Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law Taken by Those Late and Most...
Reports of Brownlow and Goldesborough, 1569-1625 Brownlow, Richard [1553-1638]. Goldesborough, John [1568-1618]. Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law Taken by Those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow, And John Goldesborough, Esquires. The First Part. With Directions How to Proceed in Many Intricate Actions, Both Real and Personal, Shewing the Nature of Those Actions, And the Practice in Them; Excellently Useful for the Avoiding of Many Errors, Heretofore Committed in the Like Proceedings; Fit for All Lawyers, Attorneys and Practisers of the Law. Also a Most Perfect and Exact Table, Shewing Appositely the Contents of the Whole Book. The Third Edition Carefully Corrected and Amended. London: Printed for Henry Twyford, 1675. [vi], 241, [15]; [4], 341, [11] pp. Two parts. Part II has separate title page reading (in part): Reports of Divers Famous Cases in Law as They were Argued, As Well upon the Bench, By the Reverend and Learned Judges Coke, Flemming, Hobard, Haughton, Warburton, Winch, Nichols, Foster, Walmesly, Yelverton, Montague, Doderidge, And Diverse Others, In Their Respective Places; As Also at the Barr, By the Then Judicious Serjeants and Barristers of Special Note. Collected by Richard Brownlow Esq. (...) The Second Edition Carefully Corrected and Amended and the imprint: London: Printed for Henry Twyford, 1675. Portrait frontispiece lacking. With a half-title reading: The Reports of Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough. Quarto (8-1/5" x 6-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over speckled boards, gilt-edged raised bands and retained early lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Chipping to edges of lettering piece, moderate toning to text, light foxing in a few places, minor early inkstains to a few leaves. $350. * Final edition, both parts also issued separately. First issued in 1651 and 1652, these volumes report cases from 1569 to 1625."[T]hough not exclusively so confined, [these reports] are chiefly composed of such practice cases as were constantly arising in the old law": Wallace, The Reporters 159. English Short-Title Catalogue R16999.
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