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]

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.

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]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, Thomas Walter" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 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.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, Thomas Walter". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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