England · Book or treatise
A 1623 manual of English court procedure and fees. Justice Alito cited its subpoena duces tecum fee in his Carpenter dissent as evidence of the writ’s historical familiarity. Printed page 79 is verified at PDF page 101.
Requested text available. Collection target: London, Beniamin Fisher, 1623. The repository identifies STC 20163; the citing opinion does not identify a particular 1623 printing.
Thomas Powell · 1623
Scan courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, via Internet Archive; call number AHI-1494. Apparently complete on sampled collation, with original damage and pagination errors. The citing opinion identifies the 1623 work but not a particular printing or physical copy. Original pagination errors make PDF page numbers the safest general navigation method; printed page 79 is independently verified at PDF page 101. The scan appears complete on sampled collation, but the title-page subtitle has a small loss and the entire volume has not been proofread. Repository OCR is substantially imperfect and should not be quoted without checking the page image.
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Samuel A. Alito Jr. · Dissent, joined by Justice Thomas
Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296, 363 (2018) (Alito, J., dissenting).
Alito cites Powell’s listed subpoena duces tecum fee as evidence that the writ was familiar by 1623. The underlying page lists the writ under Chancery decree fees at seven shillings and two pence. The claim about familiarity is Alito’s inference in dissent, not a holding of the Court.
The title page confirms London, Beniamin Fisher, 1623. The repository identifies STC 20163; Alito’s citation does not identify a particular printing.
Printed page 79 is PDF page 101. Other printed-page labels are withheld because the volume contains original numbering errors.
Carpenter cites this fee entry in Alito’s dissent. The inference that the writ was familiar by 1623 belongs to the dissent and is not a holding of the Court.