Robert Nelson -- Bought at Chancellor Nelson's sale by James Semple 1819

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A Collection of Modern Entries, or, Select Pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer ... : To Which is Added a Collection of Writs in Most Cases Now in Practice. With Two Tables, One of the Names of the Cases, and the Other of the Pleadings and Writs volume 2

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1792

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Robert Nelson was the fourth professor of law and police at the College of William & Mary. He assumed the role in 1813 after the death of his uncle, William Nelson, and held the position until his death in 1818. James Semple was appointed the fifth professor of law at the College of William & Mary in 1819 and would remain in that role until his death in 1834.