Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Lawyer / legislator

W. Rees Davies

fl. 1905 · United Kingdom

British lawyer, active in 1905.

Life and work

  1. 9 March 1905
    Respondent, as King's Advocate, in Gregori Haji Lambrou v. W. Rees Davies, Supreme Court of Cyprus, 9 March 1905 (Cyprus Law Reports 6, 110-121), which Stanley-Price (p. 17) cites for the appeal over the Government's right to confiscate the small seized part of the second Lambousa treasure under the 1874 law; a new law of 1905 then made all antiquities Government property. On Dalton's account (p. 2) the Government appealed against the finders' first-instance success and obtained a reversal.

    NicosiaStanley-Price 2018, p. 17; p. 22Dalton 1906, p. 2

  2. 9 March 1905
    RulingNamed only as the King's Advocate-respondent in the case citation. Dalton's paper of 30 March 1905 says the Government won on appeal and kept the seized treasure; the report itself is unread.

    Stanley-Price 2018, p. 22Dalton 1906, p. 2

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Disputes & the law

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.
  2. 2.Supreme Court of Cyprus (1905). “Gregori Haji Lambrou v. W. Rees Davies as King's Advocate, 9 March 1905”. Cases decided by the Supreme Court of Cyprus on appeal, The Cyprus Law Reports 6, 110-121. Nicosia, Government Printing Press.
  3. 3.Ormonde M. Dalton (1906). “A second silver treasure from Cyprus”. Archaeologia 60, 1-24. Online