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An Arcane Component of Victorian-Era Chancery Practice Braithwaite, Thomas W. Oaths in Chancery: Practical Directions to "Commissioners to Administer Oaths in Chancery;" Being a Collection of Officially Recognized Forms of Jurats and Oaths with Explanatory Notes and Observations. London: V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton, 1854. 57, [3], 24..... More

Murder and Mutilation in Brighton [Trial]. Holloway, John [1806?-1831], Defendant. An Authentic and Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway, With an Accurate Account of All the Mysterious and Extraordinary Circumstances Which Let to the Discovery of Her Mangled Body in the Copse in the Lover's Walk, At..... More

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Song, Ci. McKnight, Brian E., Translator. The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China. Ann Arbor, [Mich.]: University of Michigan, 1981. xv, 181 pp. Softcover. Moderate shelfwear. $20. * Contents: Chapter I: 1. A List of Laws; 2. General Discussion of Inquests: Part One; 3. General Discussion of..... More

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Marquis, Greg. Policing Canada's Century: a History of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1993]. xv, 459 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. $20. * Contents: Foreword: The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police; Foreword: The Osgoode Society; 1. Policing in Nineteenth-Century Canada; 2..... More

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Shepard, Leslie. The History of Street Literature: the Story of Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, Proclamations, News-sheets, Election Bills, Tracts, Pamphlets, Cocks, Catchpennies, and other Ephemera. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, [1973]. 238 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $20. * Contents: The varieties of street literature; How it began; Printers and..... More

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With the Scarce Index Volume Wing, Donald, Compiler. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, And British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1994 [Vol. I], 1982 [Vol. II], 1988 [Vol. III], 1998 [Vol. IV]..... More

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A Warm Letter from Kent [Manuscript]. Kent, James [1763-1847]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, From James Kent to Thomas Isaac Wharton, New York, May 3, 1828 (?)]. 2 pp. 10" x 8" bifolium, addressed and docketed (Ch. Kent Nov: 3d. 38) on verso with postmark and wax seal. Light toning, fold lines..... More

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A Convicted Libeler Brings His Own Libel Charges [Trial]. Tipper, Samuel, Defendant. Finnerty, Peter, Plaintiff. Finnerty v. Tipper. A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the Action Brought by Peter Finnerty Against Samuel Tipper, Publisher of "The Satirist," For a Libel. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas..... More

McCarthy, Muriel. All Graduates & Gentlemen: Marsh's Library. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1980. 239 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. Author inscription to half-title. $50. * Contents: Archbishop Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713); Marsh's library; Incunabula and other early printings; Famous books. More

Stone, Harlan Fiske. Law and its Administration. New York: Columbia University Press, 1924. 2nd ed. vii, 232 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn and lightly soiled dust jacket. $30. * Contents: 1. Nature and functions of law; 2. Law and justice; 3. Fundamental legal conceptions; 4. Fundamental legal conceptions (continued); 5..... More

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