The Reports of Sr Creswell Levinz, Knt Late One of the Judges in the..
Considered an Authority by James Kent Levinz, Sir Creswell [1627-1700]. Les Reports de Sr. Creswell Levinz, Knt. Jades un del Justices del Common Bank, En Trois Parts: Commencant en le 12 an de Roy Charles II. & Fini en le 8 an de son Majesty William III. Le Primer Part Containant Cases Oye & Determin en Bank le Roy en le Temps que Sir Robert Foster, Sir Robert Hide, & Sir John Keeling fueront Chief Justices la, & d'Ascun Cases en Auter Courts Durant cest Temps. Le Second Part Containant Cases Oye & Determin en Bank le Roy Durant le Temps que Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Richard Rainsford, & Sir William Scroggs fueront Chief Justices la, & d'Ascun Cases en Auter Courts Durant cest Temps. Le Tierce Part, De Divers Cases en Common Bank Durant le Temps que il fuit un Judge la, & de Divers Auters Cases en Mesme le Court, & Ascun Auters Courts, Puis que il fuit Remove del Bank al' 9 Ann William le Tierce, Ovesque Special Pleadings al Several del Cases. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esq; for S. Kevel [et al.], 1702. Three parts in three volumes. Copperplate portrait frontispiece facing title page of Part I. [xii], 312, [16]; [vi], 255, [24]; [xxii], 440, [12] pp. Folio (12" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets and rules to boards, raised bands, blind fillets, lettering pieces and small early paper shelf labels to spines, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few nicks, scuffs and scratches to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, front joint of Volume III starting at head, corners bumped and somewhat worn, hinges cracked or starting, armorial bookplates of the Earls of Macclesfield to front pastedowns, penciled shelfmarks to front free endpapers, brief ink annotations to rear pastedowns, small embossed Macclesfield stamps to preliminaries, armorial bookplates of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield to versos of title pages. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in places, very brief annotations and underlining to a few leaves. $500. * First edition. First published in 1702, these volumes report cases from 1660 to 1697. Wallace says these reports are held in varying degrees of respect by different jurists, but are frequently cited. Kent had a high opinion of these reports and considered than an "authority." The final edition of these reports, the third, was pu.
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