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DNB

 * Article title: Adair, James (d.1798)
 * Author: Rigg, James McMullen
 * LEAD: ADAIR, JAMES (d. 1798), serjeant-at-law and recorder of London, was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1764, and M.A. in 1767.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2
 * LEAD: ADAIR, JAMES (d. 1798), serjeant-at-law and recorder of London, was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1764, and M.A. in 1767.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2

General

 * Gent. Mag. lxviii. part ii. 720–1
 * Chalmers's Biog. Dict.
 * Almon's Anecdotes (1797), i. 82–92
 * Junius printed by Woodfall (1872), iii. 380 et seq.

Cites

 * State Trials, xxv. 1320 et seq.

Works

 * Thoughts on the Dismission of Officers, civil and military, for their conduct in Parliament, 1764, 8vo.
 * Observations on the Power of Alienation in the Crown before the first of Queen Anne, supported by precedents, and the opinions of many learned judges, together with some remarks on the conduct of Administration respecting the case of the Duke of Portland, 1786, 8vo.
 * Discussions of the Law of Libels, 1786, 8vo.