* 1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer ( d. 1907 )

The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary ( from 1842 ) is " chipmonk ," but " chipmunk " appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.

* 1842 – Mary Rudge, English chess master ( d. 1919 )

* 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer ( d. 1842 )

* 1842 – Alfred Marshall, English economist ( d. 1924 )

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

* 1842 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer ( d. 1900 )

* 1815 – Grace Darling, English heroine ( d. 1842 )

* 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1919 )

John Bellenden Ker (? 1765 – 1842 ), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were actually written in ' Low Saxon ', a hypothetical early form of Dutch.

* 1842 – Grace Darling, English heroine ( b. 1815 )

* February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter ( b. 1842 )

English composer ( b. 1842 )

* June 30 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1842 )

* March 13 – Charles Lapworth, English geologist ( b. 1842 )

** Charlotte Dacre, English author ( d. 1842 )

* January 24 – Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist ( b. 1842 )

* April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect ( b. 1842 )

Shrapnel is named after Major-General Henry Shrapnel ( 1761 – 1842 ), an English artillery officer, whose experiments, initially conducted in his own time and at his own expense, culminated in the design and development of a new type of artillery shell.

* Lady Gertrude Stock ( 1842 – 1893 ), English novelist

In many European countries ( e. g. France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Italy ) the adjustable spanner is called an " English key " as it was first invented in 1842 by the English engineer Richard Clyburn.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO ( 13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900 ) was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry.

Charles Lapworth ( 20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920 ) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

In 1842 police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzlement case.

Hunt's most famous case came about in 1842 when George Pearson, the chief witness in the case respecting the attempt on the life of Queen Victoria made by John Francis, was brought into court he was incapable of giving his evidence.

The case was finally disposed of by U. S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster and Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, in the course of their negotiations leading to the Webster – Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

When Kunisada I proclaimed himself head of the school ( c. 1842 ), he started signing as Toyokuni, and the next most senior member, Kochoro ( a name also previously used by Kunisada I, but not as his chief gō ), started signing as Kunisada ( Kunisada II, in this case ).

The death of his elder brother, Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, in 1842 gave him a position of greater importance as the natural regent in the case of the accession of his nephew, the young count of Paris.

Following a case beginning in 1983, civil unrest erupted in Wisconsin after the U. S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb ruled on August 21, 1987 that six Ojibwe ( Chippewa ) tribal governments had the treaty right to regulate their members ' hunting and fishing outside of the reservation boundaries, based on federal treaties of 1837 and 1842.

In the first case of Winterbottom v. Wright ( 1842 ), in which Winterbottom, a postal service wagon driver, was injured due to a faulty wheel, attempted to sue the manufacturer Wright for his injuries.

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An example of this occurred in the case of Thomas v Thomas ( 1842 ), where the decision was made that a woman was allowed to reside in a property for £ 1 a year.

An example of this occurred in the case of Thomas v Thomas ( 1842 ), where the decision was made that a woman was allowed to reside in a property for £ 1 a year.

However, in the case of Swift v. Tyson, 41 U. S. 1 ( 1842 ), the Supreme Court had held that the federal courts need not also apply the court-made common law of the states.

Until 1938, federal courts in America followed the doctrine set forth in the 1842 case of Swift v. Tyson.

The first case was described by Carl F. Rokitansky in 1842.

In 1842 Berry sued for the freedom of her daughter Lucy Ann Berry, based on partus ( the child is born into the status of the mother ), which she won in 1844 in a case argued by Edward Bates, the future U. S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.

The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Prigg v. Pennsylvania in 1842 ( 16 Peters 539 )— that state authorities could not be forced to act in fugitive slave cases, but that national authorities must carry out the national law — was followed by legislation in Massachusetts ( 1843 ), Vermont ( 1843 ), Pennsylvania ( 1847 ) and Rhode Island ( 1848 ), forbidding state officials from aiding in enforcing the law and refusing the use of state jails for fugitive slaves.

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At common law, duties were formerly limited to those with whom one was in privity one way or another, as exemplified by cases like Winterbottom v. Wright ( 1842 ).

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Walter v. Lane AC 539, was a judgement of the House of Lords on the question of Authorship under the Literary Copyright Act 1842.

Although the Literary Copyright Act 1842 did not contain a notion of " originality ", the decision in Walter v Lane would later be treated as authority for the notion of " originality " within English Copyright law.

In 1827 he was sent as a pupil to Dr. Thomas Arnold ( 1795 – 1842 ) v., a family friend.

The U. S. Supreme Court ruled, in Prigg v. Pennsylvania ( 1842 ), that states did not have to offer aid in the hunting or recapture of slaves, greatly weakening the law of 1793.

* Commonwealth v. Hunt ( 1842 ) – The Court established that trade unions were not necessarily criminal or conspiring organizations if they did not advocate violence or illegal activities in their attempts to gain recognition through striking.

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* Commonwealth v. Hunt ( 1842 ), disapproving Pullis in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and establishing that unions were not necessarily criminal

* Písně národní v Čechách ( Folk Songs of Bohemia ) ( 1842 – 1845 ); contains 500 songs

In Commonwealth v. Hunt ( 1842 ), Shaw provided an important precedent in labor relations by arguing that members of labor unions were not engaging in criminal conspiracies against their employers.

* Thomas v Thomas ( 1842 ) 2 QB 851

It is not obvious when the Court first equated " house " with " home ", though Prigg v. Pennsylvania 1842 seems to assume " house " means " home ".

* The U. S. Supreme Court rules, in Prigg v. Pennsylvania ( 1842 ), that states do not have to offer aid in the hunting or recapture of slaves, greatly weakening the fugitive slave law of 1793.

Commonwealth v. Hunt ( 1842 ) was a landmark legal decision issued by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions.