April 5, 2022
Highlights in this list include:
Beale on Foreign Corporations and the Taxation of Corporations Beale, Joseph Henry [1861-1943]. The Law of Foreign Corporations and Taxation of Corporations Both Foreign and Domestic. Boston: W.J. Nagel, 1904. xxvi, 1149 pp. Later library cloth, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine, endpapers renewed, light toning to interior. $350..... More
A Warning to Sailors [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. Caution to Seamen. At the West Ham Police Court, On the 5th of October, 1882, A Fireman was Convicted of Having Assaulted a Police Officer Attached to the Board of Trade Office, Victoria Docks, E., And was Sentenced to Imprisonment for Two Months..... More
The Macclesfield Copy, Includes a Decision Disputed by Mansfield Bunbury, William. Wilson, George, Editor. Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer, From the Beginning of the Reign of King George the First, Until the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second. By William Bunbury, Esq; Late..... More
With Commentary on an Interesting Inheritance Case Fearne, Charles [1742-1794]. [Shadwell, Thomas Mitchell, Editor]. The Posthumous Works, Consisting of a Reading On the Statute of Inrollments, Arguments in the Singular Case of General Stanwix, and a Collection of Cases and Opinions. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1797. ix, [15], 468..... More
Scarce 1823 Address on Principal and Factor Freshfield, James William [1774-1864]. Gurney, W[illiam] B[rodie], Transcriber. Law Relating to Principal and Factor. Address Delivered by Mr. Freshfield to the Select Committee of the House of Commons, To Whom the Petition of the Merchants, Bankers, And Others. London: Marchant, Printer, 1823. [iii]-xv..... More
Murder, Rape and Trial by Battle Holroyd, Edward [1794-1881]. [Thornton, Abraham (c.1793-1860)]. Observations Upon the Case of Abraham Thornton, Who was Tried at Warwick, August 8, 1817, For the Murder of Mary Ashford: Shewing the Danger of Pressing Presumptive Evidence Too Far, Together with the Only True and Authentic Account..... More
Notes (and Doodles) by a Student at Northeastern Law School [Manuscript]. Ward, John W. [Course Notes on Business Associations, Northeastern University School of Law]. January 28, 1938-June 3, 1938. 181 pp. of handwritten notes in a 300 pp. university notebook. Quarto (9-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary three-quarter maroon cloth over black..... More
A Rebuttal of the 1819 Report from the Select Committee on Criminal Laws Miller, John. An Inquiry into the Present State of the Statute and Criminal Law of England. London: John Murray, 1822. vi, [ii], 332 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Later three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, blind..... More
A "Thorough, Comprehensive and Learned Discussion" of Uses and Trusts Sanders, Francis Williams [1769-1831]. An Essay on the Nature and Laws of Uses and Trusts, Including a Treatise on Conveyances at Common Law: And Those Deriving Their Effect from the Statute of Uses. London: Printed by E. and R. Brooke..... More
First-Edition Copy of The Kinges Prerogative Staunford, Sir William [1509-1558]. An Exposicion of the Kinges Prerogative Collected Out of the Great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and Other Olde Writers of the Lawes of England. Whereunto is Annexed the Proces to the Same Prerogative Appertaining. [London: Imprinted...in Fleete-Strete Within Temple Barre...By..... More
Criminal Law in the British Navy Thring, Theodore [1816-1891]. Gifford, C[harles] E[dwin] [1843-1922]. Thring's Criminal Law of the Navy With an Introductory Chapter on the Early State and Discipline of the Navy, The Rules of Evidence, and An Appendix Comprising the Naval Discipline Act and Practical Forms. London: Stevens and..... More
"A Classic of American Criminal History": McDade 276 [Trial]. Durrant, William Henry Theodore [1871-1898], Defendant. Peixotto, Edgar D., Reporter. Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant: Indicted for the Murder of Blanche Lamont, Before the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Including a Full..... More
Perhaps the Most Notorious English Example of a Rigged Election [Trial]. Sykes, Francis [1730-1804], Defendant. The Trial of the Cause on the Action Brought by Hans Wintrop Mortimer, Esq; Member for the Borough of Shaftesbury, Against Francis Sykes, Esq; For Bribery Committed at Shaftesbury, Previous to the General Election, In..... More
Inspired by the Wilkes Cause [Webb, Philip Carteret, Compiler]. Copies Taken from the Records of the Court of King's-Bench, At Westminster; The Original Office-Books of the Secretaries of State, Remaining in the Paper, And Secretaries of State's Offices, Or from the Originals Under Seal. Of Warrants Issued by Secretaries of..... More