 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1834 - 816 pages
...Yeales, in aid of his opinion, relied much upon that statute: arguing that from the title, which is an " act for the encouragement of learning by vesting the...the authors or purchasers of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" and from the provision in the act, that the sole right should be vested,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Great Britain - 1880 - 354 pages
...write, on the other, were scarcely more distinct with us, until the passing, in the year 1710, of " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting...books in, the authors or purchasers of such copies." 1 The right is limited to fourteen years, and it is conditional on the book being registered in Stationers'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...to enter at what time they should In the year 1709, being the 8th of Queen Anne, an act was made ' for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the...the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.' The preamble to this law stated that printers, booksellers, and other persons... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Burrow - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 650 pages
...namely, by vesting the copy in the author and publisher during a certain time. The title is, " an " act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting...authors or purchasers of *' such copies, during the time therein mentioned :" find by the enacting clause, there is a right given in those already printed,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1813 - 600 pages
...interested, and the reasons which appear to justify such construction. The title of the Act is, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting...the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." The preamble states : " Whereas printers, booksellers, and other persons,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 808 pages
...works printed and published, as expressed in the Act passed in the 8th of queen Anne, intitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting...copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of auch copies, during the times therein mentioned," and in the Act passed in the 4>lst year of his present... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 738 pages
...; viz. It appeared, that by an Act of parliament, passed in the 8th of queen Anne, intituled, « An Act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors and purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' u was, amongst other things, enacted,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 726 pages
...and in the 15ih and 41st years of his present Majesty, lor the encouragement of Learning, by vexing the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies, and for other purposes therein mentioned ; and to report, whether any and what Alterations are requisite... | |
 | John Erskine - Law - 1824 - 602 pages
...the judgment of the House of Lords, thus: " That although, by the act of the 8th Anne, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting...the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the terms therein mentioned, no person printing or reprinting any book without consent, as in the said... | |
 | 1828 - 746 pages
...multiply each book or copy to what quantity he pleases. “They also contended, that the act of Anne vests the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies during the times therein limited, but only during that limited time, and under the terms prescribed by the act.... | |
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