Guidance for Young Clerks [Practitioner in the Law]. The Young Clerk's Magazine: Or, English Law-Repository: Containing a Variety of the Most Useful Precedents of Articles of Agreement, Bonds, Bills, Recognizances, Releases, Letters and Warrants of Attorney, Awards, Bills of Sale, Gifts, Grants, Leases, Assignments, Mortgages, Surrenders, Jointures, Covenants, Copartnerships, Charterparties..... More
A Copyright Case Concerning Navigational Charts [Trial]. Moore, John Hamilton [1738-1807], Defendant. Trial of John Hamilton Moore for Pirating a Chart. Sittings After Term, March 1798, Before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury of Merchants. Guildhall, London. Heather and Williams, v. John Hamilton Moore [Drop-Head Title]. [London]: Plummer, Printer, [1798]..... More
A Pioneering Treatise on Private Bills Ellis, Charles Thomas. Practical Remarks and Precedents of Proceedings in Parliament: Comprising the Standing Orders of Both Houses, To the End of the Year 1801; Relative to the Applying for, And Passing, Bills for Inclosing or Draining Lands; Making Turnpike Roads, Navigations, Aqueducts; Building..... More
First Edition of King James's "Book of Bounty," A Landmark in the History of Patent Law [Great Britain]. James I [1566-1625], King of England and Ireland. A Declaration of His Maiesties Royall Pleasure, In What Sort He Thinketh Fit to Enlarge, Or Reserve Himselfe in Matter of Bountie. London: Imprinted..... More
1599 Edition of Fortescue's De Laudibus Fortescue, Sir John [1394?-1476?]. Mulcaster, Robert [16th. c.], Translator. A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of England: Wherein, By Moste Pitthy Reasons and Evident Demonstrations, They are Plainely Proved Farre to Excell, As well the Civil Lawes of the Empire, As Also All..... More
"A Spirit of Disaffection and A Contempt for the Authority of the Law" Evans, W[illiam] D[avid] [1767-1821]. A Charge to the Grand Jury, At the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, Held by Adjournment at Preston, On the 16th Day of January, 1817. Manchester: Printed by..... More
"For the Clearing of All Such Titles, And Questions" Powell, Thomas [1572?-1635?]. Direction for Search of Records Remaining in the Chancerie. Tower. Exchequer, With the Limnes thereof: Viz. The Kings Remembrancer. Lord Treasurers Remembrancer. Clarke of the Extreats. Pipe. Auditors. The First Fruits. Augmentation of the Revenue. Kings Bench. Common..... More
Bridges a "Chasm" in the Year Books Bellew(e), Richard, Compiler. Les Ans du Roy Richard le Second Collect' Ensemble' Hors de les Abridgments de Statham, Fitzherbert et Brooke. London: Imprinted by Robert Robertson, Dwelling in Fewter Lane Neere Holborne, 1585. [viii], [6], 145, 144-270, 255-326 [i.e. 342], [8] pp. Pagination..... More
A Scarce 1657 Treatise on County Courts Greenwood, W[illiam]. Curia Comitatus Rediviva. Or, The Pratique Part of the County-Court Revived, Fully Demonstrating Its Antiquity and Proceedings From the Originall to Execution, And All Manner of Actions Lying in It. Also an Easie and Plaine Method for the Keeping of the..... More
Rare Edition of a Popular Guide to Landlord and Tenant Sutton, Robert. A Complete Guide to Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers, Being a Methodical Arrangement of the Whole Law as it Now Stands, Respecting the Taking or Letting Lands, Houses, Or Apartments, Giving Warning, Or Notices to Quit; Ejecting, Seizing for..... More
A Significant Early Treatise on Welsh Law Vaughan, Rice. Practica Walliae; Or the Proceedings in the Great Sessions of Wales: Containing the Method and Practice of an Attorney There, From an Original to the Execution. Whereunto is Added, The Old Statute of Wales at Large; And an Abridgement of All..... More
A Check on the Authority of Parish Officers Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn. The Modern Parish Officer; Or the Parish Officer's Complete Duty. Brought Down to the Present Period. Containing all the Statute-Laws Now in Force, Together With the Adjudged Cases Relating to Every Kind of Parish Business, Placed in Alphabetical..... More
Shumaker, Walter A., and George Foster Longsdorf, Compilers. The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary Comprising the Terms and Phrases of American Jurisprudence, Including Ancient and Modern Common Law, International Law, and Numerous Select Titles from the Civil Law, the French and the Spanish Law, Etc., Etc. with an Exhaustive Collection of Legal..... More
"Pioneering" Legal Encyclopedia Mack, W.; H.P. Nash et al., Editors. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure. Edited by William Mack et al. New York: American Law Book Co., 1901-1912. 40 volumes [with] 1915 Cyc Annotations, 1453 pp. Together 41 books. Original tan buckram, volumes 1-26 dark brown, volumes light tan buckram..... 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
Black, Henry Campbell [1860-1927]. Black's Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern and Including the Principal Terms of International, Constitutional, Ecclesiastical and Commercial Law, and Medical Jurisprudence, with a Collection of Legal Maxims, Numerous Select Titles from the Roman, Modern..... More
Fairman, Charles. History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Volume VI, Part One: Reconstruction and Reunion 1864-88. New York: The Macmillan Company, [1974]. xix, 1540 pp. Illustrated. Gilt stamped cloth, top edge gilt, moderate shelfwear, internally clean. $50. * First edition, second printing. A Volume in the Oliver..... More
Goebel, Julius. History of the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume I: Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801. New York: The Macmillan Company, [1974]. xxv, 864 pp. Plates. Original cloth, top edge gilt. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, internally clean. $45. * First edition, second printing. A volume from the authoritative..... More
Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. The Miscellaneous Writings, Literary, Critical, Juridical, And Political, Of Joseph Story, LL.D., Now First Collected. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1835. viii, 527, [1] pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Original paneled cloth, gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners..... More
Spooner, Lysander [1808-1887]. The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: in Six Volumes. Biography and introductions by Charles Shively. Weston, Mass.: M & S Press, 1971. 6 volumes. Publisher's green cloth hardcover with stamped spine. As new, fine condition. $250. * This set contains thirty-four uncommon and provocative works spanning the..... More
Cromwell's Financial Demands on the Clergy Sheppard, William [d.1675?]. The Parsons Guide: Or the Law of Tythes. Wherein is Shewed, Who Must Pay Tythes, And to Whom, And of What Things, When, And How They Must be Paid, And How they May be Recovered at this Day, And How a...... More
An Updated Edition of Dugdale's Origines Juridicialia Cooke, Edward, Compiler. [Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686)]. Chronica Juridicialia: Or, A General Calendar of the Years of Our Lord God, And Those of the Several Kings of England, From the First Year of William the Conqueror, Successively Down to this First Year of..... 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
One of the Leading Habeas Corpus Cases [Habeas Corpus]. [Darnell's Case]. The Arguments Upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus, In the Court of Kings Bench Wherein, Are Learnedly Discussed, Not Onely the Severall Branches of the Said Writ, But Also Many Authorities As Well of the Common as Statute Law..... More
A Complete Run of 20 Year Books of Edward IV, 1461-1483 [Year Books]. Edward IV [1442-1483], King of England. De Termino Michaelis Anno Primo Eduardi Quarti. [London: Imprinted...In Fleetstrete within Temple Barre at the signe of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottill, Anno. 1556 [i.e. 1571?]]. x ff. [Bound..... More