328. Bentham, Jeremy
Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with Reasons for each Article. With an introduction, Shewing [sic] the Necessity of Radical, and the Inadequacy of Moral, Reform.
London: T.J. Wooler, 1818
156 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-058816. ISBN 1-58477-121-6. Cloth. $75.

329. Beth, Loren P.
The American Theory of Church and State.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1958
vii, 183 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001023455. ISBN 1-58477-179-8. Cloth. $65.

330. Black, Henry Campbell
A Treatise on the Law of Income Taxation under Federal and State Laws.
Kansas City: Vernon Law Book Co., 1913
xlii, 403 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-237-9. Cloth. $85.

331. Bouvier, John
Institutes of American Law.
New Edition by Daniel A. Gleason.
Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1880
Two volumes. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-54288. ISBN 1-886363-80-3. Cloth. $250.

332. Brackenridge, Hugh
Law Miscellanies. Containing an Introduction to the Study of Law; notes on Blackstone’s Commentaries, Shewing [sic]the Variations of the Law of Pennsylvania from the Law of England, and what Acts of Assembly Might Require to be Repealed or Modified Observations on Smith’s Edition of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Strictures on Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on Certain Acts of Congress, with Some Law Cases, and a Variety of Other Matters, Chiefly Original.
Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1814
588 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-059548. ISBN 1-58477-161-5. Cloth. $120.

333. Calhoun, John C.
A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States.
Edited by Richard K. Cralle.
Charleston, S.C.: Steam Power-Press of Walker and James, 1851
viii, 406 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-067584. ISBN 1-58477-127-5. Cloth. $95.

334. Church, William S.
A Treatise on the Writ of Habeas Corpus including Jurisdiction, False Imprisonment, Writ of Error, Extradition, Mandamus, Certiorari, Judgments, etc. with Practice and Forms.
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1886
[lx], 702 pp. Reprinted 2003
SBN 1-58477-277-8. Cloth. $150.

* First edition of this comprehensive work discusses all aspects of the writ and its jurisdiction in English common law and United States federal and state courts. Includes an examination of issues of bail, foreign and interstate extradition, the return, pardon, custody, etc. and a thorough history of the writ that traces its history to the Roman Edict. Well-indexed.

335. Clancy, James
A Treatise on the Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Husband and Wife at Law and in Equity.
First American from the Third London Edition, with Great Additions.
New York: Treadway & Bogert, 1828
Reprinted 2003
ISBN 1-58477-281-6
Cloth. $150.

* This popular and useful work went through several London and American editions, and is instructive of the legal status of marriage at the time. Examines the equitable rights of both husband and wife in their legal relationship to each other, in terms of personal property, liability, debts, survivorship, suicide, inheritance, children, cohabitation, dower, arrest of a married woman, settlement, and the like. See Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 11078.

336. Collier, Wm. Miller
The Law of Bankruptcy and the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898. A Treatise of the Principles and Practice of the Law of Bankruptcy as Embodies in the New National Bankruptcy Act.
Albany, N.Y.: Matthew Bender, 1899
xxx, 695 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002041360. ISBN 1-58477-296-4. Cloth. $110.

* Reprint of the second enlarged edition of perhaps the most authoritative and comprehensive treatise on the subject. Vanderbilt considers this book to be one of America’s “great textbooks” in which the “history of American law might well be traced.” Now in its revised fifteenth edition, Collier on Bankruptcy remains a highly-respected standard authority. Vanderbilt, Men and Measures in the Law 21 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 442.

337. Cooper, Thomas
A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel: With Copious Notes and References to Authorities in Great Britain and the United States: As Applicable to Individuals and to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies and Principles.
New York: G.F. Hopkins & Son, 1830
xxxviii, 184 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-134-8. Cloth. $95.

337a. Corwin, Edward
The Doctrine of Judicial Review: Its Legal and Historical Basis and Other Essays.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1914
ix, 178 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-32362. ISBN 1-58477-011-2. Cloth. $60.

338. Elias, Gbolahan
Explaining Constructive Trusts.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1990
xxii, 177 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-208-5. Cloth. $75.

339. Freeman, A.C.
A Treatise of the Law of Judgments.
Including All Final Determinations of the Rights of Parties in Actions or Proceedings at Law or in Equity. Revised, and Greatly Enlarged by Edward W. Tuttle.
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney, 1925
Three volumes. Reprinted 1993
LCCN 99-047228. ISBN 0-9630106-6-2. Cloth. $395.

340. Gilmore, Grant
Security Interests in Personal Property.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1965
Two volumes. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-10258. ISBN 1-886363-81-1. Cloth. $195.

341. Gould, James
A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Action.
Boston: Lilly and Wait, 1832
x, 536 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-059549. ISBN 1-58477-158-5. Cloth. $95.

342. Gray, John Chipman
The Rule Against Perpetuities. Third Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1915
xlii, 714 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002040729. ISBN 1-58477-307-3. Cloth. $125.

* The first edition of this classic treatise was published in 1886. It became a standard work among conveyancers and was adopted by law schools within a few years. Considered a work of authority, it is distinguished by its organization and thoroughnesss as well as the extent of Gray’s historical research and boldness of his analysis.

343. Greenleaf, Simon
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899
Three volumes. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-065554. ISBN 1-58477-166-X. Cloth. $350.

* Sixteenth edition and last edition. The first volumes of this edition was edited by John H. Wigmore just prior to the publication of his magnum opus on this subject. Thus this edition represents the transition from Greenleaf on Evidence to Wigmore on Evidence.         

344. Hare, J.[ohn] I.[nnes] Clark
The Law of Contracts.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1887
xxxiv, 679 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-311-1
Cloth. $125.

* Hare’s objective was to trace the doctrine of consideration and to show its influence on contracts in common law. Beginning with Roman law, where the doctrine of consideration was unknown, he proceeds to an examination of the practical importance of the law of sales. This treatise was taken from a course of lectures given by the author in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as a trustee. Hare [1816-1905] edited a number of selections and reports of cases and “...was one of the half-dozen greatest judges that Pennsylvania has produced. He ascended the bench just after equity was introduced, as a general system, into Pennsylvania, and his contribution to its establishment was of great importance.” Dictionary of American Biography IV:262.

345. Highmore, A[nthony].
A Treatise on the Law of Idiocy and Lunacy.
First American from the Last London Edition. To which is Subjoined an Appendix, Comprising a Selection of American Cases; in which some Important Subjects of this Treatise Have Been Investigated and New Principles Settled.
Exeter, N.H.: George Lamson, 1822
x, 194 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002024213. ISBN 1-58477-266-2
Cloth. $70.

* Anthony Highmore [1758-1829] was an English barrister and legal writer. A socially progressive individual, active opponent of the slave trade and a supporter of hospitals and other public improvements, his commitment to humane values is evident in this treatise. First published in London in 1807, it was one of the first studies devoted exclusively to the subject. It deals with legal definitions of lunacy, the disabilities of lunatics, asylums and their regulation by statute, the nature of criminal insanity, and precedents regarding the treatment of lunatics before the law for various crimes.

346. Hilliard, Francis
A Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
Second edition, embracing the Bankrupt Act of 1867.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1867
xxxvi, 512 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002042755. ISBN 1-58477-349-9
Cloth. $95.

* Reprint of second edition, embracing the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, which was enacted as part of Congress’ reconstruction plan following the end of the Civil War. A thorough guide to the principles of mid-nineteenth century Anglo-American bankruptcy law based on a study of American and English cases. Topics include the nature of bankruptcy, petitioning creditors, proof of claims, discharge of debts and the jurisdiction of bankruptcy courts. The appendix includes the texts of U.S. bankruptcy laws and acts passed between 1800 and 1867 and the 1858 Massachusetts Insolvent Law.

347. Hurd, Rollin C.
A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty, and of the Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Practice Connected with it.
With a View of the Law of Extradition of Fugitives.
Albany: W.C. Little & Co., 1858
xxvii, 677 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002044397. ISBN 1-58477-322-7. Cloth $100.

* Reprint of the first edition. This was the first book-length work to examine the subject. As such, it is a landmark work in the bibliography of American civil liberties. More important, this book, which was published a year before John Brown’s raid and three years before the outbreak of the Civil War, treats the status of slaves at length. Hurd [1815-1874] reviews the statutes concerning fugitive slaves and their extradition, analyzes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and discusses the application of habeas corpus to slave issues. The list of cases cited by Hurd includes such landmarks as Jack v. Martin and Prigg v. Pennsylvania. See Finkelman, Slavery in the Courtroom 296.

348. Hurst, James Willard
Law and Markets in United States History.
Different Modes of Bargaining among Interests.
[Madison]: The University of Wisconsin Press, [1982]
vii, 207 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-067116. ISBN 1-58477-136-4. Cloth. $80.

349. Laussat, Anthony
An Essay on Equity in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia: Published for the Institution, by Robert Desilver, 1826
vi, [7]-157, [2] pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-067115. ISBN 1-58477-139-9. Cloth. $60.

350. Lieber, Francis
On Civil Liberty and Self-Government.
Enlarged edition in one volume.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.. 1859
xix, [15]-629 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 99-056928. ISBN 1-58477-070-8. Cloth. $100.

351. McKeag, Edwin C.
Mistake in Contract.
A Study in Comparative Jurisprudence.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1905
132 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002072856. ISBN 1-58477-276-X. Cloth. $60.

* In contract law there are two types of mistake as determined by Savigny. The first, echt, represents those cases in which consent exists, but the contract is impeachable due to the determination of mistake. This work examines the second class of mistake in contract, unecht, “...in which real consent is lacking, resulting in the nullity of the contract, while the mistake is an accompanying feature” (Preface). This class of mistake is traced from Roman law to common law and modern civil law. Originally published as Volume XXIII, Number 2 in Columbia’s series, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law.

352. Parry, Edward Abbott
The Law and the Poor.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914
xxi, 316 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-354-5. Cloth $70.

* Reprint of first edition. Parry [1863-1953] was an English municipal judge for over twenty years. His book, a guide for “the man in the street,” which began as a series of newspaper articles, outlines the laws concerning insolvency, debt and poverty. It is distinguished by its emphasis on cultural attitudes toward the poor, and its readability and humanity. Parry’s was among the strong voices to speak in sympathy to the poor in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act which had been enacted in 1834. “Judge Parry is particularly gifted with that rare imagination which enables him to see mortal men and women where others see cases, litigants, and parties before the courts. Hence his volume is a rare document, especially useful as a corrective to the tendency to lose sight of actual living conditions in the logical pursuit of abstract legal doctrines.” Cohen, Law and Social Order cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 810.

353. Parsons, Theophilus
The Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a Citizen of the United States, How to Exercise and Preserve Them.
Together with I. A Treatise on the Rules of Organization and Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies; II. A Glossary of Law Terms in Common Use.
Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Company, 1875
xvi, 744 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002044367. ISBN 1-58477-319-7. Cloth. $125.

* This book outlines the political rights of American citizens and maintains the importance of the rights of the individual. A discussion of the United States Constitution and the constitutions of the states and territories is followed by an overview of personal rights. The book concludes with a digest of family, property and business law relevant to personal and property rights. The extensive appendix includes a glossary of common law terms and a treatise on the rules of order in deliberative bodies. Parsons [1797-1882] was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University from 1848 to 1870 and the author of several popular treatises.

354. Pothier, R[obert]. J[oseph].
Treatise on the Contract of Sale.
Translated from the French by L.S. Cushing.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839
xvi, 406 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-10260. ISBN 1-886363-82-X. Cloth. $70.

355. Pothier, Robert Joseph
A Treatise on the Law of Obligations, or Contracts.
Translated from the French, with an Introduction, Appendix, and Notes, Illustrative of the English Law on the Subject. By William David Evans.
London: A. Strahan, 1802
Two volumes. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-26397. ISBN 1-886363-98-6. Cloth. $195.

356. Pothier, Robert Joseph
A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View.
Translated from the French of Pothier. Translated by Francois-Xavier Martin.
Newburn, N.C.: Martin & Ogden, 1802
Two vols. in one book. Reprinted 1999
With a new introduction by Warren M. Billings
LCCN 98-38360. ISBN 1-886363-62-5. Cloth. $95.

357. Rogers, Edward S.
Good Will Trade-Marks and Unfair Trading.
Chicago: A.W. Shaw Company, [1914]
288 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001045971. ISBN 1-58477-211-5. Cloth. $80.

358. Savigny, [Friedrich Carl von]
Von Savigny’s Treatise on Possession; or the Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law.
Sixth Edition. Translated from the German by Sir Erskine Perry.
London: R. Sweet, 1848
xvi, 432 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-289-1. Cloth. $150.

359. Sears, John H.
Trust Estates as Business Companies.
[Second Edition].
Kansas City, Mo.: Vernon Law Book Company, 1921
xx, 782 pp. [1921]. Reprinted 1998
LCCN 97-32423 ISBN 1-886363-41-2. Cloth. $110.

360. Spooner, Lysander
An Essay on the Trial by Jury.
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1852
224 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-058811. ISBN 1-58477-156-9. Cloth. $70.

361. Stone, Harlan F.
Law and its Administration.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1915
vii, 232 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-021508. ISBN 1-58477-093-7. Cloth. $70.

362. Story, Joseph
Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments.
Second Edition. Revised, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged
London: A. Maxwell, 1841
xxxiv, 927 pp. (misnumbered in original, pp. 753-756 omitted.) Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-145-3. Cloth. $125.

363. Thorne, Samuel E., Editor
A Discourse Upon the Exposicion [sic] & Understandinge [sic] of Statutes
With Sir Thomas Egerton’s Additions.
Edited from Manuscripts in the Huntington Library.
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1942
vii, 194 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-355-3. Cloth. $65.

* Reprint of first edition. Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Thorne’s edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [?1540-1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. “Professor Thorne ... has carried out his difficult task with great skill and has prefixed an introduction which can be regarded as the most authoritative and most richly documented discussion as yet upon the problems of statutory interpretation from the later fourteenth century ... to the age of Coke.” T.F.T. Plucknett, Law Quarterly Review 60:242 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 810.

364. Tiedeman, Christopher G.
A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Power in the United States Considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint.
St. Louis: The F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1886
lxv, 662 pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-122-4. Cloth. $110.

365. Tiedeman, Christopher G.
A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States Considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint.
St. Louis: The F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1900
Two volumes. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-229-8. Cloth. $195.

366. Wheaton, Henry
Elements of International Law: with a Sketch of the History of the Science.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836
xiv, 375 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-066335. ISBN 1-58477-170-4. Cloth. $80.

367. Wiener, Frederick Bernays
Briefing and Arguing Federal Appeals.
Washington, D.C.: BNA Incorporated, 1961
Reprinted with a new introduction by Bryan A. Garner.
xvi, 506 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 2001031682. ISBN 1-58477-183-6. Cloth. $85.

368. Wortman, Tunis
A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry, and the Liberty of the Press.
New York: Printed by George Forman for the Author, 1800
xii, 296 pp. Reprinted 2003
ISBN 1-58477-290-5. Cloth. $95.
See item 106 in section Freedom of Speech for more information on this title.

369. Wrightington, Sydney R.
The Law of Unincorporated Associations and Similar Relations.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916
xxvi, 486 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001045970. ISBN 1-58477-205-0. Cloth. $140.

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