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Formulae Bene Placitandi, A Book of Entries, Containing Variety...
A Scarce Collection of Entries B[rown(e)], W[illiam]. Formulae Bene Placitandi. A Book of Entries: Containing Variety of Choice Precedents of Counts, Declarations, Informations, Pleas in Barre and in Abatement, Continuances, Replications, Rejoynders, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments After Verdict, Utlaries, Recoveries, & Avowries: And Divers Other Pleadings in Reall, Personall and Mixt.....
An Institute of the Law of Scotland, In Four Books, In the Order...
A Great Authority on the Law of Scotland Erskine, John, Of Carnock [1695-1768]. An Institute of the Law of Scotland. In Four Books. In the Order of Sir George Mackenzie's Institutions of that Law. Enlarged by Additional Notes, Containing the Latter Decisions of the Supreme Court on Many Interesting Points;...
(Slip Opinion) Patterson v McLean Credit Union, Certiorari, Signed...
Pre-US Reports Printing of a Notable Supreme Court Racial Discrimination Case Signed by Justice Kennedy Supreme Court of the United States. [Kennedy, Anthony]. (Slip Opinion) Patterson v McLean Credit Union, Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. [Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1989]. iv, 21...
(Slip Opinion) Eddings v Oklahoma, Certiorari to the Court, Inscribed.
Pre-US Reports Printing of an Important Supreme Court Decision Concerning the Death Penalty Inscribed by Justice Powell Supreme Court of the United States. [Powell, Lewis F. (1907-1998)]. (Slip Opinion) Eddings v Oklahoma, Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma. [Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982]. ii, 12, 3...
(Slip Opinion) City of Mesquite v Aladdin's Castle, Inc, Inscribed by.
Pre-US Reports Printing of a Supreme Court Decision Concerning Minors Inscribed by Justice Stevens Supreme Court of the United States. [Stevens, John Paul]. (Slip Opinion) City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, Inc. Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982]...
Insanity and Crime: A Medico-Legal Commentary on the Case of George..
A Curious 1864 Case Involving Murder and Insanity Editors of the Journal of Mental Science. Insanity and Crime: A Medico-Legal Commentary on the Case of George Victor Townley. London: John Churchill and Sons, 1864. 47, [1] pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet with untrimmed edges bound into recent cloth...
Report of a Trial in the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Boston...
An Alleged Libel on Daniel Webster [Trial]. Lyman, Theodore, Jr. [1792-1849], Defendant. Whitman, John W. [1798-1833], Reporter. Report of a Trial in the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Boston, Dec. 16th and 17th, 1828, Of Theodore Lyman, Jr., For an Alleged Libel on Daniel Webster, A Senator of the United...
Remarks on the Trial of Robert Reid, For the Murder of His Wife...
Discussion of an 1834 Murder Case by a "Medical Advisor" to the Defense Counsel Fletcher, John [1792-1836]. Remarks on the Trial of Robert Reid, For the Murder of His Wife, Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th of June, 1835. Edinburgh : John Carfrae & Son...
The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for..
"A Constant Reminder that Innocent Persons Can Be Convicted" [Trial]. Boorn, Stephen, Defendant. Boorn, Jesse, Defendant. Sargeant, Leonard [1793-1880], Reporter. The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for the Murder of Russell Colvin, And the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Murdered. Manchester, VT: Journal...
Trial of Daniel Davis Farmer, For the Murder of the Widow Anna Ayer.
He Beat Her to Death with a Shovel [Trial]. Farmer, Daniel Davis [1793-1822], Defendant. Rogers, Artemas, Reporter. Chase, Henry B., Reporter. Trial of Daniel Davis Farmer, For the Murder of the Widow Anna Ayer, At Goffstown, On the 4th of April, A.D. 1821. Concord [NH]: Published by Hill and Moore...
Cases Argued and Determined, In the High Court of Chancery, In the...
A Scarce Set of Eighteenth-Century Chancery Reports Vesey (Vezey), Francis [1721?-1804]. Cases Argued and Determined, In the High Court of Chancery, In the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, From the Year 1746-7, To 1755. With Tables, Notes, And References. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, 1773. Two volumes...
Crim Con!! Damages Fifteen Thousand Pounds! Fairburn (Senior's)...
The Largest Award Granted in an English Adultery Case [Trial]. Mildmay, Sir Henry [1787-1848], Defendant. [Cruikshank, George (1792-1878), Frontispiece]. Crim Con!! Damages Fifteen Thousand Pounds! Fairburn (Senior's) Edition of the Trial Between Lord Roseberry and Sir Henry Mildmay, For Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife; Before J. Birchall, Esq. At...
The Trial of Albert J Tirrell, Charged with the Murder of Mrs Maria.
Not in McDade [Trial]. Tirrell, Albert J, Defendant. The Trial of Albert J. Tirrell, Charged with the Murder of Mrs. Maria A. Bickford. Before the Suprteme Court in Boston. Boston: Daily Mail Report-Full and Complete, [1846]. 37 pp. Text in parallel columns. Portraits. Illustrations. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched...
The Trial and Respite of George Victor Townley for Wilful Murder...
Trial Notable for "Dr. Winslow's Analysis of the Convict's Mind" [Trial]. Townley, George Victor [b. 1838], Defendant. The Trial and Respite of George Victor Townley for Wilful Murder. With Original Documents and Correspondence Now First Published; Dr. Winslow's Analysis of the Convict's Mind, Portraits, Autographs and Plan. Derby: W. Bemrose...
Trial of the Case of the Commonwealth Versus David Lee Child, For...
A Notable Trial that Pitted Freedom of the Press Against the Law of Libel [Trial]. Child, David Lee [1794-1874], Defendant. Whitman, John W. [1798-1833], Reporter. Trial of the Case of the Commonwealth Versus David Lee Child, For Publishing in the Massachusetts Journal a Libel on the Honorable John Keyees, Before...
Trial and Conviction of Dr Stephen T Beale; With the Letters...
Raped Under Anesthesia by Her Dentist [Trial]. Beale, Stephen T., Defendant. Trial and Conviction of Dr. Stephen T Beale; With the Letters of Chief Justice Lewis, And Judges Black and Woodward, On His Case. Interesting Ether Cases, And the Letters of Prof. Gibson, Prof. Wiltbank, Wm. Badger, Esq., W.L. Hirst.....
The Trial of Professor John W Webster, for the Murder of Dr George...
Illustrated Account of "America's Classic Murder" [Trial]. Webster, John White [1793-1850], Defendant. Trial of Professor John W. Webster, For the Murder of Dr. George Parkman in the Medical College, November 23, 1849. Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk, March Term, Present Chief Justice Shaw, Associate Judges Wilde, Metcalf and Dewey. (...)...
Regiam Majestatem, The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland
Ancient Laws of Scotland Skene, John [?1543-1617]. Regiam Majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland, Faithfullie Collected Furth of the Register, And Other Auld Authentick Bukes, Fra the Dayes of King Malcolme the Second, Untill the Time of King James the First, Of Gude Memorie: And Trewlie Corrected in...
A Treatise on the Law of Idiocy and Lunacy; To Which is Subjoined...
First American Edition of One of The First Books on the Law of "Idiocy and Lunacy" Highmore, A[nthony] [1758-1829]. A Treatise on the Law of Idiocy and Lunacy. To Which is Subjoined an Appendix, Comprising a Selection of American Cases; In Which Some Important Subjects of This Treatise Have Been.....
The Reports of Several Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of...
"The Sense of the Court Truly Delivered" Fitz-Gibbons, John [d. 1780]. The Reports of Several Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster; With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer. In the I, II, III, IV, And V Years of...
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, From the...
"A Reporter of Acknowledged Accuracy. Carthew, Thomas. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, From the Third Year of King James the Second, To the Twelfth Year of King William the Third. Published by His Son Thomas Carthew, Of the Inner Temple, Esq. Corrected, With Many Thousand...
A Collection Of Sundry Statutes, Frequent in Use, With Notes in the...
"A New Standard" Pulton, Ferdinando [1536-1618], Compiler. A Collection Of Sundry Statutes, Frequent in Use. With Notes in the Margent, And References to the Book Cases, And Books of Entries and Registers, Where they be Treated of. Together, With an Abridgment of the Residue which be Expired, Repealed, Altered, And...
An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the Several...
The First Significant Study of Parliamentary Elections [Carew, Thomas (1702-1766)]. An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the Several Counties, Cities, And Boroughs of Great Britain: Collected from Public Records, And Journals of Parliament, To the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Four. London: Printed for John Nourse...
Committee of Inquiry into the Case of Mr Adolf Beck, Report from the..
A Notorious Case of Wrongful Conviction that Led to the Creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal [Great Britain]. [Home Office]. Committee of Inquiry into the Case of Mr. Adolf Beck. Report from the Committee; Together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, And Facsimiles of Various Documents. Presented to Both...
De Interpretandis Romanorum Litteris Opusculum, Rome, 1509.
With a Selection of Legal Abbreviations Probus, Marcus Velerius [c.20/30-105CE]. Philiscus (Pseudonym). Bonardi, Giovanni [active 15th c.], Editor. Aurispa, Giovanni [1376-1459], Translator (of Philiscus). De Interpretandis Romanorum Litteris Opusculum. Phylisci; Cosolatoria Marco Ciccroni Colloquenti Prestita dum in Macedonia Exultaret per Ioannem Aurispame Graeco in Latinum Traducta. [Rome: Giacomo Mazzocchi, April.....