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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For his grandson, the English cricketer and judge, (1828–1899), see <a href="Joseph_William_Chitty" title="Joseph William Chitty">Joseph William Chitty</a>.</div>
<p><b>Joseph Chitty</b> (12 March 1776 – 17 February 1841) was an <a href="England" title="England">English</a> <a href="Lawyer" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a> and legal <a href="Writer" title="Writer">writer</a>, author of some of the earliest practitioners' texts and founder of an important dynasty of lawyers.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_practice">Life and practice</h2></div>
<p>He was himself the son of a Joseph Chitty (1729–1795), and his wife, Sarah (<i>née</i> Cartwright). He initially practised as a <a href="Special_pleader" title="Special pleader">special pleader</a> before being <a href="Called_to_the_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the bar">called to the bar</a> by the <a href="Middle_Temple" title="Middle Temple">Middle Temple</a> on 28 June 1816. He never became a <a href="King's_Counsel" title="King's Counsel">KC</a> but built a huge junior practice at 1 Pump Court and published many books.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Chitty was also <a href="Pupillage" title="Pupillage">pupil master</a> to a generation of lawyers, including:
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<ul><li><a href="John_Walter_Hulme" title="John Walter Hulme">John Walter Hulme</a>, his co-author and son-in-law, and the first <a href="Chief_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Hong_Kong" title="Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong">Chief Justice of Hong Kong</a></li>
<li><a href="Thomas_Starkie" title="Thomas Starkie">Thomas Starkie</a><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Edward_Alderson_(judge)" title="Edward Alderson (judge)">Edward Hall Alderson</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Thomas_Noon_Talfourd" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Noon Talfourd">Thomas Noon Talfourd</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Henry_Havelock" title="Henry Havelock">Henry Havelock</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p>In fact, at the time, the <a href="Inns_of_Court" title="Inns of Court">Inns of Court</a> were in decline and Chitty organised lectures and <a href="Moot_court" title="Moot court">moots</a>, in 1810 being given permission to use the hall of <a href="Lincoln's_Inn" title="Lincoln's Inn">Lincoln's Inn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Despite his successful practice, by 1831, Chitty had amassed extensive debts that were costing almost £2,000 per year to service. Further, Chitty's health was in decline and he was becoming increasingly anxious about his parlous state. Much of his energy became taken up in avoiding the attentions of his creditors. He retired from practice in 1833 but continued to publish. He died in <a href="London" title="London">London</a><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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<p>He married Elizabeth Woodward, and they had eight children. Of those, Joseph Chitty the younger, <a href="Thomas_Chitty_(lawyer)" title="Thomas Chitty (lawyer)">Thomas Chitty</a>, <a href="Edward_Chitty" title="Edward Chitty">Edward Chitty</a>, and Thompson Chitty were lawyers and legal writers:<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Joseph the younger and Thompson were the first editors of the standard textbook <i><a href="Chitty_on_Contracts" title="Chitty on Contracts">Chitty on Contracts</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ConC_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ConC-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Judge <a href="Joseph_William_Chitty" title="Joseph William Chitty">Joseph William Chitty</a> was a grandson (son of Thomas Chitty).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_Chitty">By Chitty</h3></div>
<ul><li>Chitty, T. (1799) <i>Treatise on Bills of Exchange</i></li>
<li>— (1808) <i>Precedents of Pleading</i></li>
<li>— (1811a) <i>Treatise on the Law of Apprentices</i></li>
<li>— (1811b) <i>Treatise on the Game Laws</i></li>
<li>— (1812) <i>Treatise on the Law of Nations</i></li>
<li>— (1818) <i>Treatise on Commercial Law</i></li>
<li>— (1820) <i><a href="Treatise_on_the_Law_of_the_Prerogatives_of_the_Crown" title="Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown">Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown</a></i></li>
<li>— (1826) <i>A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law</i></li>
<li>— (1829–37) <i>Statutes of Practical Utility</i></li>
<li>— (1833) <i>The Practice of the Law in All its Principal Departments</i></li></ul>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFHamilton1887" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Hamilton, John Andrew (1887). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chitty, Joseph"><a class="external text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Chitty,_Joseph">"Chitty, Joseph"&nbsp;</a></span>. In <a href="Leslie_Stephen" title="Leslie Stephen">Stephen, Leslie</a> (ed.). <i><a href="Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. Vol.&nbsp;10. London: Smith, Elder &amp; Co.</cite> </span>
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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFLobban" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Lobban, Michael. "Chitty, Joseph, the elder (1775–1841)". <i><a href="Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online&nbsp;ed.). Oxford University Press. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F5336">10.1093/ref:odnb/5336</a>.</cite> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/">Wikipedia Library</a> access or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFSimpson,_A._W._B.1984" class="citation book cs1">Simpson, A. W. B. (1984). <a href="Biographical_Dictionary_of_the_Common_Law" title="Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law"><i>Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law</i></a>. London: Butterworths. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>040651657X</bdi>.</cite></li></ul>
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