March 14, 2023
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Notable Early Digest of Coke's Reports Ashe, Thomas [fl. 1699-1618]. [Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)]. Un General Table, A Touts les Several Livres de les Reports de le Darreine Tresreverend Iudge, Sir Edward Coke Chevalier, Iadis Chiefe Iustice de Banke le Roy, Per Quelle, Touts les Cases & Matters in Yceux..... More
Scarce Treatise on Notarial Instruments, Oaths and Compromise Bertazzoli, Bartolommeo [1520-1588]. Tractatus Clausularum Instrumentalium, In Quo, Praeter ea Quae ad Litium Integram Discussionem, & Causidicorum Faciliorem Pariter Instructionem Necessario Requiri Videntur, Accurate Omnia Etiam Difficilium Quasi Legum Aenigmata Passim Enodata Reperiuntur. Opus Profecto Cunctis Iurium Alumnis ut Utile, Sic &..... More
A Primary Source for Later Manuals Blackerby, Samuel [d.1714]. Blackerby, Nathaniel. The Justice of Peace His Companion, Or a Summary of All the Acts of Parliament, Whereby One, Two, Or More Justices of the Peace, Are Authorized to Act, Not Only in, but Out of the Sessions of Peace. Alphabetically..... More
A First Edition of Blackstone's Law Tracts in an Exceptional Binding Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Law Tracts, In Two Volumes. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1762. Two volumes. [iv], 257, [7]; [iv], cxv, [5], 135, [9] pp. 4 parts, each with divisional title page. 8 copperplate facsimiles (of royal seals)..... More
Only Known Copy [Broadside]. [Execution]. Rush, James Bloomfield [1800-1849]. The Awful Execution and Confession of James Bloomfield Rush, Who was Executed on Saturday Morning at Norwich. Exeter: W. Cooper, Printer, [1849]. 19-1/2" x 14-3/4" broadside, text in three columns below headline and woodcut vignette. Moderate toning, faint horizontal and vertical..... More
Scarce Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Executions C[arter], S[amuel]. The Law of Executions: Or, A Treatise Shewing and Explaining the Nature of Executions in Several Rules, And Who May Sue Execution or Not, And Against What Persons. By and Out of what Court Execution to be Awarded. The Several Sorts of Execution..... More
Charles II and the Earl of Clarendon Address the Cavalier Parliament Charles II [1630-1685], King of England. Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon. His Majesties Most Gracious Speech, Together with the Lord Chancellors, To the Two Houses of Parliament, At their Prorogation, On Monday the Nineteenth of May, 1662. London..... More
Distinctions Between Civil and Criminal Matters in Canon Law Chiericato, Giovanni Maria [1633-1717]. Discordiae Forenses Civiles et Criminales in Duos Tomos Distributae. Venice: Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1766. Two volumes. xxiv, 487; xx, 349 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (15-1/4" x 9-1/4"). Contemporary flexible vellum, thong ties, early hand-lettered..... More
"A New Book of Instruments" [Forms]. [Great Britain]. The Lawyers Library. A New Book of Instruments: Consisting of Precedents Fitted for the Use of Attorneys, Ecclesiastical-Persons, Scriveners, Merchants, Sollicitors, Owners of Ships, Mariners; And Generally for All Persons Concerned in Trade and Commerce. Being the Most Compleat Collection of Its..... More
A Chastity Belt and a Breach of Promise Freydier, M[onsier]. [Brunet, Gustave (1807-1896)]. Plaidoyer de Mr. Freydier, Avocat a Nismes, Contre l'Introduction de Cadenas, Ou Ceintures de Chastete. Reimpression Textuelle Faite sur l'Edition Originale de 1750 et Augmentee d'un Avant-Propos, Par Philomneste, Junior. Avec des Explications Nouvelles Edifantes et Curieuses..... More
The "Attorney's Useful Companion" Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn. The Pocket Conveyancer; Or Attorney's Useful Companion: Containing Variety of the Most Approved Precedents, Both Special and Common; Particularly Calculated for the Use of Attornies and Their Clerks, And All Gentlemen of the Law. Also Very Necessary for Gentlemen, Landlords, Tenants, Stewards..... More
Star Chamber Regulates Bakers and Tavern Owners [Great Britain]. Charles I [1600-1649], King of England. A Decree Lately Made in the High Court of Starre-Chamber, After Consultation Had Among the Iudges, And Certificate of their Opinions in Divers Things, &c. And Also a Confirmation of that Decree by His Sacred..... More
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Edward VI's Protestant Reforms [Great Britain]. Edward VI [1537-1553], King of England. A Table to All the Statutes Made in the Tyme of the Most Victorious Reigne of Kynge Edward the Sixte. London: In aedibus Thomae Bertheleti aeno verbi incarnati, 1553. [8] pp. [Bound with] Edward VI, King of England..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1695-1696 [Great Britain]. William III [1650-1702], King of England. Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Septimo. At the Parliament Begun at Westminster the Two and Twentieth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1695. In the Seventh Year of the Reign of..... More
Murdered with Poisoned Sleeping Pills: McDade 444 Harris, Carlyle [1869-1893]. [Harris, Francis McCreedy], Editor. Articles, Speeches and Poems of Carlyle W. Harris. Edited by "Carl's Mother" (Hope Ledyard). New York: J.S. Ogilvie, [1893]. 205 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Original cloth, blind fillets to front board, gilt title..... More
An Infamous Earl Gets Away with Murder Herbert, Philip, 7th Earl of Pembroke [1653-1683], Defendant. The Tryal of Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Before the Peers in Westminster-Hall, On Thursday the 4th. Of April 1678. [London: s.n.], Printed in the Year 1679. [2], 28 pp. Folio (12" x 7-3/4")..... More
Regulation in Response to the "Turnpike Boom" [Highways]. [Great Britain]. George III [1738-1820], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Septimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, The Nineteenth Day of May, Anno Domini 1761, In the First Year of the..... More
An Important Contribution to the Development of Modern Legal Theory Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Le Court Leete et Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de Graies Inne un Apprentice in Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Necessaries pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts Ascier, & Pur les Students de les Measons del..... More
With Interesting Content on Land Valuation [Land Law]. [Great Britain]. [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744), Attributed]. The Land-Purchaser's Companion: And the Laws Relating to Tenants and Tenures. Containing I. The Years Purchase All Sorts of Lands, Tenements, Rents, Reversions, &c. Are Worth Valuation of Wood, Timber, Tithes, Annuities, &c. With Contracts for..... More
A Defense of the Declaration of Indulgence by a Roman Catholic Martyr Langhorne, Richard [1624?-1679]. Considerations Touching the Great Question of the King's Right in Dispensing with the Penal Laws. Written on the Occasion of His Late Blessed Majesties Granting Free Toleration and Indulgence. London: Printed by H.H. for the..... More
Nineteenth-Century Ledger from Rural New Hampshire [Manuscript]. [New Hampshire]. [Docket Book]. Grafton County, New Hampshire, 1839-1877. [360] pp. Folio (13-1/2" x 8"). Contemporary three-quarter sheep over marbled boards, gilt fillets and title to spine. Moderate rubbing, a few scuffs and stains and faint dampstaining to boards, which are slightly bowed..... More
Includes a Wealth of Detail About the Interior of One of New York City's Grandest Apartment Buildings [Manuscript]. [Trial]. [Francis Brothers & Jellett v. Tiffany]. Supreme Court, New York Co. Francis Brothers & Jellett Against Tiffany Studios, Impleaded With the Onward Constuction Company, And Others Before Hamilton Odell, Esq., Referee..... More
Cardinal Newman's Sharp Defense of his Conversion to Catholicism Newman, John Henry [1801-1890]. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "What, Then, Does Mr. Newman Mean?" London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. iv, 430, 127 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary patterned cloth, rebacked..... More
1583 Edition of Rastell's Statutes Rastell, William [1508-1565], Compiler. A Collection in English, Of the Statutes Now in Force, Continued from the Beginning of Magna Charta, Made in the 9. Yeere of the Reigne of King H.3. Untill the Ende of the Parliament Holden in the 23. Yeere of the..... More
An Interesting Form of Partible Inheritance Robinson, Thomas [d. 1747]. The Common Law of Kent: Or, The Customs of Gavelkind. With an Appendix Concerning Borough-English. [London]: Printed by R. And B. Nutt, And F. Gosling, 1741. xxiii, [1], 300, [16] pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind and (later)..... More
An Important Seventeenth-Century Statement About the Rights of Corporations [Sawyer, Sir Robert (1633-1692)]. The Pleadings, Arguments, And Other Proceedings in the Court Of Kings-Bench Upon the Quo Warranto, Touching The Charter Of The City Of London; With the Judgement Entred Thereupon. The Whole Pleadings Faithfully Taken from the Record. London..... More
A Powerful Defense of Habeas Corpus [Trial]. Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of [1621-1683], Defendant. The Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury; As it was Argued before His Majesties Justices of the Kings Bench, Trin. Term. 29. Car. 2. Being Upon His Confinement in the Tower &c. With a Speech..... More