www.vtbar.org
Hemingway v. Shatney, 152 Vt. 600, 603-604
(1989).
129
Cooper, Institutes, 73-74, 275; Hubbard v.
Manwell, 60 Vt. 235 (1888); MacDonough-Web-
ster Lodge No. 26 v. Wells, 175 Vt. 382 (2003).
The first application of the principle in the re-
cords of the Vermont Supreme Court was Doe ex
dem. Pearsal v. Thorp, 1 D.Chip. 92 (1797).
130
Cooper, Institutes, 104-105; 27 V.S.A. § 301.
131
Cooper, Institutes, 373; V.R.C.P. 65.
132
James Barrett & Co. v. Hall, 1 Aik. 269, 271
(1826); Cooper, Institutes, 609, Cooper in his
notes found this a repellant and demoralizing
idea, and argued in his notes that the rule should
be recharacterized as caveat venditor. “It is a dis-
grace to the law that such maxim should be ad-
opted, and I rejoice to see that the good sense
of the South Carolina bench has revolted at it.”
Cooper, Institutes, 610-611.
133
James Barrett & Co. v. Hall, 1 Aik. at 272.
134
Abbott v. Mills, 3 Vt. 521, 527 (1831).
135
Cooper, Institutes, 69.
136
own of Burlington v. Fosby, 6 Vt. 83, 90-91
(1834).
137
Cooper, Institutes, 215.
138
The full text of the Senatus Consultum Mar-
cianum was discovered in 1640 engraved on a
copper plate, in the imperial library at Vien-
na. Previously it had been kept in the kingdom
of Naples. Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster
Longsdorf, James Christopher Cahill, The Cyclo-
pedic Law Dictionary (Chicago: Callaghan and
Company, 1922), 928. See also John Taylor, Ele-
ments of the Civil Law (Cambridge: Charles Bath-
hurst, 1786), 546-584.
139
Leslie moved to Missouri right after this de-
cision was issued, and became a leading lawyer
in St. Louis for many years, noted for his cross-
examination skills and for being able to try cas-
es while in his cups with wit, sarcasm, and iro-
ny. William Van Ness Bay, Reminiscences of the
Bench and Bar of Missouri (St. Louis: F.H. Thomas
and Company, 1878), 349-351.
140
Cooper, Institutes, 404.
141
Baxter v. Vincent, 6 Vt. 614, 615 (1834).
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Catlin v. Lyman & Marsh, 16 Vt. 44, 47-48
(1844).
143
Pierson v. Catlin, 18 Vt. 77, 85 (1846).
144
Griffith v. Fowler, 18 Vt. 390, 394-395 (1846).
145
Shumaker, Longsdorf, Cahill, The Cyclopedia
Law Dictionary, supra, 689.
146
Cooper, Institutes, 328.
147
Meach v. Meach, 24 Vt. 591, 593 (1852).
148
Smith v. Kittredge, 21 Vt. 238, 240-241 (1849).
149
Cooper, Institutes, 326; McDaniels v. Robin-
son, 26 Vt. 316, 336-338 (1854).
150
State v. Conlin, 27 Vt. 318, 320 (1855).
151
Skinner v. Wilder, 38 Vt. 115, 120 (1865).
Then came Alvarez v. Katz, 199 Vt. 510 (2015),
which seems to go the other way in recognizing
the rights of the neighbor to cut the roots and
branches if they interfere with his use of his prop-
erty.
152
Vandeuzer v. Gordon’s Estate, 39 Vt. 111, 121
(1866).
153
Gaines v. Strong’s Estate, 40 Vt. 354, 357
(1867).
154
Davenport v. John G. Shants & Co., 43 Vt.
546, 549 (1871). See Cooper, Institutes, 582.
155
Hard v. Burton, 62 Vt. 314 (1890).
156
Payne v. Sheets, 75 Vt. 335 (1903).
142
lending it at interest, or in making a purchase . .
.” Id., 286.
76
Id., 101. See Catlin v. Lyman & Marsh, 16 Vt.
44, 47-48 (1844).
77
9 V.S.A. § 41a(a) and (b)(5).
78
Cooper, Institutes, 90; 9 V.S.A. § 4451 and fol-
lowing.
79
Cooper, Institutes, 95; 9 V.S.A. § 2453 (con-
sumer fraud); Camp v. Ward, 69 Vt. 286 (1897).
80
Cooper, Institutes, 84-85, 245.
81
Id., 248-249.
82
12 V.S.A. § 181; Hunt v. Spaulding, 108 Vt.
309, 312 (1936); Meach v. Stone, 1 D.Chip. 182,
189 (1814); Jasmin v. Alberico, 135 Vt. 287, 290
(1977).
83
Cooper, Institutes, 249-250; 9A V.S.A. §
2-301.
84
Cooper, Institutes, 280-283; 11 V.S.A. § 3201
et seq.; Roberts v. White, 117 Vt. 573 (1953);
Johnson & Co. v. Marsh and Ufford, 111 Vt. 266,
271 (1940).
85
Cooper, Institutes, 364.
86
12 V.S.A. § 501.
87
Cooper, Institutes, 95-96.
88
Id., 310.
89
Id., 89; 12 V.S.A. § 181.
90
12 V.S.A. § 5803; Cooper, Institutes, 380.
91
Id., 323-338.
92
Id., 299-302.
93
33 V.S.A. §§ 5102, 5204; Cooper, Institutes,
309.
94
Id., 313-314; 13 V.S.A. § 2305.
95
Rinehart Zimmerman, The Law of Obliga-
tions: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradi-
tion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 957;
Cooper, Institutes, 314.
96
Id., 319; Lent v. Huntoon, 143 Vt. 539 (1983);
12 V.S.A. § 5431.
97
Cooper, Institutes, 324-326; 9 V.S.A. § 3061 et
seq.
98
Cooper, Institutes, 387; 13 V.S.A. § 3401.
99
Id., 385-390; 13 V.S.A. §§ 1024(a) (aggravated
assault with deadly weapon); 1804 (counterfeit-
ing), and 3251 et seq. (rape).
100
Cooper, Institutes, 387; 13 V.S.A. § 3251 et
seq.
101
14 V.S.A. § 5.
102
Cooper, Institutes, 113-114.
103
Id., 114-125.
104
Id., 188-189.
105
Id., 117; 14 V.S.A. § 6.
106
14 V.S.A. § 7(a); Cooper, Institutes, 118-119.
107
Id., 124-127.
108
Id., 127-128.
109
15A V.S.A. § 1-104.
110
Cooper, Institutes, 150; 14 V.S.A. § 1952.
112
Cooper, Institutes, 159-160; In re Raymond
Estate, 161 Vt. 544, 547-548 (1994).
112
Cooper, Institutes, 194-196; 14 V.S.A. §§ 311,
314.
113
Cooper, Institutes, 200-207.
114
Id., 215-222.
115
14A V.S.A. § 101 et seq.
116
Cooper, Institutes, 181-184. “Claudius first
gave the legal inheritance of deceased children
to their mothers, in assusasion of their grief for
so great a loss.” Id., 210.
117
Cooper, Institutes, 6-7.
118
Id., 23.
119
Id., 24-25.
120
15 V.S.A. § 1a.
121
Cooper, Institutes, 25; 15 V.S.A. § 301.
122
Cooper, Institutes, 28-37; 15A V.S.A. § 1-102.
123
Cooper, Institutes, 35-37; 12 V.S.A. § 7153.
124
Cooper, Institutes, 69; 18 V.S.A. §§ 5319,
5311.
125
Cooper, Institutes, 88; 19 V.S.A. § 301(8); 24
V.S.A. § 2291.
126
Cooper, Institutes, 89; Hubbard v. Town, 33
Vt. 295, 298-299 (1860).
127
Cooper, Institutes, 86; 27 V.S.A. § 1255.
128
Cooper, Institutes 95; 27 V.S.A. § 342;
157
Bathelder v. Walworth, 85 Vt. 322 (1912). .
State v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc., 153 Vt.
337, 342 (1989).
160
City of Montpelier v. Barnett, 191 Vt. 441, 450
(2012). Justice Dooley took this quote from San-
dars’ translation of the Institutes from 1872.
161
Maine, Ancient Law, 22-24.
162
Judge Wright presented this copy to our law
firm the year she retired, and it hangs on one of
the walls of the office today.
163
M.H. Hoeflich, “Prestige and the value of Ro-
man law books,” in Jan Hallebeek, et al., eds., In-
ter Cives Necnon Peregrinos: Essays in Honor of
Boudewijn Sirks, 322 (Göttingen, Germany: V&R
unipress GmbH, 2014.
158
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