With a Broadside Listing the Rules and Regulations of the Rhode Island House of Representatives [Rhode Island]. Public Laws of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations Passed Since the Session of the Hon. General Assembly in January, A.D. 1798. Providence: Printed by Jones & Wheeler, 1810. 144 pp, [38]..... More

One of the Great Legal Works of the Medieval Era Placentinus, Petrus [d.1192]. Rhodius, Nikolaus [fl. 1530-1535], Editor. In Codicis Dn. Iustiniani Sacratissimi Principis ex Repetita Praelectione Libros IX. Summa a Placentino Legum Interprete Excellentissimo Ante 400. Ferme Annos Conscripta et nunc Primum in Lucem Aedita. Accessit Praeterea Index Geminus..... More

The First U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Copyright [Trial]. [Wheaton et al v. Peters et al]. Report of the Copy-Right Case of Wheaton v. Peters. Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an Appendix, Containing the Acts of Congress Relating to Copy-Right. New York: Printed by James..... More

Comprehensive (and Scarce) Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Insurance Weskett, John. A Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws, And Practice of Insurance; Compiled from the Best Authorities in Different Languages, Which are Quoted and Referred to Throughout the Work; And Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Under Many Select Heads, With Ample References, And..... More

A Fifteenth-Century Legal Reference Library Schussenried, Werner von [et al.] Modus Legendi Abbreviaturas in Utroq[ue] Iure, Sive Processus Iuris. [Strasbourg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner), 9 August 1490]. [126] ff. Text in parallel columns. Collation: a8 b6 c8 d6 e8 f-v6. Complete. [Bound with] Guido de..... More

A Jesuitical Restatement of the Institutes Gasparro, Francesco Maria [1679-1735]. Institutionum Juris Civilis. Ad Usum Seminarii Romani. Rome: Apud Cajetanum Zenobium, 1707. Four parts in two volumes. [viii], 105, [11], 160, [8]; 124, [8], 161, [7] pp. Quarto (8-3/4" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary morocco, gilt double frames to boards, inner frames..... More

Useful to the German Lawyer or Law Student Salander (Schade, Franz Henning) [1699-1732]. Der Auf Neue Manier Abgefaste und Expedite Notarius, Worinnen Der I. Theil der Notarien Geschaffte, Amts-Verrichtungen, Darauff sich das Examen Grundet, Wie auch Kaysers Maximiliani I. Constitution von Notarien de Anno 1512. Und andere Edicta &c. Der..... More

Sensational Accounts of "A Notorious Highwayman" and a "Man Eater" [Trial]. [Turpin, Richard (1706-1739)]. [Beane, Alexander "Sawney" (16th-17th c.)]. The Life and Trial of Richard Turpin, A Notorious Highwayman: Containing a Particular Account of His Adventures, From His Being First Put an Apprentice to a Butcher in Whitechapel, To His..... More

Critical Edition of the Earliest English Law Reports Brand, Paul A., Editor. The Earliest English Law Reports. London: Selden Society, 1996-2006. 4 volumes. Complete set. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettered spines, negligible light shelfwear. Owner signature to front free endpaper of Volume IV, interiors otherwise clean. $250. *..... More

An Important Compilation of Catalonian Law [Catalonia]. [Spain]. Constitutions Y Altres Drets de Cathalunya, Compilats en Virtut del Capitol de Cort LXXXII. De las Corts per las. S.C. y R. Majestat del Rey Don Philip IV. Nostre Senyor Celebradas en la Civtat de Barcelona any M.DCCII. Barcelona: En Casa de..... More

A Paraphrase of Justinian's Institutes With 16 Taxonomic Tables Fuchs, Paul von [1640-1704]. Mylius, Andreas [1649-1702], Editor. Institutionum Juris Paraphrasis Perpetua: Cum Additione Juris Novi, Imprimis Saxonici, & Tabellis ad Calcem Cujusvis Libri, In Gratiam Studiosae Juventutis. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Sumpt. Christiani Weidmanni. Literis Banckmanniansis, 1684. [22], 698 [i.e. 690]..... More

First Edition of Pufendorf's Landmark Treatise on International Law Pufendorf, Samuel [1632-1694]. De Jure Naturae et Gentium Libro Octo. Lund: Sumptibus Adami Junghans, 1672. [xx], 1227, [9] pp. Quarto (8-1/4" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. A few shallow scuffs, nicks and inkspots to boards, light..... More

First Edition of the First English Treatise on Family Law [Marriage Law]. [Great Britain]. Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives. Wherein is Contained the Nature of a Feme Covert, And of Marriages, Bastardy, The Privileges of Feme Coverts: What Alterations are Made by..... More