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On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E....
Thorne, Samuel E. Arnold, Morris S. On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne. Chapel Hill, [NC]: University of North Carolina Press, [1981]. xx, 426 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. Internally clean. $75. * Contents: Simpson, A.W.B. The laws of 5, Ethelbert.;..... More
Report of the Trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase, One of the Associate...
The Only Impeachment of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice [Trial]. Chase, Samuel [1741-1811], Defendant. Evans, Charles, Reporter. Report of the Trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase, One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Before the High Court of Impeachment, Composed of the Senate of..... More
The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature...
The First English Translation of Pufendorf's De Officio Hominis et Civis Pufendorf, Samuel von [1632-1694]. Motte, Benjamin [d.1710], Translator. The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature. By that Famous Civilian Samuel Puffendorf, Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, In the University of Heidelberg, And..... More
A Valuable Assistant to Every Man, Or, The American Clerk's Magazine..
"Calculated for the Use of the Citizens of the United States" Freeman, Samuel [1743-1831]. A Valuable Assistant to Every Man: Or the American Clerk's Magazine. Containing the Most Useful and Necessary Forms of Writings, Which Commonly Occur Between Man and Man, Under the Names of Acquittances, Agreements, Assignments, Awards, Bargains..... More
The Trials of William S Smith and Samuel G Ogden for Misdemeanors...
Trial of the Leaders of the Ill-Fated Miranda Expedition [Trials]. Smith, William S. [1755-1816], Defendant. Ogden, Samuel G. [1779-1860], Defendant. Lloyd, Thomas [1756-1827], Stenographer. The Trials of William S. Smith and Samuel G. Ogden for Misdemeanours had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the New-York District in..... More
Finnerty v Tipper: A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the...
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
Luther Martin of Maryland.
Clarkson, Paul S. Jett, R. Samuel. Luther Martin of Maryland. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1970. ix, 336 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket, price clipped. $25. More
Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. Written in Latin by...
A Landmark in the History of Natural and International Law Pufendorf, Samuel von. [Barbeyrac, Jean]. Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. Written in Latin by the Baron Pufendorf. Done Into English by Basil Kennett. Carefully Corrected, with Two Tables. To Which Are Added All the Large Notes..... More
A Hue & Cry After P and H and Plain Truth.
"I Do Not Love to be Idle, If There be Any Probability, Of Getting Money" [Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703)]. [Hewer, William]. A Hue & Cry After P. And H. And Plain Truth [Caption Title]. [London: S.n., 1679]. 8 pp. Folio (11-1/4" x 7-1/4"). Disbound pamphlet in later plain wrappers, pamphlet detached..... More
The Organs of Soviety Administration of Justice: Their History...
Kucherov, Samuel. Hazard, John N. The Organs of Soviety Administration of Justice: Their History and Operation. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970. xxiii, 754 pp. Hardcover, lightly worn. $30. More
Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, From the..
New Jersey's Last Colonial-Era Compilation [New Jersey]. Allinson, Samuel [1739-1791], Compiler. Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of Our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January 1776..... More
Poor Law to Poverty Program: Economic Security Policy in Britain...
Mencher, Samuel. Poor Law to Poverty Program: Economic Security Policy in Britain and the United States. [Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967. xiv, 476 pp. Hardcover in moderately worn dust jacket. Ink mark on bottom-edge of text block. $25. More
Lexicon Juridicum Romano-Teutonicum, Das Ist, Vollstandiges...
Final Edition of a Distinguished Latin-German Legal Dictionary Oberlander, Samuel [1692-1720]. Lexicon Juridicum Romano-Teutonicum, Das Ist, Vollstandiges Lateinisch-Teutsches Juristisches Hand-Lexicon: Darinnen die Meisten in Jure Civili, Canonico, Feudali, Camerali, & Saxonico Tam Electorali Quam Communi, Nicht Weniger in Jure Publico Romano-Germanico, Vorkommende Worter, So Wohl Nach Ihren Eigentlichen als Uneigentlichen..... More
Lexicon Juridicum Romano-Teutonicum, Das Ist, Vollstandiges...
The First Latin-German Legal Dictionary Oberlander, Samuel [1692-1720]. Lexicon Juridicum Romano-Teutonicum, Das Ist, Vollstandiges Lateinisch-Teutsches Juristisches Hand-Lexicon: Darinnen die Meisten in Jure Civili, Canonico, Feudali, Camerali, & Saxonico Tam Electorali Quam Communi, Nicht Weniger in Jure Publico Romano-Germanico, Vorkommende Worter, so Wohl Nach Ihren Eigentlichen als Uneigentlichen Verstand Deutlich Erklaret..... More
An Essay Concerning Parliaments at a Certainty, Or the Kalends of May.
How Often Should Parliament Meet? Johnson, Samuel [1649-1703]. An Essay Concerning Parliaments at a Certainty, Or the Kalends of May. Reprinted from the Second Edition Publisht in 1694, With Notes by the Editor. London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1817. viii, 47 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate..... More
The Divine Feudal Law. Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented...
Pufendorf, Samuel. Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics. The Divine Feudal Law. Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, [2002]. xix, 246 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2020. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $50. * The Divine..... More
Seven Charges Given to Grand Juries, At the General Quarter Sessions..
Seven Grand Jury Charges [Partridge, Samuel]. Seven Charges Given to Grand Juries, At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace. London: Sold by Lackington, Allen and Co., 1809. [x], 16, [4], 17-59, [1] pp. 4-pp. appendix misbound after p. 16. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light..... More
The Probate Auxiliary, Or, A Director and Assistant to Probate Courts.
Freeman's Probate Auxiliary Freeman, Samuel [1743-1831]. The Probate Auxiliary; Or, A Director and Assistant to Probate Courts, Executors, Administrators and Guardians. Being the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Respecting the Estates of Testators, Intestates and Wards. Carefully Collected. Together With a Comprehensive Alphabetical Index to the Same. To Which..... More
The Probate Directory, Or, An Assistant to Probate Courts, Executors..
Freeman's Probate Directory Freeman, Samuel. The Probate Directory; Or, An Assistant to Probate Courts, Executors, Administrators, And Guardians. Being the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Respecting the Estates of Testators, Intestates, And Wards. To Which are Added, A Variety of Forms, For the Use of Probate Courts, And Such..... More
A Valuable Assistant to Every Man, Or, The American Clerk's Magazine..
Printed by Isaiah Thomas Freeman, Samuel [1743-1831]. A Valuable Assistant to Every Man: Or, The American Clerk's Magazine. Containing the Most Useful and Necessary Forms of Writings, Which Commonly Occur Between Man and Man, Under the Names of Acquittances, Agreements, Assignments, Awards, Bargains, Bills, Bonds, Complaints, Conveyances, Covenants, Deeds, Feoffments..... More
The Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated. With Remarks on a Late Book..
The Rank of Judges in the Court of Chancery [Burroughs, Samuel (d.1761)]. The Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated. With Remarks on a Late Book, Intitled, A Discourse of the Judicial Authority Belonging to the Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1727..... More
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Second Edition, 1815.
A Popular Practitioner's Guide to Evidence Phillipps, S[amuel] M[arch]. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. London: Printed by A. Strahan for J. Butterworth and Son, 1815. xxxvi, 520 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Original plain publisher's boards, rebacked in paper retaining existing spine label, edges untrimmed. Moderate rubbing and..... More
Lex Vadiorum: The Law of Mortgages, Wherein is Treated, The Nature...
The First Treatise on Mortgage at Law and in Equity Carter, Samuel. Lex Vadiorum. The Law of Mortgages. Wherein is Treated, The Nature of Mortgages, Either by Deed Absolute, And the Several Sorts of Proviso's Therein; Or by Defeazance, Demise and Redemise, Covenant, Or Otherwise: With Special Clauses, Conditions, &c..... More
The Law of Executions: Or, A Treatise Shewing and Explaining the...
Scarce Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Executions C[arter], S[amuel]. The Law of Executions: Or, A Treatise Shewing and Explaining the Nature of Executions in Several Rules, And Who May Sue Execution or Not, And Against What Persons. By and Out of what Court Execution to be Awarded. The Several Sorts of Execution..... More
The Justice of Peace His Companion, Or a Summary of All the Acts...
A Primary Source for Later Manuals Blackerby, Samuel [d.1714]. Blackerby, Nathaniel. The Justice of Peace His Companion, Or a Summary of All the Acts of Parliament, Whereby One, Two, Or More Justices of the Peace, Are Authorized to Act, Not Only in, but Out of the Sessions of Peace. Alphabetically..... More