Ry. & Mood. - Ryan & Moody's Nisi Prius Reports (England and Wales)
Forming part of the English Reports, Volume 171.
Published from 1823 to 1826.
The Dictionary of National Biography wrote of Edward Ryan (1793-1875) as follows:
"[O]n 23 June 3817 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and went the Oxford circuit. His acquaintance with Herschel led him to join the Royal Astronomical Society in February 1820. In 1826 he was appointed a puisne judge of the supreme court of Calcutta and was knighted. He was promoted to the chief-justiceship of ... Bengal in 1833.... In January 1843 he re- signed his office and returned to England, and on 10 June 1843 was sworn a privy councillor, so that the country might have the benefit of his experience as a judge in cases of Indian appeals to the judicial com- mittee of the privy council, a duty which he discharged until November 1865. He died at Dover on 22 Aug. 1875. Ryan was the author of ' Reports of Cases at Nisi Prius, in the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and on the Oxford and Western Circuits, 1823-27, and with Sir William Oldnall Russell he published Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration and Decided by the Twelve Judges of England from the year 1799 (to) 1825."
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