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Item #67112 The Practick Part of the Law: Shewing the Office of an Attorney, And. Of Staple Inn GT.
The Practick Part of the Law: Shewing the Office of an Attorney, And..

The Practick Part of the Law: Shewing the Office of an Attorney, And..

A Popular Guide to the Daily Practice of English Law [G.T., Of Staple Inn]. The Practick Part of the Law: Shewing the Office of an Attorney, And a Guide for Solicitors in the Courts of the Chancery, King's-Bench, Common-Pleas and Exchequer, With the Manner of Their Proceedings in any Action Real, Personal, Or Mixt (From the Original to the Execution) in All Courts, With the Exact Fees of All Officers and Ministers of Those Courts: To Which is Added the Practice of the Courts in the city of London, Court of Admiralty, ecclesiastical Courts, And Other Inferior Courts in the Country. Carefully Revised, Corrected, And much Enlarged, With an Exact Table, Wherein are Contained all the Principal Matters in the Whole Book. London: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1681. [viii], 592 [i.e. 590], [14] pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style. Blind rules and corner fleurons to boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, front hinge mended. Some rubbing to extremities with some wear to corners, calf just beginning to crack through pastedowns. Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampstaining to head of text block and fore-edges of some leaves. $450. * Later edition of a work first published in 1652. This early guide outlines the daily practice of the law in England. A useful and popular work, it went through several editions, the final appearing in 1724. English Short-Title Catalogue R184827.

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