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Ragbag of Legal Quotations
McNamara, M. Frances. Ragbag of Legal Quotations. Albany: Matthew Bender & Company, 1960. xi, 334 pp. Reprinted 1992 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780963010636; ISBN-10: 0963010638. Hardcover. $25. * One of the best collections of legal quotations ever. McNamara's attractive and well-indexed volume provides over 2,000 quotations arranged under... More
The Law of Commons and Commoners; Or a Treatise Shewing the Original..
An Ancient English Right [Land Law]. [Great Britain]. The Law of Commons and Commoners; Or a Treatise Shewing the Original and Nature of Common, And the Several Kinds Thereof, Viz. Common Appendant, Appurtenant, Estover, Turbary, Peschary and Pur Cause of Vicinage, Of Commons in Gross, and Sans Number, With the... More
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Typed Letters, Signed, On Personal Letterhead [with] Press Photograph.
Justice Van Devanter Explains the Organization of the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts to an Inquiring Boy [Manuscript]. Van Devanter, Willis [1859-1941]. [Schwartz, Louis]. [Typed Letter, Signed, To Louis Schwartz, On Personal Letterhead, April 16, 1929]. Single-sided letter on two 10-1/2" x 8" sheets, signed "Willis Van Devanter." Light toning... More
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1783, 9 vols, 1777-1784.
The Indispensable Record of the Continental Congress, This Set Includes the Very Rare 1777 Aitken Printing of Volume II [United States]. [Continental Congress]. [Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1783]. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken [and others] 1777-1784. Nine volumes. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Later signed bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, three-quarer calf... More
Corpus Juris Militaris, das ist, ein Vollkommenes Krieges-Recht und...
Scarce Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Military Laws Hoyer, Eberhard. Schulze, Johann Friedrich. [Bocklin, Johann Christoph, Engraver]. Corpus Juris Militaris, Das ist, Ein Vollkommenes Krieges-Recht und Artickels-Brieffe Verschiedener Hohen Potentaten, Als, Kayser-und konigichen Majest. Churfurstl. Furstl. Durchl. des Heil. Rom. Reichs Republ. Und Andern Herrschafften, Welche mit Kriegs-Satzungen und Observat: Aufs Neue... More
Poster Depicting Lady Justice. 40" x 27" (102 x 69 cm)
"I Can Determine Guilt, But I Cannot Return Life" [Ivanov, D., Artist]. District Safety Commission. [Traffic-Safety Poster Depicting Lady Justice]. [N.p. (Bulgaria?), n.d.]. 40" x 27." Light edgewear with a few nicks and minor tears to margins, colors vivid. A well-preserved item. $750. * This bright blue poster is dominated... More
1854 Legal Interrogatory of a North Carolina Medical Doctor...
1854 Interrogatory Concerning the Mental Fitness of the Decedent in an Inheritance Case [Manuscript]. [Wills]. [Mental Fitness]. Lewis, Garrett. Skinner, Dr. W.C. [1854 Legal Interrogatory of a North Carolina Medical Doctor W.C. Skinner Concerning the Illness, Mental Fitness and Death of Garrett Lewis of Chester County, Pennsylvania]. [West Chester, Chester... More
Institutiones, Venice, Ottaviano Scoto, 18 January 1483.
1483 Venetian Imprint of the Institutes [Justinian I, Emperor of the East (483-565 CE)]. [Accorso, Francisco (Accursius) (c.1182-c.1260), Glossator]. [Institutiones]. [Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 18 January 1483]. Collation: a-p8. [119] ff. Lacking initial blank. Text in parallel columns. Main text surrounded by linear gloss. Folio (16-1/2" x 11"). Contemporary half vellum... More
Jus Civile Abbreviatum Redactum, Ad Definitiones, Distinctiones...
Scarce Spanish Textbook on the Institutes with an Unusual Format Jugla y Font, Antonio. Jus Civile Abbreviatum Redactum: Ad Definitiones, Distinctiones & Quaestiones, Clare & Breviter Definitas, & Singulos Institutionum, Seu Elementorum Justiniani Principis Libros, Ac Titulos, Breviter Atque Perspicue Persequentes, & Enucleantes. Madrid: [S.n.], 1796. [viii], [vi], 178 pp... More
The Law of Evidence, By a Late Learned Judge, In This Edition, The...
The First English Book on Evidence [Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey (1674-1726)]. The Law of Evidence. By a Late Learned Judge. In this Edition, The Errors in the Irish Edition have been Corrected, The Original References Carefully Compared, And Many New References Added, Particularly to the Late Sir John Strange's Reports. With... More
The Principles of the Law of Real and Personal Property; Being the...
An Update of the Parts of Blackstone's Commentaries Concerning Real and Personal Property Stewart, James [1805-1860], Editor. [Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)]. The Principles of the Law of Real and Personal Property; Being the Second Book of Blackstone's Commentaries: Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time. Revised, And Greatly Enlarged... More
An Essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions, With an Appendix...
First Edition of the First American Treatise on Patents Fessenden, Thomas G. [1771-1837]. An Essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions. With an Appendix Containing the French Patent Law, Forms, &c. Boston: Published by D. Mallory & Co., 1810. [2], [ix]-xxxix, [41]-229, [1] pp. Complete. Octavo (8-1/4" x.... More
A Treatise of Captures in War.
An Adaptation of Bynkershoek Lee, Richard. [Bynkershoek, Cornelis van (1673-1743)]. A Treatise of Captures in War. London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1759. viii, 264 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Later library cloth, red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light soiling, some chipping to lettering pieces, "T. Mitchell, 1807" to... More
The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
Scarce Nineteenth-Century Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence Pagan, J[ohn] M[acMichan] [1802-1868]. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. London: Ball, Arnold & Co., Glasgow: John Symington, 1840. iv, 327 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Later library cloth, red and black lettering pieces and paper shelf label to spine. Light shelfwear and soiling, minor... More
The Law For and Against Bankrupts: containing all the Statutes, Cases
A Scarce Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Bankruptcy [Great Britain]. Commissioner of Bankrupts. The Law For and Against Bankrupts: Containing all the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, Judgments and Decrees, Under the Head of Bankruptcy, Down to the Present Time. Wherein is Particularly Shewn, What Persons May be Bankrupts Within the... More
The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, 3 Vols. 1804.
Contains Important Early Commentaries on the U.S. Constitution Wilson, James [1742-1798]. Wilson, Bird [177-1859], Editor. The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D. Published under the Direction of Bird Wilson, Esquire. Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press, 1804. Three volumes. xvi, 467; vi, 497; iv, 439 pp. Volume I has stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece... More
Code of Practice in Civil Cases, for the State of Louisiana. 1830
Livingston's Influential Louisiana Civil Practice Code [Louisiana]. [Livingston, Edward (1764-1836)]. [Lislet-Moreau, Louis (1766-1832)]. [Derbigny, Pierre (1769-1829)]. Code of Practice in Civil Cases, for the State of Louisiana. New Orleans: Printed by B. Buisson, 1830. 407, [8], 96 pp. English text with French translation on facing pages. 12mo. (5-1/4" x 3-1/2")... More
A Treatise on the Study of Law: Containing, Directions to Students,...
Advice on Legal Study from Mansfield, Ashburton and Thurlow [Murray, William, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793)]. [Dunning, John, 1st Baron Ashburton, (1731-1783)]. [Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806)]. A Treatise on the Study of Law: Containing, Directions to Students, Written by Those Celebrated Lawyers, Orators, And Statesmen, The Lords Mansfield... More
NOMOTEXNIA, Cestascavoir, Un Description del Common Leys Dangleterre
"A Pioneer Book of the Institutes of English Law" Finch, Sir Henry [1558-1625]. NOMOTEXNIA, Cestascavoir, Un Description del Common Leys Dangleterre Solonque les Rules del Art. Parallelees Oue les prerogatives le Roy. Ouesque Auxy le Substance & Effect de les Estatutes (Disposes en Lour Proper Lieux) Per le Quels le... More
The History of the Parliament of England: Which began November the...
A Negative Appraisal of the Stuart Kings Commissioned by Parliament May, Thomas [1595-1650]. The History of the Parliament of England: Which began November the third, M.DC.XL. With a Short and Necessary View of Some Precedent Yeares. Written by Thomas May Esquire, Secretary for the Parliament. Published by Authority. London: Moses... More
A Law Dictionary; Or the Interpreter of Words and Terms Used Either...
Penultimate Edition of Cowell's Law Dictionary Cowel[l], John [1554-1611]. [Kennett, White, Editor]. A Law Dictionary: Or, the Interpreter of Words and Terms, Used Either in the Common or Statute Laws of That Part of Great Britain, Call'd England; and In Tenures and Jocular Customs. London: B. Browne, R. Sare [et... More
Firma Burgi, Or An Historical Essay Concerning the Cities Towns...
A Notable Early Study of English Municipal Government Madox, Thomas [1666-1727]. Firma Burgi, Or An Historical Essay Concerning the Cities, Towns and Buroughs of England. Taken from Records. London: Printed by William Bowyer; And Sold by Robert Gosling, 1726. [xx], 297, [31] pp. Lacking 4 pp. subscriber list. Folio (15-1/2"... More
The Sorrowful Lamentation of Chas and Matt Wedmore, Now Lying Under...
"In Taunton Goal Two Brothers Lie, Both of Them Condemned to Die" [Broadside]. [Murder]. Wedmore, Charles. Wedmore, Matthew. The Sorrowful Lamentation of Chas and Matt Wedmore, Now Lying Under Sentence of Ieath [sic] in Taunton Goal. Bristol: Printed by John Chapman, [1862]. 10" x 7" broadside. Verse text in parallel... More
The Common Law, First Edition, Boston, 1881.
First Edition of The Common Law Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1881. [i]-xvi, 422 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Original maroon pebbled cloth, blind double frames to boards, gilt title to spine, triple gilt rules at spine ends. A few minor nicks... More
Making Your Case, The Art of Persuading Judges, Signed by Scalia and..
Signed by Scalia and Garner Scalia, Antonin. Garner, Bryan A. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. St. Paul, MN: Thomson West, 2008. xxiv, 245 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Half-title signed by Garner and Scalia. A fine copy. $500. * First edition. In their professional lives courtroom lawyers... More