Handwriting Evidence is Not Enough to Convict Le Vayer de Boutigny, Roland [1627-1685]. A Dissertation Shewing the Invalidity of All Proof by Similitude of Hands, In Criminal Cases. The Whole Collected from the Civil Law and Other Distinguished Authorities, Founded on the Principles of Reason and Equity, And Digested with..... More

"I Never Should Have Done it But for Brandy" [Temperance]. Crockett, Simeon L. [1809-1836]. A Voice from the Leverett Street Prison, Or the Life, Trial, And Confession of Simeon L. Crockett, Who was Executed for Arson, March 16, 1836. Boston: Printed for the Proprietors, [c.1836]. 24 pp. Woodcut illustrations. Octavo..... More

Cruelty Against a Woman, Or a Political Hatchet Job? Marie, Jane. The Case of Jane Marie, Exhibiting the Cruelty and Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, To a Defenceless Woman. Written and Published by the Object of His Cruelty and Vengeance, And Addressed to the Public of Philadelphia and the Whole..... More

With a Warm Inscription from the Author Archer, Gleason L. [1880-1966]. History of the Law. Boston: Suffolk Law School Press, 1928. 442 pp. Original textured cloth, gilt fillets and title to spine. Light rubbing and shelfwear, faint dampstaining to front board, moderate toning to interior, small tears to bottom-edges of..... More

A Colorful Baron on Trial for Rape [Trial]. Calvert, Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore [1731-1771], Defendant. The Trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq; Baron of Baltimore in the Kingdom of Ireland, For a Rape on the Body of Sarah Woodcock; And of Eliz. Griffinburg, And Ann Harvey, Otherwise Darby, As Accessaries Before..... More

A Landmark Ruling in Support of Tribal Sovereignty [Supreme Court, United States]. [Worcester v. Georgia]. Marshall, John [1755-1835]. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, At January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, Together with the Opinion of Mr. Justice McLean, In the Case of Samuel..... More

"The Protestant Joiner" [Execution]. [Great Britain]. College (Colledge), Stephen [c.1635-1681]. A True Copy of the Dying Words of Mr. Stephen Colledge, Left in Writing Under His Own Hand, And Confirmed by Him at the Time of Execution, August 31. 1681. At Oxford. Published by His Own Relations. London: Printed for..... More

Defended By a Distinguished Anglo-Irish Barrister [Trial]. Blake, Martin Joseph, Defendant. Crim. Con. A Full, Faithful, & Impartial Report of that Curious, Extraordinary and Interesting Trial with Speeches of Counsel and Judge's Charge, In the Case Wherein Mark Browne, Esq., Was Plaintiff and Martin Jos. Blake, Esq., Defendant, In an..... More

Daniel Webster for the Defense [Trials]. Jackman, Joseph. Goodridge, Elijah Putnam [1787-1851], Defendant. The Sham-Robbery, Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge on His Own Person, In Newbury Near Essex Bridge, Dec. 19, 1816: With a History of His Journey to the Place Where he Robbed Himself: and His Trial with Mr..... More

Trials and Sentences at the Old Bailey, November 1827 [Broadside]. [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. Trials, And Sentences of the Prisoners at the Old Bailey. Including thr Trial of James Tyler and Mary Deacon for Starving Their Child at Brighton Street Somer's Town. [London]: Pitts Printer, 6 Great St., Andrew St. 7..... More

"One of Those Legal Marathons Peculiar to the United States": McDade 576 [Trial]. Kring, Charles F., Defendant. [Kring, Eugene]. Love and Law, In Two Parts. Part I. The Only True History of the Killing of Mrs. Dora C.J. Broemser, by Chas. F. Kring: Together with the Autobiography of the Latter..... More

First Edition of an Early Abridgment of Blackstone Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Curry, William, Editor. The Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knt. on the Laws and Constitution of England; Carefully Abridged, In a New Manner, And Continued Down to the Present Time: With Notes, Corrective and Explanatory. London: Printed for..... More

Jackson, Bernard S. Theft in Early Jewish Law. Oxford; At the Clarendon Press, 1972. xviii, 316 pp. Publisher's blue gilt stamped cloth hardcover, very good, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $45. * Traces the history of the principal rules of the Jewish law of theft..... More