File Description
Title Statement
| Title |
A Complaint of Trespass: DeLancey vs. Woodin: A Digital Edition |
| Author |
Uncredited Recorder |
| Principal |
David Badke |
| Responsibility |
Creation of machine readable text by David Badke Header creation by David Badke Encoded by David Badke |
Edition Statement
First TEI encoded edition
Publication Statement
| Publisher |
University of Victoria |
| Place |
Victoria, British Columbia |
| Date |
August 1, 2004 |
| Availability |
Copyright 2004 by David Badke. This text is freely available for non-commercial use provided the text is distributed with the header information provided. |
Notes Statement
Sworn in 1803, this complaint of trespass by James DeLancey against William Woodin follows the first (unsuccessful) suit by DelLancey (1800-01) to regain possession of the slave named Jack, as described in the pamphlet Opinions Of Several Gentlemen Of The Law, On The Subject Of Negro Servitude, In The Province Of Nova-Scotia (1802). In the complaint, DeLancey seeks damages in the amount of 500 pounds. [David Badke, August 2004]
Source Description
| Title |
A Complaint of Trespass: DeLancey vs. Woodin |
| Author |
Uncredited Recorder |
| Publisher |
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia – Annapolis County case files |
| Place |
Nova Scotia |
| Date |
August 20, 1803 |
| Note | Original text is from the archives of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court - Annapolis case files fonds, reference number RG 39 C (AP) vol. 1 file 2. The transcription was made from a digital image copy the text found at http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/archives.asp?ID=99. |
Encoding Description
| Project | The encoded document is an offshoot of a summer work project conducted by the Special Collections department, McPherson Library, University of Victoria to digitize the printed text. |
| Editorial: Normalization | The spelling from the original text has been retained. |
| Editorial: Quotation | Single quotation marks (apostrophe) have been retained.Double quotation marks have been replaced with markup (the [q] tag). |
| Editorial: Standard Values | Dates marked with the [date] tag have a [value] attribute with the ISO standard yyyy-mm-dd date. |
| Editorial: Interpretation | Biographical, terminological and editorial notes added in the [back] section. These are linked to tagged names via the [key] attribute and to tagged references via the [target] attribute.All tagged personal names have been expanded (where known) and regularized in the [reg] attribute. |
| Tag usage |
[del] Used to mark authorial deletions in the text. |
| Classes |
[lcsh] Library of Congress Subject Headings [nssc] Nova Scotia Supreme Court - Annapolis case files fonds, reference number |
Profile Description
| Language usage |
[en] Canadian English, 19th century, legal |
| Keywords |
Slavery--Law and legislation--Nova Scotia. Blacks--Nova Scotia--History. |
| Class code |
[nssc] RG 39 C (AP) vol. 1 file 2 |
Revision Description
Change 1
| Date |
August 8, 2004 |
| Responsibility |
David Badke |
| Items |
First public release on the Web. |