The Contract of Pawn as it Exists at Common Law, And as Modified...
Interesting Legal Study of Pawnbroking Turner, Francis [1829-1885]. The Contract of Pawn as it Exists at Common Law, And as Modified by the Pawnbrokers' Acts, The Factors' Acts, And Other Statutes. London: Jackson & Keeson, 1866. xvi, 352 pp. 12mo. (7" x 4"). Recent cloth, printed paper title label to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, underlining to a few passages, library stamp to title page and a few other leaves. $500. * First edition. A historically grounded work by a Middle Templar, this treatise surveys its subject from Roman law to the work of such jurists as Sir William Jones and Justice Joseph Story. A second edition was issued in 1883. Both editions of this work are scarce. OCLC locates 4 copies of the first edition in North American law libraries (UC Berkeley, U.S. Supreme Court, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:362.
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