Levy, Leonard W. A License to Steal: The Forfeiture of Property. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1996]. xvi, 272 pp. Publisher's black cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spine in a very good dust jacket. $15. * The author traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that..... More

Berger, Raoul. Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. xiv. 430 pp. Publisher's black cloth in lightly worn dust jacket. Very good. $20. * Challenges the historical bases of modern claims of executive privilege and cites the dangers of executive secrecy. "It is Berger's thesis that executive..... More

Blackstone Argues for the Restriction of the Franchise [Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)]. Considerations on the Question, Whether Tenants by Copy of Court Roll According to the Custom of the Manor, Though Not at the Will of the Lord, Are Freeholders Qualified to Vote in Elections for Knights of the Shire..... More

Ostracized for His Sympathy Towards Irish Convicts [Stanford, Sir Robert (1806-1877)]. Loyalty and its Reward; Or, Justice Versus Law, At the Cape of Good Hope, In the Nineteenth Century. Cape Town: Mathew, Chevens, And Bryant, Machine Printers, 1859. 255 pp. Leaves B1-3 (pp. 9-14) lacking and supplied in fascimile. Octavo..... More

An Expansion of the Quartering Act of 1774 [Great Britain]. [American Revolution]. [Mutiny in America Act 1775]. An Act to Amend and Render More Effectual in His Majesty's Dominions in America an Act, Passed in the Present Session of Parliament, Intituled, An Act for Punishing Mutiny and Desertion, And for..... More

Scarce 1726 Printing of Massachusetts Acts and Laws [Massachusetts]. The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Boston: Printed by B. Green, 1726. [ii], 14 pp. [Bound with] Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of..... More

"No Greater Nusance" Than a Lawyer [Purves, J.A.]. The Law and Lawyers Laid Open, In Twelve Visions. To Which Is Added, Plain Truth, In Three Dialogues, Between Truman, Skinall, Dryboots, Three Attornies, and Season a Bencher. London: Printed for T. Woodman and J. Chrichley, 1737. xlviii, 269, [3] pp. Publisher..... More

Catalogue of Noble Families by a Renowned English Historian Dugdale, William [1605-1686]. The Antient Usage in Bearing of Such Ensigns of Honour as are Commonly Call'd Arms. With a Catalogue of the Present Nobility and Baronets of England. To Which is Added, A Catalogue of the Present Nobility of Scotland..... More

c.1865 Carte-De-Visite of the Framers and Supporters of the 13th Amendment [Slavery]. [Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)]. [Carte De Visite of Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, House Speaker Schuyler Colfax and the Members of Congress Who Framed and Supported the 13th Amendment to the Constitution]. New York: Powell & Co., 1865 3-1/2"..... More

Eighteenth-Century English Law Bookseller's Catalogue Walthoe, John [1657?-1744], Bookseller. A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of this Realm; And Some Others Relating Thereunto, To Michaelmas Term, 1725. Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles. With an Account of the Best Editions, And Common Prices for which They are Now Sold..... More

"The First Printed Treatise on Common-Law Procedure" Powell, Thomas [1572?-1635?]. The Attourney's Academy: Or, The Manner and Forme of Proceeding Practically, Upon any Suite, Plaint or Action Whatsoever, In Any Court of Record Whatsoever, Within this Kingdome: Especially, In the Great Courts at Westminster, To Whose Motion All Other Courts..... More

Grand Jury Documents from Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania [Manuscript Archive]. [Pennsylvania]. [Six Manuscript Grand Jury Indictments]. [Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1832-1839]. Six documents, ranging in size from 5-1/4" x 3-1/4" to 6-1/2" x 3-1/4" (folded, averaging 12" x 7-3/4" unfolded), each with text to recto and docket to verso. Moderate toning, light soiling..... More

Bolingbroke's Classic Statement on the Nature of Government [Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount (1678-1751)]. The Freeholder's Political Catechism. London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1733. 24 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light soiling to exterior, light foxing to a few leaves, printing flaw to..... More