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Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports of Decisions of the... 2 vols
Randolph, Sir John [c.1693-1737], Reporter. Barradall, Edward [1704-1743], Reporter. 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. 2 Volumes. xxviii, 250, 118; 394 pp. Frontispiece. A married set, tan buckram, red..... More
A History of English Law. 17 vols. Complete set.
An Indispensable Work of Great Authority Holdsworth, Sir William S. A History of English Law. Edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury. With an Introductory Essay and Additions by S.B. Chrimes. Index volume prepared by John Burke. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., and Sweet & Maxwell, 1966-1997. 17 Volumes, complete..... More
Holmes-Pollock Letters [and] Frederick Pollock and the English...
In a Handsome Slipcase Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Pollock, Sir Frederick [1845-1937]. Howe, Mark DeWolfe [1906-1967], Editor. Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932. With an Introduction by John Gorham Palfrey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Two volumes in publisher pictorial slipcase. Plates. xxii..... More
The Hope of the Briefless; Or, The Cradle of Crime.
"The Last Recorded Syllable of Time Shall Throb to Human Weakness, Want, And Crime" [Legal Poetry]. [Eardley-Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1810-1892), Attributed]. The Hope of the Briefless; Or, The Cradle of Crime. [London?]: Printed for private circulation, [c.1850]. 7 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in later three-quarter..... More
Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books, 5th ed. Eller 7...
First Oxford Edition in Octavo of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1773. Four volumes. [xii], 485; [viii], 520, xix; [viii], 455, xxvii; [viii], 443, vii..... More
The Lives Of The Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest.
Campbell, Sir John [1779-1801]. The Lives Of The Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Mansfield. Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lee, 1851. 2 volumes. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2"). Contemporary sheep, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spines, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing..... More
The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England: Collected...
The King Must Consult with Parliament [Cotton, Sir Robert (1571-1631)]. The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England: Collected Our of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome. Wherin is Manifested the Customary Uses of the Kings of England Upon All Occasions, Either of Marriage, Peace or Warre..... More
An Essay on the Law of Bailments. Brattleboro, VT, 1813.
Attractive Brattleboro Imprint of Jones on Bailments Jones, Sir William [1746-1794]. Balmanno, John, Introduction, Notes. An Essay on the Law of Bailments. With Introductory Remarks, and Notes, Comprising the Most Modern Authorities. Brattleboro, VT: Printed by William Fessenden, 1813. [12], 144, xxi pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary sheep, lettering..... More
An Essay on the Law of Bailments. Boston, 1796.
The First American Edition of Jones on Bailments Jones, Sir William [1746-1794]. An Essay on the Law of Bailments. Boston: From the Press of Samuel Etheridge, For John West, 1796. 178, [1] pp. 12mo. (6-3/4" x 4"). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to board edges, lettering piece and blind fillets to..... More
The History of Contempt of Court: The Form of Trial and The...
Fox, Sir John C. The History of Contempt of Court: The Form of Trial and the Mode of Punishment. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. xxiii, 252 pp. Publisher's original red cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Very good, in a very good dust jacket. $100. More
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England.
First Critical Edition of Coke on Littleton, With Notes by Hargrave and Butler [C]Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. Hargrave, Francis [1741?-1821], Editor. Butler, Charles [1750-1832], Editor. Hale, Sir Matthew [1609-1676]. [Finch, Heneage, Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682)]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England or, A Commentary upon..... More
The Bloody Assize.
Parry, Sir Edward. The Bloody Assize. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1929. Illustrations, frontispiece, 301 pp. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover, spine lightly faded. $25. * Contents: Book I. Sowing the wind: Lucy Walter. Monmouth. Titus Oates. George Jeffreys. The Popish plot. Trial of..... More
A Letter to the Honorable Judge Story, LLD, Discovering...
A Mathematical Correction of Blackstone Lee, John. [Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)]. A Letter to the Honorable Judge Story, LL.D., Discovering and Correcting the Errors of Blackstone and His Editors, On the Theory of Human Genealogy and Kindred, And Destroying the Concomitant Fallacious Inductions of Eternal Pre-Existing Population, And the Physical..... More
Year Books of Edward II, Vol XIII, 6 Edward II A.D. 1312-1313
Vinogradoff, Sir Paul, Editor. Ehrlich, Ludwik, Editor. Edward II, King of England (1284-1327). Year Books of Edward II. Vol. XIII. 6 Edward II A.D. 1312-1313. [Year Books Series Volume XIII] London: Bernard Quaritch, 1918. liv, [errata page], [1], 250 leaves, 251-281 pp. Selden Society Volume 34 (1917). The main text..... More
The Third Part of the Institutes [Bound with] The Fourth Part of the..
Early Editions of Coke's Third and Fourth Institutes Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, And Other Pleas of the Crown, And Criminal Causes. London: Printed by W. Rawlins, For Thomas Basset, 1680. [vi], 243, [20] pp. Lacking portrait..... More
A Book of Entries, Containing Perfect and Approved Presidents...
Final, Corrected, Edition of Coke's Book of Entries [Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)]. A Book of Entries: Containing Perfect and Approved Presidents of Counts, Declarations, Informations, Pleints, Indictments, Barres, Replications, Rejoynders, Pleadings, Processes, Continuances, Essoines, Issues, Defaults, Departure in Despight of the Court, Demurrers, Trialls, Judgements, Executions, And all Other Matters..... More
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England.
The First Critical Edition of Coke on Littleton [C]Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. Hargrave, Francis [1741?-1821], Editor. Butler, Charles [1750-1832], Editor. Hale, Sir Matthew [1609-1676]. [Finch, Heneage, Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682)]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England or, A Commentary upon Littleton. Not the Name of..... More
A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown, Adjudged and...
The First Set of Reports Devoted to Criminal Law Kelyng, Sir John [d. 1671]. A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown, Adjudged and Determined; In the Reign of the Late King Charles II. With Directions for Justices of the Peace and Others. Collected by Sir John Kelyng..... More
Reports of Cases... Dublin, 1794
The Best Edition of Dyer's Important Reports Dyer, Sir James [1512-1582]. [Vaillant, John, Editor and Translator]. Reports of Cases in the Reigns of Hen. VIII. Edw. VI. Q. Mary, and Q. Eliz. Now First Translated, With Additional References to the Latest Books of Authority, Marginal Abstracts of the Points Determined..... More
A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer...
The Aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising [Foster, Sir Michael (1689-1763)]. A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal [sic] Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry, And of Other Crown Cases. To Which are..... More
The Jurisdiction of the Lords House, Or Parliament, Considered..
"The Most Important of [Hale's] Books on the Constitutional Law" Hale, Sir Matthew [1609-1676]. Hargrave, Francis [1741?-1821], Editor. The Jurisdiction of the Lords House, Or Parliament, Considered According to Antient Records. To Which is Prefixed, By the Editor, An Introductory Preface, Including a Narrative of the Same Jurisdiction from the..... More
Two Dialogues in English Between a Doctour of Divinity, And a...
A Work that Influenced Blackstone [C] [St. German (Germain), Christopher]. Two Dialogues in English Between a Doctour of Divinity, And a Student in the Laws of England, Of the Grounds of the Said Laws, And of Conscience. Newly Revised and Reprinted. London: Printed by John Streeter, Eliz. Flesher, And Henry..... More
Minor Practicks, Or, a Treatise of the Scottish Law...
A Handy Guide to Scots Civil Law Circa 1726 Hope, Sir Thomas [1580?-1646]. Minor Practicks, Or, a Treatise of the Scottish Law. To Which is Subjoined, A Discourse On the Rite and Progress of the Law of Scotland: And an Alphabetical Abridgment of the Acts of Sederunt, From the Restoration..... More
The Parson's Counsellor, With the Law of Tithes or Tithing, In Two...
Influential English Treatise on Tithes and Tithing Degge, Sir Simon [1612-1704]. The Parson's Counsellor, With the Law of Tithes or Tithing. In Two Books. The First Sheweth, The Order Every Parson, Vicar, &c. Ought to Observe in Obtaining a Spiritual Preferment, And What Duties are Incumbent upon Him After the..... More
Minor Practicks, Or, a Treatise of the Scottish Law...
A Handy 1726 Guide to Scots Civil Law Hope, Sir Thomas [1580?-1646]. Minor Practicks, Or, a Treatise of the Scottish Law. To Which is Subjoined, A Discourse On the Rite and Progress of the Law of Scotland: And an Alphabetical Abridgment of the Acts of Sederunt, From the Restoration to..... More