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Ordronaux,
John. The Jurisprudence
of Medicine in its Relation to the Law of Contracts, Torts, and
Evidence: with a Supplement on the Liabilities of Vendors of Drugs.
Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1869. xvi, 310 pp. Reprinted
2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-503-4.
ISBN-10: 1-58477-503-3. Cloth. $95.
* According to Kronick, this is the
"first genuine work on medical jurisprudence as distinguished from
legal medicine." It contains four sections: Rights, Remedies, and
Liabilities of Physicians, with a subchapter on superintendents of
asylums for the insane; medical evidence, with a full chapter on
evidence in cases of alleged insanity; the ethics of medicine; and,
the jurisprudence of pharmacy. A lawyer and physician who held
chairs at Columbia Law School and Dartmouth Medical School,
Ordronaux [1830-1908] also served as the first New York State
commissioner for the mentally ill. Kronick, Landmark Books in
Legal Medicine, 1981.  
Orfield,
Lester Bernhardt.
Criminal Procedure from Arrest to Appeal. New York: New
York University Press, 1947. xxxi, 614 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-522-X. Cloth. $95.
* This study was originally published as
part of the influential Judicial Administration series published
under the auspices of the National Conference of Judicial Councils.
"[L]awyers who practice in criminal courts and those who are
interested in the improvement of a very vital part of the
administration of justice will find this volume both interesting and
instructive. Prof. Orfield has presented us with a fine piece of
constructive scholarship which must be considered in the light of
his purpose and method, which consists of tracing the history of the
subject, stating the law briefly and offering sound standards of
reform.": Lloyd P. Stryker, Columbia Law Review 48:1265-1267
cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York
University (1953) 452.
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 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.
[Penn,
William]. [Magna Charta].
The Excellent Priviledge of Liberty and Property. Being a Reprint
and Fac-Simile of the First American Edition of Magna Charta Printed
in 1687 Under the Direction of William Penn and William Bradford.
Philadelphia: Printed for the Philobiblon Club, 1897. xv, 168,
63 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-398-7.
Cloth. $125.
* Reprint of the 1897 edition, which was
limited to 155 copies. There are only three known copies of the
original 1687 edition. A lavish production, it has decorations by
noted illustrator Edward Stratton Holloway, an introduction by
Frederick D. Stone, extensive notes and a table of dates. It also
includes texts of the Magna Charta, A Confirmation of the
Liberties of England, and of the Forest, Made Anno XXV. Edward I,
The Sentence of the Clergy Against the Breakers of Those Articles,
The Sentence or Curse Given by the Bishops Against the Breakers
of the Great Charter, A Statute Made Anno XXXIV. Edward I.,
Commonly Called De Tallegio non Concedendo, The Comment Upon
the Statute De Tallegio non Concedendo and An Abstract of the
Patent Granted by the King to William Penn and His Heirs and Assigns
for the Province of Pennsylvania and The Frame of the Government of
the Province of Pennsylvania and Territories Thereunto Annexed, in
America.
Phillips,
Walter Alison.
The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance,
1813-1823 as an Experiment in the International Organization of
Peace. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. xviii, 320 pp.
Reprinted 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-5847-544-6.
ISBN-10: 1-58477-554-8. Cloth. $90.
* reprint of the second edition.
Phillips [1864-1950] believed that World War I, though greater in
scale, was similar to earlier European conflicts. Hopeful that the
newly formed League of Nations could learn a useful lesson from the
past, he offers an account of its most successful forerunner, the
European alliance of 1813-1823, which was formed at the end of the
Napoleonic Wars. Reaching its apogee in the Congress of Vienna, the
alliance initiated a brief but fruitful era of political stability.
After enumerating the factors that ended the alliance, Phillips uses
these examples to advise the new League of analogous problems it may
face.
Phillipson,
Coleman. International
Law and the Great War. With Introduction by Sir John MacDonnell.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. xxiv, 407 pp. Reprinted 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.
Pitman,
Benn, Recorder and Editor.
The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the
Conspirators. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865.
xvi, [17]-421, 203-210 pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, three
maps and Appendix. Reprint available August 2006 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-600-5. Cloth. $95.
* This is the text of the trial
transcript with narrative commentary by the recorder of the military
tribunal that tried the conspirators. One of the most traumatic
events in U.S. History, the assassination of President Lincoln has
several aspects that remain a subject of debate. One is the legality
of the tribunal. For example, it is unclear whether the assassins
were guerrilla soldiers or civilians, which raises questions about
the choice of tribunal. In order to consider issues such as these it
is useful to have access to the original source records. Pitman's
annotated transcript is one of the most important.
The appendix
contains the verdict of the Military Commission together with
President Johnson's approval and his Official Order for the
execution of David E. Harold, George A. Atzeroth, Lewis Payne and
Mary E. Surratt; an account of the their executions; and Mrs.
Surratt's petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus with the President's
indorsement suspending the writ in the case (From The Trial of
the Assassins and Conspirators at Washington City, D.C., May and
June, 1865, for the Murder of President Abraham Lincoln.
Philadelphia: Peterson & Brothers, 1865.)
Plucknett,
Theodore F.T. Statutes
and Their Interpretation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922. xliv, 200 pp. Reprinted
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-485-1. Cloth.
$90.
* An important book by a preeminent
scholar of English legal history. Using evidence drawn from the Year
Books from 20 Edw. I to 20 Edw. III Plucknett [1897-1965] analyzes
the nature of early statutes as seen in the rules for their
construction and their use in court. He shows that the early
statutes were more legislative than declaratory, and were treated as
such by the courts. "This is an essay of absorbing interest and of
great value to historians of the law. Every page shows not only
immense industry, but sound learning.": Law Quarterly Review
39:138-139 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at
New York University (1953) 143.
Poole,
Reginald Lane.
The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1912. ix, 195 pp. Reprint available July 2006 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-658-7. Cloth. $75.
* The English Exchequer of the twelfth
century developed sophisticated notarial and administrative skills
and was an important precursor to the modern centralized state.
Poole examines its history, organization and primary documents,
including the pipe rolls and red and black books, and demonstrates
that its reorganization during the reigns of Edward I and II had a
decisive influence on the institutional systems of the king's
continental possessions. "[A] thorough, scholarly exposition of the
subject.": Lunt, History of England 865 cited in Marke, A
Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York university (1953)
144.
Poole,
Reginald L.
Lectures on the History of the Papal Chancery Down to the Time
of Innocent III. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1915.
xvi, 211 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN
1-58477-486-X. Cloth. $75.
* Papal Bulls and other documents
produced by the Cancellaria Apostolica comprise one of the
most important bodies of western canon and ecclesiastical law. They
were especially important during the early and high medieval era,
the period considered in this incisive study. Poole analyzes the
paleographic features of documents produced between the ninth and
early thirteenth centuries and their modes of transmission. Turning
to the authors, he outlines the history of the Papal Chancery and
the characteristics of its literary style. He concludes with a group
of useful appendixes containing sample documents and bibliographic
data.
Poor,
Henry Varnum. Money
and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a
History of the Currencies of the United States. New York:
H.V. and H.W. Poor, 1877. xl, 623 pp. Reprint available August
2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN 1-58477-640-4. Cloth.
$125.
* Paying particular attention to
positive and customary law, Poor [1812-1905] traces the history of
money from biblical times to the 1870s. More than a chronicle, it is
an ambitious work of economic theory. Though the book was considered
a failure from a theoretical point of view soon after its
publication, it was highly esteemed for its legal perspective and
review of the literature. To quote an early review in the February
1878 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, it gives the reader "all
that is worth listening to in any noted writer on money from
Aristotle down to the present time....The entire freedom with which
the author deals with the greatest reputations makes his work
extremely 'lively reading;' and even those who disagree with him
cannot fail to find it entertaining" (266).
Porter,
Edwin, H., Reporter.
The Fall River Tragedy: A History of The Borden Murders. A
Plain Statement of the Material Facts Pertaining to the Most Famous
Crime of the Century, Including the Story of the Arrest and Preliminary
Trial of Miss Lizzie A. Borden and a Full Report of the Superior
Court Trial, with a Hitherto Unpublished Account of the Renowned
Trickey-McHenry Affair Compiled from Official Sources and Profusely
Illustrated with Original Engravings. Fall River: J.D. Munroe,
1893. 312 pp. Illustrated. Reprint available March 2006 by the
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-546-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-546-7.
Cloth. $95.
* Compiled nearly contemporaneously with
Lizzie's sensational trial, the author aims to provide "a connected
story of the whole case, commencing with the day of the tragedy and
ending with the day that Miss Borden was set free." He touches on
such topics as the discovery of the murders, the adjournment of the
preliminary hearing and some the many theories that were advanced
before any arrests were made. The book is handsomely illustrated
with photos and line illustrations of the deceased, the accused the
jury and others. Porter was the Police Reporter of the Fall River
Globe.
Pound,
Roscoe. New
Paths of the Law. First Lectures in the Roscoe Pound Lectureship
Series. [Lincoln]: University of Nebraska Press, 1950. 69 pp.
Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2006. ISBN 1-58477-672-2.
Cloth. $50.
* Notable for their conservatism, which
became more pronounced in subsequent publications, these lectures
reflect on developments in the international legal order during the
late 1940s. Pound [1870-1964] detected three legal "paths," those of
liberty, humanitarianism and authoritarianism. The first, which he
endorses, seeks to realize a maximum of free individual self
assertion. Legal humanitarianism, which he criticizes heavily, is
the expansion of injury law to include social redress and consumer
protection. His antipathy toward the authoritarian path goes beyond
a condemnation of authoritarian regimes like the Soviet Union to a
rejection of any form of social legislation, such as socialized
medicine or state-run pensions.
First
American Edition of The First Treatise on Contracts
Powell,
John Joseph. Essay
Upon the Law of Contracts and Agreements. Walpole: Printed,
At the Press of Thomas & Thomas, by David Newhall, 1802. Two
volumes. Reprinted 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-520-3.
Cloth. $150.
* Reprint of the first American edition
of the first treatise on the subject. (It is based on the first
London edition, 1790, to which it is starred.) Powell [1755?-1801]
wrote several distinguished treatises that were used widely in
England and America, including this one. Though mildly critical of
its organization, Holdsworth considers it "an able book" that "is
much more than a digest of cases" because "[i]n all cases the author
tries, with considerable success, to state principles, and to
illustrate them by cases.": History of English Law XII:392.
Price,
William Hyde. The
English Patents of Monopoly. Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin,
and Co., 1906. x p., 2 l., [3]-261, [1] pp. Reprint available
June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-623-9.
ISBN-10: 1-58477-623-4. Cloth. $95.
* Originally published in the series
Harvard Economic Studies. This study of English monopolies is
divided into two sections. The first is a political history of
English monopolies from 1559 to 1640. The second looks the effect
Royal licenses had on the organization and development of different
industries. Enriched with 100 pages of source documents, this
oft-cited treatise remains a standard work.
Probert,
William, Translator.
The Ancient Laws of Cambria: Containing the Institutional Triads
of Dyvnwal Moelmud, the Laws of Howel the Good, Triadical Commentaries,
Code of Education, and the Hunting Laws of Wales, to Which are
Added, the Historical Triads of Britain. London: Sold by E.
Williams, 1823. iv, 414 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-564-5. Cloth. $95.
* Inspired by the spirit of Romantic
nationalism, Probert [1790-1870] published this fascinating
compilation of ancient Welsh texts to "rouse the dormant spirit" of
Cambria so it "may awake from the slumber of ages, shake off that
darkness and false taste which Gothic barbarity and tyranny imposed
upon her, and re-assume her ancient and splendid greatness"
(Dedication). Its contents include the first English translation of
the Laws of Howell the Good, which date to the ninth century and are
considered by Probert to be the greatest intellectual achievement of
medieval Wales. It also contains the first valuation of dogs in the
British Isles. In addition to translations, Probert offers an
intriguing argument that the trial by jury was not invented by
Alfred the Great, but adopted from Dynvwal's Triads.
Pufendorf,
Samuel von. [Barbeyrac, Jean].
Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. Written in Latin
by the Baron Puffendorf. Done Into English by Basil Kennet. Carefully
Corrected, with Two Tables. To Which Are Added All the Large Notes
of Mr. Barbeyrac, Translated From the Best Edition; Together with
Large Tables to the Whole. The Fourth Edition, Carefully Corrected.
To Which is Now Prefixed Mr. Barbeyrac's Prefatory Discourse,
Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Science of
Morality, and the Progress It has Made in the World, From the
Earliest Times Down to the Publication of This Work. Done Into
English by Mr. Carew. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin,
[et. al.], 1729. [xxviii] 88, 878, [22] pp. Reprinted 2005 by
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-394-4. Cloth. $195.
* Reprint of the fourth English edition
of De Jure Naturae et Gentium. In 1662 Samuel Pufendorf
[1632-1694] was appointed to the first modern professorship in
natural law (at the University of Heidelberg). In 1670 he became
professor of natural law at the University of Lund in Sweden. First
published in 1672, this is his principal work and a landmark in the
history of natural and international law. It proposed a thorough
system of private, public, and international law based on natural
law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and
their various divisions, Pufendorf proceeded to a discussion of the
validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human
reason. The work is significant in part because it developed
principles introduced by Grotius and Hobbes. Unlike Hobbes,
Pufendorf argued that peace, not war, was the state of nature, and
he proposed that international law was not restricted to
Christendom.
[Purves,
David Laing (1838-1873)].
Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., [1860-1869?]. [v], 154 pp.
Reprint available June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN
1-58477-589-0. Cloth. $65.
* This is a reprint of a volume that was
published in 1868 by W.P Nimmo, Edinburgh, in the series Nimmo's
Commonplace Books. It offers a variety of colorful -- and
occasionally ribald -- anecdotes drawn from the history of English
law, such as "A Judge in the Stocks-Lord Camden," "Eccentric Epitaph
on a Barrister," "Lord Brougham's Rebuke of Rigmarole," and "The
Last Temple Revel."
Radin,
Max. The Trial
of Jesus of Nazareth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1931. ix, 266 pp. Reprint available July 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-662-5. Cloth. $75.
* Renowned for its impeccable legal
reasoning and lucid prose, this compelling study is based on a close
reading of the four gospels. It reconstructs the accounts of Mathew,
Mark, Luke and John and examines their discrepancies. The final two
chapters put these accounts into the context of Jerusalem's legal
and political environment. Radin's goal is not to pass judgment, but
to reconstruct one of the most significant events in history, which
he does with remarkable skill. Radin [1880-1950], the son of a
rabbi, had a thorough education in Hebrew, Greek and Latin in
addition to his legal training. A professor of law at Boalt Hall,
Berkeley, he was a versatile scholar of jurisprudence and
international, comparative and Roman law.
[Raithby,
J.]. The Study
and Practice of the Law, Considered in their Various Relations
to Society. In a Series of Letters. By a Member of Lincoln's Inn.
Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1806. 8vo. xiii, 364, [3] pp. Reprint
available June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-615-3.
Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the first American edition.
First published anonymously in England in 1798 and attributed to Sir
James Macintosh. A series of fifty-eight letters designed to improve
the student of law in such matters as eloquence, integrity,
urbanity, memory, religion, philosophy and manners.
Randolph,
Sir John, and Barradall, Edward, Reporters. Barton, R.T., Editor.
Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports of Decisions of the
General Court of Virginia 1728-1741. Edited, with Historical
Introduction. Boston: the Boston Book Company, 1909. Two volumes.
xxviii, 250, 118; 394 pp. Frontispiece. Reprinted 2005 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-510-6. Cloth. $175.
*These volumes contain all of the
decided cases of colonial Virginia's chief court reported by Randolph
[c.1693-1737] and Barradall [1704-1743]. Excepting a few cases
reported later by Thomas Jefferson and William Hopkins, these
are all of the cases reported during the colonial period. Invaluable
sources for the early history of American law, Barton commends
these reports for "the picture they give of [Virginia's]
colonial period in all its shades and aspects" and their
ability to "make the observer see what the more detailed
narrative of history fails to tell" (Preface iv). This set
is further enriched by Barton's 250-page introduction, which outlines
the legal system of colonial Virginia and sets the reports in
their social context.
[Rastell,
John]. [Rastell, William]. Les
Termes de la Ley: Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words and
Terms of the Common and Statute Laws of This Realm, Now in Use,
Expounded and Explained. Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition
of Many Other Words; Particularly of Those Introduced into the
Statute Law of Great Britain, Never Printed in Any Other Impression.
[London]: Printed
by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, 1721. [iv], 592 pp. Reprint available
June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-547-5. Cloth.
$125.
* Last and best edition of the first
English law dictionary. Corrected and greatly enlarged with English
and Law French in parallel columns. This edition was translated by
his son, William Rastell [1508?-1565], who is often listed as its
author. First published in 1527, this pioneering dictionary was
originally written in Law French with the Latin title
Expositiones Terminorum Legum Anglorumae. Quite popular with
students and lawyers due to its clarity and concision, it went
through at least twenty-five editions by 1721. A final reissue
appeared in 1819. As Marvin observes, it is a useful dictionary
because it "reflects the common law at the close of the year-book
period with much fidelity.": Legal Bibliography (1847) 599.
[Rede,
Leman Thomas, Supposed Author].
Strictures on the Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent
Lawyers of the Present Day: Including, among other Celebrated
Names, Those of the Lord Chancellor, and the Twelve Judges.
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1790. xv, 232 pp. Reprinted 2005
by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-507-6. Cloth. $95.
* A series of caustic-satiric
biographies of contemporary eminent jurists, including the Earls of
Mansfield and Camden, Sir Francis Buller and others. Unabashedly
ad hominem, they are often quite funny. Sir Nash Grose is
compared to a poisonous spider. Sir Richard Perryn's language "is
poor, insipid and nerveless" and his manner "conveys an idea of
weakness and insipidity" (178). Mr. Anstruther's voice often "sounds
discordant, and ungrateful to the ear of harmony" (221). The book
concludes with an essay titled "The Character of an Honest Lawyer,"
which is introduced with the following note: "After so much has been
said of lawyers of the present day, the insertion of the following
character from an old writer may not, perhaps, be thought
impertinent or improper.": 225. Given the nature of contemporary
English libel law, the author was wise to publish this book
anonymously. Though it is sometimes attributed to Edward Wynne
[1734-1784], an English barrister, it was probably written by Leman
Thomas Rede [1754/55-1810], a member of the Inner Temple.
Reinsch,
Paul Samuel. English
Common Law in the Early American Colonies. Madison: [Bulletin
of the University of Wisconsin], 1899. 64 pp. Reprinted 2005 by
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-487-8. Cloth. $65.
* This focused study of the
institutional framework of colonial government addresses the
colonial policy of the European powers, the motives and methods of
colonial expansion, the general forms of colonial government and how
the administrative and legislative methods of each colony grew to
accommodate them.
Robinson,
Sir Chr[istopher].
Collectanea Maritima; Being a Collection of Public Instruments,
&c. &c. Tending to Illustrate the History and Practice
of Prize Law. London: W. Wilson, 1801. [viii], viii, 213,
[1] pp. Reprint available May 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
2005. ISBN 1-58477-656-0. Cloth. $85.
* Reprint of the only edition. Robinson
[1766-1833], a doctor of civil law, an advocate of Doctor's Commons,
and the editor of an important series of admiralty reports, argues
that prize law is governed by body of principles derived from the
"immemorial usage and Customs of the Sea" [iii] that were revealed
over time in treaties and other legal documents. He supports his
argument through annotated excerpts from the Consolato del Mare
and other English and Continental documents from the fourteenth
through eighteenth century (in translation). It is an interesting
thesis argued with a sophisticated blend of ideas from the civil and
common law. From a historical point of view, Robinson's remarks on
landmark texts on prize law offer important insights into their
English reception at the dawn of the Napoleonic Wars.
Rogers,
Lindsay. The
Postal Power of Congress: A Study in Constitutional Expansion.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1916. 189 pp. Reprint available
August 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-677-3.
Cloth. $70.
* Based on a doctoral dissertation
written under the direction of William Westel Willoughby, this study
explores the development of federal postal powers from the 1790s,
when people doubted if the government could do more than carry the
mail over existing roads, to the early 1900s, when the government
began to assert the right to acquire the nation's railway system
under the postal clause. Though restricted to a single topic, this
study raises several valuable points concerning the relationship
between the states and the federal government and the use of
legislation to address social needs.
Rogers,
R[obert] Vashon.
The Law of Hotel Life or, The Wrongs and Rights of Host and
Guest. San Francisco: Sumner Whitney and Company, 1879. vii,
207 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13:
978-1-58477-587-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-587-4. Cloth. $75.
* Reprint of a title in Rogers' popular
Legal Recreations series, which included books on transportation
law, medical jurisprudence and other subjects. Engagingly written,
The Law of Hotel Life covers such topics as "Fire, Rats and
Burglars," "Duties of a Boarding-House Keeper," "City House and
Manners," "Safes and Baggage" and What is a Lein?" Taken together,
these chapters offer an incomparable review of the law in Canada and
the United States during the late nineteenth century. Rogers
[1843-1911] was a Canadian barrister and professor at Osgoode Hall
Ruggle,
George. Hawkins, John Sidney, Editor.
Ignoramus, Comoedia; Scriptore Georgiop Ruggle, A.M. Aulae
Clarensis, Apud Cantabrigienses, Olim Socio; Nunc Denuo in Lucem
Edita cum Notis Historicis et Criticis; Quibus Insuper Praeponitur
Vita Auctoris, et Subjicitur Glossarium Vocabula Forensia Dilucide
Exponens: Accurante Johanne Sidneio Hawkins, Arm. London:
Prostat Venalis Apud T. Payne et Filium, 1787. vii, cxxii, [2],
319, [1] pp. Illustrations. Reprint available July 2006 by the
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-675-7. Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the first critical edition.
With extensive notes in English, a life of Ruggle [1575-1622],
commentary explaining the jokes and an extensive glossary of legal
terms. Main text in Latin. Ruggles's classic acerbic satire of the
English bench and bar was written in Latin and first performed in
1615. Designed to ridicule the language of the common law and the
dullness of lawyers, the play is based on events relating to a legal
dispute between the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University and the
mayor of Cambridge, Francis Brakin. As one would expect, it incensed
the legal community. "The keenness of the satire created quite a
sensation among the lawyers of those times, and even aroused the ire
of Lord Coke.... The Comedy, however, was so highly relished for its
wit satire, that no less than nine Latin and two English editions
have been published. Hawkins' is the best Latin edition, and
Codrington's the best English edition.": 64 Critical Review
333 cited in Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 622.
Rutherfurd,
Livingston. John
Peter Zenger: His Press, His Trial and A Bibliography of Zenger
Imprints. Also a Reprint of the First Edition of the Trial. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. xiii, [1], 275 pp. Frontispiece.
Illustrations. Reprint available May 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-626-9. Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the 1904 edition, which was
limited to three hundred twenty five copies. The standard older
account of the trial, it remains a valuable part of the Zenger
bibliography. For many scholars the most valuable parts of this
study are the "Literal Reprint of the First Edition of the Trial"
and the descriptive bibliography of titles issued by the Zenger
Press, the list of issues of the New York Weekly Journal and
the bibliography of the trial. Taken together, these chapters
provide an overview of Zenger's career, the works he printed and the
historical reception of his trial to about 1900.
[Salmon,
Thomas]. A
Critical Essay Concerning Marriage. Shewing, I. The Preference
of Marriage to a Single Life. II. The Arguments For and Against
a Plurality of Wives and Concubines. III. The Authority of Parents
and Governors, in Regulating or Restraining Marriages. IV. The
Power of Husbands, and the Privileges of Wives. V. The Nature
of Divorce, and in What Cases it is Allowable. VI. The Reasons
of Prohibiting Marriage Within Certain Degrees. VII The Manner
of Contracting Espousals, and What Engagements and Promises of
Marriage are Binding. VIII. The Penalties Incurred by Forcible
and Clandestine Marriages, and the consequences Attending Marriages
Solemnized by Dissenters. To Which is Added, an Historical Account
of the Marriage Rites and Ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans,
and Our Saxon Ancestors, and of Most Nations of the World at this
Day. London: Printed for Charles Rivington, 1724. [xx], 310,
5 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-460-6.
Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the first edition. Salmon
[1679-1767] was a prolific writer on legal, historical and
geographical subjects. He claimed that he went to sea and explored
the world for many years. These travels may have furnished the
information used in the book's section on marriage rites, which
discusses the practices of Denmark, Livonia, Lapland, Germany,
Greece, Armenia, Turkey, Persia, India, Ceylon, Siam, China, Japan,
Morocco, Guinea, Ethiopia, Chili, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, America,
Mexico, Canada, Russia and Sweden. Whether he actually visited these
places or not, Salmon's book remains a fascinating document of
English social values, anthropological views and legal philosophy in
the immediate decades after the Civil War and Restoration. This book
was published anonymously in 1724. The second edition, which states
the author's name, was published later that year.
Sandars, Thomas Collett. The Institutes of Justinian, With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes. London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917. lxxx, 608 pp. Reprint available February 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-726-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-726-5. Cloth. $145.
* Reprint of the Seventh and final edition. Latin and English text of the Corpus Juris Civilis with English commentary, includes index.
Scott,
Colonel H[enry] L[ee]
Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions: Information
On Raising and Keeping Troops; Actual Service, Including Makeshifts
and Improved Materiel; and Law, Government, Regulation, and Administration
Relating to Land Forces. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863.
674 pp. Illustrations. Reprint available May 2006 by The Lawbook
Exchange Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-579-3. Cloth. $125.
* This dictionary addresses all subjects
of interest to an officer of the U.S. Army. It contains a large
number of definitions relating to civil and military law and
government based on the works of Bouvier, De Hart, Dunlop, Guillot,
Pendergast, Vattel, Wheaton and others. A reissue of a work first
published in 1861, it encapsulates the state of legal knowledge as
it was understood by the American military before it was confronted
by the complications wrought by the Civil War and the reforms
effected by Lieber's code. Scott [1814-1886] was a colonel and
Inspector-General.
Scrutton,
Thomas Edward, Sir.
The Law of Copyright. London: W. Clowes, 1903. xxv, 331
pp. Reprint available August 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
2005. ISBN 1-58477-639-0. Cloth. $90.
* Reprint of the fourth and final
edition. This is both a treatise on copyright law in the British
commonwealth (as it stood in 1903) and a sharp analysis of its
shortcomings. Written in a clear and engaging manner, it was the
standard treatise of the day. Beginning with a history of English
copyright law, Scrutton considers the author's rights at common law,
lectures, oral and printed communications, such as plays, musical
copyright, literary copyright in books, artistic copyright, colonial
copyright and international copyright.
Selden,
John. Opera
Omnia, Tam Edita Quam Inedita. Collegit ac Recensuit; Vitam
Auctoris, Praefationes, & Indices Adjecit, David Wilkins.
London: Guil Bowyer [Volume One]; S. Palmer [Volume Two]; T. Wood
[Volume Three], 1726. 3 Volumes in 6 books. Complete set. Various
paginations. Portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after P.Lely.
with text illustrations and ornaments. Text in double columns.
Vols. 1-2 Latin; Vol. 3 English. Reprint available May 2006 by
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-670-6. Cloth. $1,995.
* Reprint of the first collected edition
which was limited to 750 sets, edited, with preface, index and life
of the author, by Dr. David Wilkins. Collects all of the major legal
treatises and antiquarian studies of one of the greatest figures in
English legal history. Among the titles included are De Anno
Civili Veteris Ecclesiae Judaicae Dissertatio, De Diis Syris,
Dissertatio ad Fletam, Mare Clausum, Epistolae & Poemata,
Titles of Honour, Uxor Ebraica, The History of
Tythes, Of the Judicature in Parliament, Speeches and
Arguments and Table Talk. This set is notable also for
its handsome layout and typography, which features Roman, Italic and
Hebrew type created for Bowyer by William Caslon. In Printing
Types Updike refers to it as Bowyer's "greatest achievement" and
as "a stupendous piece of work" (II:102, 136-137).
Selden,
John. Titles
of Honor. Carefully Corrected With Additions and Amendments by
the Author. London: E. Tyler and R. Holt, 1672. [xxxiv], 756
pp. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated.[xxxiv], 756 pp. (9"
x 12"). Reprint available May 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-410-X. Cloth. $195.
* Reprint of the third edition. With a
eulogy by Ben Jonson. Bibliographical references in margins.
Selden's [1584-1654] great historical work on nobility begins with a
general discussion of titles and nobility. The following chapters
consider the nobility of ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, the
British Isles, the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches, the
Middle East and Asia. The final chapters survey various aspects of
ceremony and precedence. First published in 1614, this work went
through three editions. The third is the best as it contains
substantial additions. The text is complemented with numerous
illustrations of court dress, insignia and maps.
Selden,
John. Tracts
Written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire. The first
Entituled, Jani Anglorum Facies Altera, rendred into English,
with large Notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. The Second,
England's Epinomis. The Third, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical
Jurisdictions of Testaments. The Fourth, Of the Disposition or
Administration of Intestates Goods. The Three last never before
Extant. London: Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in
Fleet-Street, and Richard Chiswell, 1683. [xxxiii], 131; [7],
39; [4], 24 pp. With a new introduction by Stephen M. Sheppard.
Reprint available April 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN
1-58477-408-8. Cloth. $195.
* Reprint of first edition. In three
parts; each part has separate title page; the last two tracts form
the third part. Included are four works: The Reverse or Back-Face
of the English Janus. To-wit, all that is met with in story
concerning the Common and Statute-Law of English Britanny, from the
first memoirs of the two nations to the decease of Henry
II...Written in Latin...; England's Epinomis; Two Treatises Written
by John Selden...The First, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction of testaments: The Second, Of the Disposition or
Administration of Intestates Goods. The first tract Jani
Anglorum... (The Reverse or Back-Face of the English Janus)
begins John Selden's [1584-1654] study of the sources of English
common law and the English constitution. This is carried through to
the Magna Carta in the second tract, England's Epinomis.
Holdsworth regards Selden "as the first scientific historian of
English law" and goes on to state: "...his great intellectual
qualities justify us in regarding him both as the pioneer of the
select band of English legal historians, and one of the most eminent
of its representatives." Holdsworth, The Historians of
Anglo-American Law 50-51. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law
Collection at New York University (1953) 146. Sweet & Maxwell,
A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations
I:42(33). Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard
University (1909) II:557.
Sheppard,
Steve, Editor.
The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries
and Primary Sources. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, Inc.,
[1999]. Two volumes. xiv, 584; xxvi, 589-1206, xii. pp. Reprint
available September 2006 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13:
978-158477-690-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-690-0. Cloth. $250.
* An invaluable and fascinating
resource, this carefully edited anthology presents recent writings
by leading legal historians, many commissioned for this book, along
with a wealth of related primary sources by John Adams, James Barr
Ames, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher C. Langdell, Karl N. Llewellyn,
Roscoe Pound, Tapping Reeve, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Story, John
Henry Wigmore and other distinguished contributors to American law.
It is divided into nine sections: Teaching Books and Methods in the
Lecture Hall, Examinations and Evaluations, Skills Courses,
Students, Faculty, Scholarship, Deans and Administration,
Accredation and Association, and Technology and the Future.
Contributors to this volume include Morris Cohen, Dan R.
Coquillette, Michael Hoeflich, John H. Langbein, William P. LaPiana
and Fred R. Shapiro.
Smith,
Herbert Arthur. Federalism
in North America. A Comparative Study of Institutions in the United
States and Canada.
Boston: The Chipman Law Publishing Company, 1923. v, 328 pp. Reprinted
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-624-6.
ISBN-10: 1-58477-624-2. Cloth. $85.
* This study compares the constitutions
and federal governments of the United States and Canada. His scope
also includes such influential extra-governmental institutions as
political parties. "Mr. Smith's book, as a whole, is remarkably
accurate and the author has compressed an immense deal of
information and of sound, penetrating comment into small space.
(...) Mr. Smith's book may be commended unqualifiedly as a careful,
objective and valuable study in a field too much neglected in this
country.": Henry M. Bates, Michigan Law Review 22 (1923-1924)
287.
Smith,
J.M. Powis.
The Origin and History of Hebrew Law. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, [1931]. ix, 285 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-489-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-489-4.
Cloth. $85.
* Smith traces the history of Hebrew law
from its beginning the Decalogue to its close in the Priestly Code,
considers its relation to contemporary social history and compares
it to the Hittite, Assyrian and Babylonian codes. The extensive
appendices contains complete translations of the Code of Hammurabi
and the Assyrian and Hittite codes. Recommended by Roscoe Pound in
the Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence (5th. ed.) 233.
Staunford,
Sir William. Les
Plees del Coron. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1557.
[viii] pp. 198 ff., [1] pp. Reprint available June 2006 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-634-X. Cloth. $125.
* Reprint of the first edition of the
first printed work devoted entirely to criminal law. It is
considered a "principal book" by Pollock and Maitland, one that
enables us "to trace our modern laws of crimes, from the later
middle ages onwards." Based on Bracton and the Year Books,
Staunford's treatise is divided into three parts. The first treats
offences, the second treats jurisdiction, appeals, indictments, and
defenses. The third addresses trials and convictions. Plees
was written after Staunford [1509-1558] was appointed judge of the
common pleas in 1554. Pollock and Maitland, The History of
English Law II:448.
Stearns, John M. The Germs and Developments of the Laws of England: Embracing the Anglo-Saxon Laws Extant: From the Sixth Century to A.D., 1066: as Translated into English Under the Royal Record Commission of William IV.: with the Introduction of the Common Law by Norman Judges After the Conquest, and its Earliest Proferts in Magna Charta. New York: Banks, 1889. 370 pp. Reprint available March 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-732-8. ISBN-10: 1-58477-732-X. Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the sole edition. Contains a translation of the Laws of Edward the Confessor and of Magna Carta. Also includes a glossary of terms found in Saxon laws: p. 369-370.
Stephen,
Henry John. New
Commentaries on the Laws of England (Partly Founded on Blackstone).
London: H. Butterworth, 1841-1845. Four volumes. Folding table.
Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-493-2.
Cloth. $450.
* Reprint of the uncommon first (London)
edition. New Commentaries is an exposition of English law that
preserves Blackstone's topical arrangement and the sections from his
text that were still relevant in Stephen's day. (These are set off
with square brackets.) A successful work, it went through twenty
editions by 1938. In the Dictionary of National Biography Dicey
observed that "in reality it was an original production, differing
essentially in character and merit from his predecessor. (...)
Stephen showed the qualities in which Blackstone was comparatively
deficient--consummate logical power and singular precision and
accuracy of style. Had the work been published as an original
treatise, it would have stood upon a level with Blackstone's work"
(XVIII:1047).
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames.
A General View of the Criminal Law of England. London and
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863. xii, 499 pp. Reprinted 2005
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 1-58477-478-9. Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the first edition. Stephen
[1829-1894] explores English law exclusive of penal actions, of
offences punishable by summary proceedings before magistrates and of
special offences intended as sanctions for special statutory
institutions but including all other acts commonly known as crimes.
In a discussion of a later edition Holdsworth observed: "it was
probably the best modern history of a particular branch of English
law that had yet appeared in England. It won high praise from
Pollock and Maitland.... Though the more intensive study of the
earlier history of our law has rendered some parts of it obsolete,
it is still the best history of the later stages of the law. And it
has another merit which it can never lose. The fact that its author
was a practising lawyer and a judge, gives to his account of many
parts of the law, and especially to his analysis of famous trials,
the reality and vividness which comes of practical experience.":
The Historians of Anglo-American Law 77-78.
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