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A Trial Bound to Five Pamphlets on Social and Political Topics.
A Collection of Scarce Dublin Pamphlets in a Contemporary Binding [Great Britain]. [A Trial Bound with Five Pamphlets on Social and Political Topics]. Dublin, 1740-1747. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Together 6 titles. Contemporary calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Some minor nicks and..... More
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The Gentleman's Recreation [and Abridgment of Manwood's Forest Laws].
Legal Guidelines for Well-Born Sportsmen Cox, Nicholas [fl.1673-1721]. [Manwood, John (d.1610)]. The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing: Wherein Those Generous Exercises are Largely Treated of; And the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking, More Amply Enlarged than Heretofore: Also the Method of Breeding and..... More
La Sept Part des Reports Sr Edw Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...
First Edition of Coke's Reports, Part Seven, Which Includes Calvin's Case Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. La Sept Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Des divers Resolutions & Iudgements done sur Solemne Arguments & Avec Grand Deliberation & Conference des Tresreverend Iudges & Sages de..... More
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The Gentleman's Recreation [and Abridgment of Manwood's Forest Laws].
Legal Guidelines for Well-Born Sportsmen Cox, Nicholas [fl.1673-1721]. [Manwood, John (d.1610)]. The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing: Wherein Those Generous Exercises are Largely Treated of; And the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking, More Amply Enlarged than Heretofore: Also the Method of Breeding and..... More
Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law Taken by Those Late and Most...
Reports of Brownlow and Goldesborough, 1569-1625 Brownlow, Richard [1553-1638]. Goldesborough, John [1568-1618]. Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law Taken by Those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow, And John Goldesborough, Esquires. The First Part. With Directions How to Proceed in Many Intricate Actions, Both..... More
Placita Anglo-Normannica, Law Cases from William I. to Richard I....
Bigelow, Melville M. [1846-1921]. Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Preserved in Historical Records. Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1879. [ii], lxiv, 328 pp. Original cloth, binding slightly cocked, a few stains to boards, some wear to spine ends and corners, hinges cracked, owner bookplate to..... More
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Adolf Eichmann/Adolf Aikhman [Transcription of Interrogation].
The Interrogation of Adolf Eichmann [Trial]. Eichmann, Adolf [1906-1962], Defendant. Less, Avner W. [1916-1987], Interrogator. Adolf Eichmann [=] Adolf Aickman [Transcription of Interrogation]. [Jerusalem]: Police d'Israel, Quartier General, 6-eme Bureau, 1961. Six volumes (3564 columns), oblong octavo, bound into two books. Text in German with parallel Hebrew translation. Prefatory material..... More
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Arches and Prerogative..
"A Valuable Record in Every Way" Phillimore, Joseph [1775-1855]. [Lee, Sir George (1700-1758)]. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Arches and Prerogative Courts of Canterbury, And in the High Court of Delegates: Containing the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir George Lee. London: Saunders and Benning, Law Booksellers..... More
Praelectiones in Duodecim Libros Codicis Justiniani Imp...
Important Commentaries on Justinian Perez, Antonio [1583-1673 (?1674)]. Praelectiones in Duodecim Libros Codicis Justiniani Imp. Quib. Leges Omnes, Et Authenticae Perpetua Serie Explicantur, Mores Hodierni Inferuntur, & Quid Sit Juris Antiqui, Novi, & Novissimi, Enodatur, Ac Breviter Exponitur. Editio Novissima ad Exemplarium Veterum Formam Exacta; Sed Mendis, Quibus Priora Belgica..... More
Decisions of the Court of Session, From the Year 1733 to the Year...
Digested Decisions of the Court of Session, 1733-1754 Elchies, Patrick Grant, Lord [1690-1754]. Morison, William M. [b. 1821], Editor. Decisions of the Court of Session, From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754. Collected and Digested into the Form of a Dictionary, by Patrick Grant of Elchies, Esq. One of..... More
Einleitung zum Jure Civili, Nach Ordnung der Institutionum...
A Popular Eighteenth-Century German Textbook on Roman Law Schoppach, Johann Michael. Einleitung zum Jure Civili, Nach Ordnung der Institutionum Imperialium Zusammen Getragen, Und Aus Liebe vor die Angehend-Studirende Jugend ans Licht Gegeben. Nunmehro aber mit Dienlich- und Hinlanglichen Allegatis Versehen. Regensburg: Verlegts Johann Conrad Peetz, 1730. [xvi], 430 pp. Copperplate..... More
Letters and Other Documents of Prominent Jewish Rhode Island Lawyer...
The Busy Life of a Prominent Jewish Rhode Island Lawyer and Civic Leader [Manuscript Archive]. [Lawyers]. [Levy, Arthur J. (1897-1972)]. [Letters and Other Documents of Prominent Jewish Rhode Island Lawyer and Civic Leader Arthur J. Levy]. Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York, 1917-1931. 365 items comprising single-leaf, bifolio and multipage..... More
Abstract of an Act of Parliament Made in the 32d Year of the Reign...
"Rogues, Vagabonds, And Other Idle and Disorderly Persons" [Broadside]. [Rogues and Vagabonds]. [Great Britain]. Abstract of an Act of Parliament Made in the 32d Year of the Reign of King Geo. the 3d, To Explain and Amend an Act Made in the 17th Year of the Reign of King Geo..... More
Les Reports du Treserudite Edmund Anderon Chivalier, Nadgairs...
Highly Regarded by Wallace and Sugden Anderson, Sir Edmund [1530-1605]. Les Reports du Treserudite Edmund Anderson Chivalier, Nadgairs, Seigniour Chief Justice del Common-Bank. Des Mults Principals Cases Argues & Adjuges en le Temps del Jadis Roign Elizabeth Cibien en le Common-Bank Come Devant Touts les Juges de Cest Roialme, Colligees..... More
The Decisions of the Court of Session, From the Month of November...
Decisions of Scotland's Supreme Civil Court, 1744-1751 Falconer, David, Lord Falconer of Halkerton [1681-1751]. The Decisions of the Court of Session. From the Month of November 1744. Edinburgh: Printed by Wal. and Tho. Ruddimans, 1746. 2 volumes in one book. [iv], 127, [5], 129-392, [22]; [iv], 335 pp. Volume I...... More
Verschiedene Juristische Schriften, Nemlich, I Drey Bucher vom Erb...
Collected Works by a Notable Salzburg Jurist on Marriage, Estates and Small Animals Pegie, Martin [1523-1592]. [Perneder, Andreas (c.1500-1543)]. Verschiedene Juristische Schriften, Nemlich: I. Drey Bucher vom Erb-Bau-Recht. II. Juristische Ergotzlichkeiten vom Hunde-Tauben-Und Huner-Recht. III. Vollkommener Unterricht von Recht und Freyheiten derer Henraths-Guter und Aller dahim Gehorigen Bedingnissen. IV. Schau-Platz..... More
Recueil des Loix Constitutives des Colonies Angloises, Confederees...
The First Collection of American Constitutions, Includes the First Printing of the Declaration of Independence in French [Regnier, Claude-Ambroise, Compiler]. Recueil des Loix Constitutives des Colonies Angloises: Confederees sous la Denomination d'Etats-Unis de l'Amerique-Septentrionale: Auquel on a Joint les Actes d'Independance, de Confederation & Autres Actes du Congres General. Dedie..... More
Schreiben eines Bayern an Seinem Freund uber die Moglichkeit der...
Ways to Abolish Begging [Begging]. [Germany]. Schreiben eines Bayern an Seinen Freund uber die Moglichkeit der Ganzlichen Abstellung des Bettelns und der Versorgung der Armen in einem Land. Nuremberg: Bey Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1774. 55 pp. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain wrappers, early hand-lettered title to front. Light..... More
Charles Dickens and the Law.
Fyfe, Thomas Alexander. Charles Dickens and the Law. Originally published: Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co., 1910. 79 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776666; ISBN-10: 1584776668. Smythe sewn, cloth bound hardcover with black spine lettering and decorative front cover. Bar code label on back cover. Fine. $35..... More
A Compendious and Accurate Treatise of Fines upon Writs of Covenant...
A Notable Early English Text on Real Estate Law [Brown, William]. A Compendious and Accurate Treatise of Recoveries upon Writs of Entry in the Post and Fines upon Writs of Covenant: And Recoveries upon Writs of Entry in the Post; With Ample and Copious Instructions How to Draw, Acknowledge, And..... More
Police Court Pictures at Richmond, Virginia.
"The Lighted Candle of Crime" Burton, Peter J. Police Court Pictures at Richmond, Virginia. Richmond: C.N. Williams, 1892. [iv], 84, [4] pp. Includes eleven pages of advertisements. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial wrappers. Light soiling, some rubbing to spine with wear to ends, light browning to interior..... More
A Compleat Journal of the Votes, Speeches and Debates, Both of the...
Valuable Source on Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments D'Ewes, Sir Simonds [1602-1650], Compiler. Bowes, Paul [d. 1702], Editor. A Compleat Journal of the Votes, Speeches and Debates, Both of the House of Lords and House of Commons Throughout the Whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Of Glorious Memory. Collected by that Eminent Member..... More
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Les Reports de Gulielme Benloe [With] Les Reports des Divers Special..
Two Well-Respected Reporters Benloe, William [1516-1584], Reporter. Les Reports de Gulielme Benloe Serjeant del Ley, Des Divers Pleadings et Cases en le Court del Common-Bank, En le Several Roignes de les tres Hault & Excellent Princes, Le Roy Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edw. VI. & le Roignes Mary & Elizabeth..... More
Les Reports de Sir John Savile, Second and final edition.
Final Edition of Savile's Exchequer Court Reports Savile, Sir John [1545-1607]. Les Reports de Sir John Savile Chevalier, Nadgairis Baron de l'Excequer, De Divers Special Cases Cybien en le Court de Common Bank, Come l'Exchequer en le Temps de Royne Elizabeth. Ovesque Deux Tables; l'un des Nosmes des Cases, l'Auter..... More
The Trial of Katherine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie For the Crimes of
Incest and Murder in Edinburgh [Trial]. Nairn, Katherine, Defendant. Ogilvie, Patrick [d.1765], Defendant. The Trial of Katherine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie, For the Crimes of Incest and Murder. Containing the Whole Procedure of the High Court of Judiciary, Upon the 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, And 16th Days of August..... More