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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. 2 vols. 3rd American ed.
Early American Edition of a Classic Treatise on Evidence Phillips, S[amuel] March [1780-1862]. Dunlap, John A. [1793?-1858?], Notes. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. With Notes and References to American Authorities, By John A. Dunlap, And Additional Notes and References by a Gentleman of the New-York Bar. New York..... More
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Decretus Gratiani Cu[m] Glossis D[omi]ni Joannis Theutonici...
Handsome Illustrated Giunta Edition of the Decretum Gratiani Gratian the Canonist [c. 1090-c.1160]. Johannes Teutonicus (or Zeneka) [d.1253], Glossator. Bartolomeo da Brescia (d.1258), Glossator. Martinus, Polonus [d. 1279], Margariti Decreti. Joannes, Diaconus Hispanus, Flos Decreti. Decretus Gratiani Cu[m] Glossis D[omi]ni Joannis Theutonici Prepositi Alberstatensis [et] Annotationibus Bartholomei Brixiensis, Divisionibus Archidiaconi..... More
Questions Notables du Droit. Grenoble, 1668.
Heavily Annotated Work on Inheritance and Family Law Du Perier, Scipion [1588-1667]. Questions Notables du Droit. Grenoble: Chez Jean Nicolas, 1668. [xxxvi], 352, 355-413, [1] pp. Collates complete. Quarto (8-3/4" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt decoration to compartments, edges speckled red. Light..... More
Ordonnances et Reglemens Relatifs a l'Etablissement des Titres...
Rare 1818 Collection of French Laws Concerning Nobles [Nobility]. [France]. Ordonnances et Reglemens Relatifs a l'Etablissement des Titres Hereditaires, Aux Lettres de nobless, &c. &c. Arretes et Avis de la Commission du Sceau. Deuxieme Recueil. [Paris]: S.n., 1818. [ii], 240 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Stab-stitched, plain wrappers, front wrapper..... More
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Decretales Epistolae Gregorii Noni [With] Sextus Decretalium Liber...
Milestones in the Codification of Canon Law Gregory IX, Pope [1227-1241]. Raymond of Penaforte, Saint [1175?-1275], Compiler. [Bottoni, Bernardo (d.1266), Glosses]. [D'Andrea, Giovanni (c.1270-1348), Glosses]. Decretales Epistolae Gregorii Noni Pontificis Maximi, Quas Summa Fide & Accurata Diligentia: Iam Recens ad Veterum Codicum Fidem Repurgavimus & Contulimus. Cum Additionibus Doctiss. Virorum..... More
Ordonnance de Louis XIV, Roy de France et de Navarre. Donnee a Saint
With Annotations by a Contemporary Law Professor [France]. [Civil Procedure]. [Colbert, Jean-Baptiste (1619-1683)]. Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre[1643-1715]. Ordonnance de Louis XIV. Roy de France et de Navarre. Donnee a Saint Germain en Laye au Mois d'Avril 1667. Paris: Chez les Associez Choisis par Ordre de Sa Maieste..... More
A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut, In Six Books. 2 vols
The First American Legal Text Swift, Zephaniah [1759-1823]. A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut. In Six Books. Windham, CT: Printed by John Byrne for the Author, 1795-1796. Two volumes. vii [i.e. iv], 452; v, [1], 479, [12] pp. With a folding copperplate table of descents and..... More
The Lawyer, His Character and Rule of Holy Life After the Manner...
A Lawyer of "Ideal Holiness" O'Brien, Edward [1808-1840]. The Lawyer, His Character and Rule of Holy Life, After the Manner of George Herbert's Country Parson. London: William Pickering, 1842. xx, 284, [4] pp. Includes four-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Light..... More
Coustumes du Haut et Bas Pays d'Auvergne, Avec la Paraphrase de...
1667 Auvergne Coutumier, Heavily Annotated by a Deputy of the Third Estate Basmaison-Pougnet, Jean de [1535?-1600?]. Du Moulin, Charles [1500-1566], Annotator. Consul, Guillame, Editor. Grenier, Jean-Baptiste [1753-1838], Former Owner. Coustumes du Haut et Bas Pays d'Auvergne, Avec la Paraphrase de M. Jean de Basmaison Pouguet, Advocat en la Senechaussee d'Auvergne..... More
Trial of James Stewart. Notable Scottish Trials. First edition. 1907.
A Trial that Inspired Stevenson [Trial]. Stewart, James [c.1698-1752], Defendant. Trial of James Stewart. The Appin Murder. Ed. by David N. Mackay. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1907]. Notable Scottish Trials. Title page printed in red and black. xvi, 369 pp. Frontispiece and illustration depicting the site of..... More
Trial of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors. Notable Scottish Trials.
One of the Greatest Commercial Scandals in Scotland's History [Trial]. Wallace, William, Editor. Trial of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1905]. [x], 472 pp. Frontispiece, and 11 full page illustrations. Original green cloth, lightly rubbed, top-edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom-edges, gilt..... More
Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan. First edition. Notable Scottish Trials
First Edition, Inscribed by William Roughead [Trial]. M'Lachlan, Jessie [1834?-1899], Defendant. Roughead, William [1870-1952], Editor. Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1911]. Notable Scottish Trials. c, 339 pp. 9 plates, 1 folding. Frontispiece. 4 pp. publisher advertisement (for Notable British Trials). Original cloth, gilt title..... More
Ordonnance de Son Altesse Royale, Pour l'Administration de la Justice.
A Scarce Volume of Laws of Lorraine Enriched with Contemporary Annotations [Lorraine]. Ordonnance de Son Altesse Royale, Pour l'Administration de la Justice. Donnee a Luneville au Mois de Novembre 1707. Nouvelle Edition. Revue, Corrigee & Augmentee. Nancy: Chez Jean-Baptiste Cusson, 1725. Two volumes with continuous pagination. [xvi], 204, 367-390; 205-334..... More
Code Civil Annote des Dispositions et Decisions Ulterieures de la...
Extensively Annotated, Wide-Margined Edition of the Code Napoleon [Code Napoleon]. Sirey, J[ean]-B[aptiste] [1762-1845]. Code Civil Annote: Des Dispositions et Decisions Ulterieures de la Legislation & De la Jurisprudence, Avec Renvoi, Pour l'Indication des Matieres, Aux Quatre Principaux Recueils de Jurisprudence, Qui ont ete Publies, Depuis Treize Ans, Dans la Capitale..... More
Leggi, E Costituzioni di Sua Maesta/Loix et Constitutions... 2 vols.
Scarce 1770 Digest of Sardinian Laws with Extensive Early Manuscript Annotations [Sardinia, Kingdom of]. Leggi, E Costituzioni di Sua Maesta/Loix et Constitutions de sa Majeste. Turin: Nella Stamperia Reale, 1770. Turin: Nella Stamperia Reale, 1770. Two volumes. xii, 504; 574, [2] pp. Two-column text, Italian with parallel French translation. Interleaved..... More
Collected Legal Papers. First edition, Inscribed by Holmes.
Inscribed by Holmes to a Former Clerk Who Became a Prominent Lawyer, Businessman and Philanthropist Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. vii, 316 pp. Original cloth, printed paper title label to spine, deckle edges. Light fading to spine and joints, a...... More
Trial of Captain Porteous, First Edition 1909, Inscribed by Roughead.
First Edition, Inscribed by William Roughead [Trial]. Porteous, John [d. 1736], Defendant. Roughead, William [1870-1952], Editor. Trial of Captain Porteous. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1909]. 366 pp. Frontispiece. 14 plates, 1 folding. 5 pp. publisher catalogue. Original cloth, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Light rubbing..... More
Trial of Oscar Slater. First edition, 1910. Notable Scottish Trials.
Inscribed by William Roughead [Trial]. Slater, Oscar [1872-1948], Defendant. Roughead, William [1870-1952], Editor. Trial of Oscar Slater. Edinburgh and Glasgow: William Hodge & Company, [1910]. Frontispiece and 14 additional illustrations, including two folding maps. lxxx, 321 pp. Original cloth, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Light shelf wear. "George..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and..
Nicholas St. John Green's Edition of Story on Agency Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Green, Nicholas St. John [1830-1876], Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874. xl, 706 pp..... More
A Summary of Colonial Law, The Practice of the Court of Appeals...
An Important Work for the Study of Britain's Colonial System Clark, Charles [d. 1881]. A Summary of Colonial Law, The Practice of the Court of Appeals from the Plantations, And of the Laws and Their Administration in All the Colonies: With Charters of Justice, Orders in Council, &c. &c. &c..... More
In Memoriam, Verses Written on the Barrowford Tragedy, March 4th 1897.
"Not Content With Strife He Took Away a Life" [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Nowell, Sarah Ann]. In Memoriam, Verses Written on the Barrowford Tragedy, March 4th 1897. [Barrowford, Lancashire (?): S.n., 1897]. 11-1/4" x 8-1/4" broadside, woodcut vignette of a tomb above large headline, main text printed in parallel columns, thick black..... More
Horrible Murder Committed in the Parish of Kilbarchan, On the 20th...
"With an Account of the Apprehension of the Unnatural Mother" [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Wood, Isabella (d.1823)]. Horrible Murder Committed in the Parish of Kilbarchan, On the 20th Day of September Last, on the Body of Isabella Wood, A Girl About 10 Years of Age, By Her Own Mother.... Glasgow: John Muir..... More
The Life, Trial, And Execution of Jane Robinson, Who Was Executed...
"Brought to an Ignominious Death by Keeping Bad Company and Giving Way to Bad Advice" [Broadside]. [Execution]. [Robinson, Jane (1798 or 1799-1821)]. The Life, Trial, And Execution of Jane Robinson Who was Executed at the New Drop, London, On Saturday, June 9, 1821, For Being Concerned in Robbing and Murdering..... More
The Malefactor's Register; Or,The Newgate and Tyburn Calendar, 6 vols
"A General Display of the Progress and Consequence of Vice," Illustrated with 55 Copperplates [C][Criminals]. [Great Britain]. The Malefactor's Register; Or, The Newgate and Tyburn Calendar. Containing the Authentic Lives, Trials, Accounts of Executions, And Dying Speeches, Of the Most Notorious Violators of the Laws of Their Country; Who have..... More
The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of Wm....
"The Source of Forgery, Robbery, Murder And General Demoralization" [Thurtell, John (1794-1824)]. [Probert, William (d.1825)]. [Hunt, Joseph]. The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of Wm. Weare and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, The Murderer and His Accomplices: With Biographical Sketches of the Parties Concerned and..... More