June 11, 2019
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A Lawyer of "Great Learning and Profoundness" Bridgman, Sir John. Reports of that Grave and Learned Judge, Sir John Bridgman, Knight; Serjeant at Law, Sometime Chief Justice of Chester. To Which are Added Two Exact Tables, The One of the Cases, And the Other of the Principal Matters Therein Contained..... More
A Treatise on Scots Feudal Law Patterned on Justinian Bruce, Alexander [d. 1729]. Principia Juris Feudalis, Institutionum Imperialium Methodo (Quantum Materiae Feudalis Ratio Patitur) Disposita. Accedunt Notae & Observationes Practicae, ad Mores Patrios Tam Antiquos Quam Hodiernos, Singulis Titulis Annexae. Edinburgh: Apud Robertum Freebairn, 1713. [viii], xix, [5], 352 pp..... More
Kent Admired Its "Ability and Perspicuity" Fearne, Charles [1742-1794]. An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises. In this Treatise the Doctrine of the Judgment Delivered by the Court of King's Bench in the Case of Perrin versus Blake, (Since Reversed in the Exchequer Chamber, Which Reversal..... More
Well-Regarded by Mansfield Freeman, Richard [1645 or 46-1710]. Smirke, Edward [1795-1875], Editor. [Hovenden, John Eykyn, Editor]. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench & Common Pleas, From 1670 to 1704. With Notes, References, Marginal Extracts, And a New Index by Edward Smirke, Esq. London: S...... More
Jefferson Owned a Copy of this Digest [Great Britain]. [Court of Common Pleas]. [King's Bench]. Judgements as They Were Upon Solemne Arguments Given in the Upper-Bench and Common-pleas, Upon the Most Difficult Points in All Manner of Actions: Together with the Terms and Number-Rolls, In Which the Same are Entred..... More
Final Edition of a Popular Early Guide to the Daily Practice of English Law [G.T., Of Staple Inn]. The Practick Part of the Law: Shewing the Office of an Attorney, And a Guide for Solicitors in All the Courts of Westminster: Viz. The Courts of Chancery, King's-Bench, Common-Pleas, And Exchequer..... More
A Handy Guide to Scots Civil Law Circa 1726 Hope, Sir Thomas [1580?-1646]. Minor Practicks, Or, a Treatise of the Scottish Law. To Which is Subjoined, A Discourse On the Rite and Progress of the Law of Scotland: And an Alphabetical Abridgment of the Acts of Sederunt, From the Restoration..... More
Cases Concerning the Poor, 1727-1742 [Poor Laws]. [Great Britain]. Cases and Resolutions of Cases, Adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench. Concerning Settlements and Removals, From the First Year of King George I. To the Present Time. Corrected, With Additions, And an Appendix; Being a Collection of the Like Cases..... More
"Distinguished for Accuracy and Sound Learning" Vaughan, Sir John [1603-1674]. Vaughan, Edward [d. 1688], Editor. The Reports and Arguments of that Learned Judge Sir John Vaughan Kt. Late Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas. Being All of Them Special Cases, And Many Wherein he Pronounced the Resolution..... More