his nephew concerning the study of the law. Sir James Marriott's argument in giving judgment in the Court of Admiralty in the case of the ship Columbus. The Duke of Newcastle's letter to Monsieur Michell, in answer to the Prussian memorial, respecting the capture of vessels and property belonging to neutral powers in time of war. An argument of Lord Bacon, when attorney general, on the writ de rege inconsulto, in the case of the grant of the office of supersedeas in the Common pleas, 13 James I. Case on the validity of equitable recoveries, with the opinions of several eminent counsel thereon. Opinions of several eminent counsel on the case of Lord Clive's jaghire. Lord Hale's preface to Rolle's Abridgment. Case of Perrin and Blake in the King's Bench, with the arguments of the judges therein. Case of the Duchess of Kingston's will made in France, with the opinion of Monsieur Target thereon. Case of Buckworth and Thirkell in K.B. on a case in replevin, reserved at the Assizes for Cambridge, 25 Geo. 3. Case of Willoughby and Willoughby in chancery, on priority of mortgage debts. Reading of the law of uses, by Serjeant Carthew, at New Inn, Michaelmas.
Bound with : Old roads of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by J. D. Hemminger ; The white man's way / by Charles F. Hines ; [First Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pa.] : a historical sketch / John B. Landis ; The old stone meeting-house / by John B. Landis ; Exercises in commemoration of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / History of the public schools of Carlisle : read before the Hamilton Library Historical Association, February 19, 1909 / by Annie B. Hantch; Annual report of the president of the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pa. ; Local history : old roads of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by J. D. Hemminger ; Washingtonburg / by Christian P. Humrich ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon ; John Brown's raid / by W. J. Shearer ; Catalogue and circular of White Hall Academy for 1852-3.
