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Illustrated Throughout With Woodcuts Depicting
Adultery, Murder, Theft and Other Crimes
1. Damhouder, Josse (Joost) de.
Praxis Rerum Criminalium: Praetoribus, Propraetoribus,
Consulibus, Proconsulibus, Magistratibus, Reliquisque id Genus
Iustitiariis [Justitiariis] ac Officiaiis, Apprime Utilis &
Necessaria. Antwerp: Ioan Belleri, 1601. xii, 637 pp. Reprinted
November 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-560-2.
Cloth. $150.
* Reprint of the definitive revised edition. First published in
1554, this was the first comprehensive study of criminal procedure
published in northern Europe. A synthetic work drawn mostly from
Roman-Dutch sources, it was based on Philip Wielant’s Practycke
Crimineele (1439-1519) and other earlier treatises. Published in
Latin, Dutch and French, it was standard authority throughout the
continent for many years. This Dutch edition from 1601 is
illustrated throughout with woodcuts depicting adultery, murder,
theft and many other crimes. Damhouder [1507-1581] was an advisor to
the Duke of Burgandy and a prolific author of legal and religious
treatises. This edition published in conjunction with Damhouder’s
Sententiae Selectae Pertinentes ad Materiam Praxios Rerum
Criminalium (1601), which is available as a Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. reprint.  
Valuable Appendix to Praxis Rerum Criminalium…
2. Damhouder, Josse (Joost) De.
Sententiae Selectae Pertinentes ad Materiam Praxios Rerum
Criminalium et Aliarum Partium Iuris Scientiarumque; Ex Variis
Authoribus in Classes Ordine Alphabetico Dictionum Digestae.
Antwerp: Ioan Belleri, 1601. pp. [xii], 192 pp. Reprinted November
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-535-1. Cloth. $90.
* Published posthumously, this book is a useful appendix to the
definitive 1601 edition of his Praxis Rerum Criminalium,
which is available as a Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. reprint. Positioned
between a dictionary and a compendium of authorities, it contains an
alphabetical list of topics and corresponding definitions drawn from
Roman, canon, and biblical law sources and commentators, along with
citations. Damhouder [1507-1581] studied law at Louvain and was
Paymaster General to Charles V and then Philip II for the Spanish
occupation troops in the Low Countries.
“One of the Pleasures of the Legal Bibliophile”
3. Jacobsen, Frederick, J.
Laws of the Sea, With Reference to Maritime Commerce, During
Peace and War. [Translated] from the German by William Frick.
Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1818. xxxv, 636 pp. Reprinted November
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-538-6. Cloth.
$150.
* Reprint of the first English-language edition. Marvin spoke highly
of this work in his Legal Bibliography (1847), noting that
few have equaled his wide range of research and depth of learning
(418-419). As late as 1921, G.L. Canfield, writing in the
Michigan Law Review, called this work “one of the pleasures of
the legal bibliophile” that “remain[s] essential today to a
practitioner’s library (19:580-582). Jacobsen [1774-1822], a German
jurist, was an internationally recognized authority on maritime law.
First published in 1815, Laws of the Sea is based on a
sixteen-year study of the laws of Italy, France, Great Britain,
Holland, Denmark and Germany. It remains the most thorough
single-volume study of English and continental maritime law in the
early nineteenth century, a turbulent era shaped by the French
Revolution and Napoleon.
The Definitive Biography of Sir George Mackenzie
4. Lang, Andrew.
Sir George Mackenzie King’s Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and
Times 1636(?)-1691. London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. xi, 347 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted
November 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-616-1.
Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the standard biography of MacKenzie. Lord Advocate
during the reigns of Charles II and James II, MacKenzie persecuted
Scottish Presbyterians with such zeal that he was known as “The
Bloody MacKenzie.” (In many cases, he bent the law to secure a
conviction.) Also an important scholar and author, he founded the
Advocates Library, which is now the National Library of Scotland.
His works include The Laws and Customs of
Scotland, In Matters Criminal
(1678), which is available as a Lawbook Exchange Reprint.
A Valuable Tool for Tracing
the History of Legislation
5. [New Jersey].
Revision of the Statutes of
New Jersey. Published Under the Authority of the Legislature by
Virtue of an Act Approved April 4, 1871.
Trenton: John L. Murphy, 1877. With a New Introduction by Paul
Axel-Lute and Original Material. xii, xxxiii, [1556] pp. Reprinted
November 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-674-9.
Cloth. $350.
* The Revision of 1877 satisfied an 1871 act of the
Legislature to “revise, simplify, arrange, and consolidate” all the
general and permanent public statutes of New Jersey.” It is valuable
today chiefly as a tool for tracing the history of legislation. As
Axel-Lute observes in his introduction, “[t]here are nearly seven
hundred current sections in New Jersey Statutes Annotated for
which the oldest source cited in the historical note is the
Revision of 1877. To trace these sections back to earlier
sources, the researcher must use marginal notes and enactment date
information in the 1877 work” (iii). In addition to his informative
introduction, Axel-Lute has added a detailed table of contents, a
feature not found in the original work.
With New Introduction by Paul Axel-Lute
6. [New Jersey]. [Vroom, Garret D.W., and William M.Lanning,
Compilers].
General Statutes of
New Jersey. Published Under the Authority of the Legislature, by
Virtue of an Act Approved April 4, 1894, and a Supplement Thereto,
Approved March 20, 1895.
Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn & Co., 1896. [With] Luce, Edward
J., Compiler. Table of Statutes Included in The General
Statutes of
New Jersey 1703-1895.
Newark: Soney & Sage, 1900. With a new introduction by Paul
Axel-Lute and new contents. Three volumes. Reprinted November 2005
by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-673-0. Cloth. $995.
* This compilation succeeded the previous edition of 1877.
Two-and-a-half times the size of its predecessor, it records the
greatest increase in public general legislation between any two
consecutive compilations in New Jersey’s history. Its bulk pays
witness to the state’s rapid growth during the nineteenth century
and its engagement with the forces of modernity. Such topics as
“Usury” and “Militia” in 1877 are redefined as “Interest” and
“National Guard”; new additions include laws dealing with labor
arbitration, civil rights and occupational safety. Luce’s Table
of Statutes, an invaluable tool originally published separately
in 1900, is included as an appendix in Volume III. Our reprint also
has a detailed table of contents, a feature that was not included in
the original work.
The First and Best English Treatise on the Subject
7. Park, James Allan.
A System of the Law of Marine Insurances. With Three Chapters On
Bottomry; On Insurances on Lives; And On Insurances Against Fire.
Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1799. xxvii, liv, 516 pp. Reprinted
November 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-518-1.
Cloth. $125.
* Reprint of the second American edition, based on the third London
edition, 1797, to which it is starred. First published in 1787,
Park’s Marine Insurances was the first English treatise on
the subject and, according to Holdsworth, “the best.” It went
through numerous editions, both in England and America and remained
the standard text until the mid-nineteenth century. It begins with a
history of insurance in the maritime states of Europe. The following
chapters explain average, salvage, abandonment and how insurance
policies are constructed. The final sections address liability and
topics dealing with procedure and evidence. Cases and authorities
are discussed at length, underlying principles are given as well.
Holdsworth, A History of English Law VIII:263.
8. Phillipson, Coleman.
International Law and the Great War. With Introduction by Sir
John MacDonnell. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. xxiv, 407 pp.
Reprinted November 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN
1-58477-569-6. Cloth. $125.
* Phillipson addressed the future of international law at a time
when many questioned its validity. Although he acknowledges that the
war made a shambles of international law, he is hopeful that
memories of the war’s human and material costs when the fighting
ends will lead to a renaissance of international law. Indeed, he
predicts that nations will work to enforce it through a “World
Tribunal.” His conclusions are based an a careful analysis of the
war’s causes, its immediate effects on combatants, non-combatants
and prisoners of war.
With New Introduction by Michael Hoeflich
9. Wessels, J[ohannes] W[ilhelmus].
History of the Roman-Dutch Law. Grahamstown, Cape Colony:
African Book Co., 1908. xv, 791 pp. Reprinted November 2005 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. With a New Introduction by Michael Hoeflich.
ISBN 1-58477-657-9. Cloth. $150.
*
Roman-Dutch law is a hybrid of medieval Dutch law, mainly Germanic
in origin, and Roman law as defined by the Corpus Juris Civilis
and its later reception. It was developed in Holland during the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bynkershoek,
Damhouder, Grotius and other important Roman-Dutch scholars had
a profound influence on the development of European civil law
and were the primary conduit that brought civil-law ideas to America.
Dutch colonists exported it to South Africa, where it became the
primary component of its current legal system. This engagingly
written history by a judge of the Traansvaal Supreme Court offers
a thorough analysis of Roman-Dutch jurisprudence and its intellectual
background. He devotes a great deal of attention to its literature,
and he analyzes several treatises at length. Valuable as a introduction
to one of the most important legal systems in history, it is equally
useful as a reference guide to its literature.
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