John Indermaur

{{short description|British solicitor}}

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John Indermaur (24 November 1851 – 19 July 1925) was a British lawyer and legal writer, with his writing focus was on common law. He is known for having written An Epitome of Leading Common Law Cases in 1875,{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/anepitomeleadin01indegoog|title=AN EPITOME OF LEADING COMMON LAW CASES|last=JOHN INDERMAUR|date=29 June 1875|via=Internet Archive}} Principles of Common Law in 1876, and The Student's Guide to Trusts and Partnerships in 1885.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/studentsguidetos00inde#page/n9/mode/2up|title=The student's guide to specific performance and mortgages, two of the equity subjects at the bar final examination|website=archive.org|date=1886 }}{{cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/div-classtitleprinciples-of-the-common-law-originally-written-by-indermaurjohn-completely-re-written-and-much-enlarged-by-wilsherea-m-ma-llb-of-grayandaposs-inn-and-the-western-circuit-barrister-at-law-third-edition-london-sweet-andamp-maxwell-ltd-1932-lxvi-and-847-pp-30s-netdiv/B0E030EC30BF7A728CFA0D65B0F991FD|title=Principles of the Common Law. Originally written by IndermaurJohn. Completely re-written and much enlarged by WilshereA. M., M.A., LL.B., of Gray's Inn and the Western Circuit, Barrister-at-Law, Third edition. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd. 1932. lxvi and 847 pp. (30s. net.)|first=T. E.|last=L|journal=The Cambridge Law Journal|date=November 1932 |volume=4|issue=3|pages=421|via=Cambridge Core|doi=10.1017/S0008197300132489}}

Indermaur qualified as a solicitor in 1874. He and his law partner, Charles Thwaites, had a law firm on Chancery Lane in the City of London and began teaching and writing about law together in 1884.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AjFHAQAAMAAJ&q=the+student%27s+guide+to+common+law+indermaur&pg=PR18|title=Law Times, the Journal and Record of the Law and Lawyers|date=29 June 2017|publisher=Office of The Law times|via=Google Books}} Other legal works written by Indermaur include A Manual of the Principals of Equity, The Student's Guide to Procedure and Evidence, and Principals and Practice in Matters Appertaining to Conveyancing.

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He was born on 24 November 1851 in Lyncombe, Bath to John George Indermaur and Mary Staple. His father's family, the In der Maur, descended from Switzerland. He was married to Jessie Margaret Dickson. Indermaur lived in a large town house on Holland Road in London.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Ql5-AmIP94C&dq=indermaur+villa&pg=PA1046|title = Royal Blue Book: Court and Parliamentary Guide|year = 1904}} In 1888, he owned Augill Castle.https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/sites/default/files/vch-stainmore-final.pdf In 1904, he was listed in the Royal Blue Book: Court and Parliamentary Guide. He died on 19 July 1925 in Camberwell House in Surrey, England.