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Washington: A. & G. Way, 1809.. 53pp. Dbd. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on titlepage (see below), mild foxing. Very good. The New Orleans batture case was one of the bitter controversies of Jefferson's presidency and beyond. Jean Gravier, a major landowner in New Orleans, and then his successor to the property, Edward Livingston, a prominent New Orleans attorney, claimed ownership of a strip of beach (the batture) at New Orleans which had long been used as a common, publicly-accessible boat landing. President Thomas Jefferson took up the case for the city of New Orleans, asserting government ownership up to the high water mark, and had a federal marshal forcibly dispossess Livingston. In 1807, the Louisiana Supreme Court had awarded judgement to Gravier. This resulted in a celebrated, extensively-litigated case over the use of federal power which was bitterly argued, and continued by Gravier's successor in title, Edward Livingston, who battled not only the city of New Orleans but the… Read More