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Item #74264 The Law of Corporations, Containing the Laws and Customs of All the. Corporations, Great Britain.
The Law of Corporations, Containing the Laws and Customs of All the...

The Law of Corporations, Containing the Laws and Customs of All the...

The First Extensive Study of the Subject [Corporations]. [Great Britain]. The Law of Corporations: Containing the Laws and Customs of All the Corporations and Inferior Courts of Record in England. Treating of the Essentials of, And Incidents to, A Corporation. Of Mayors, Bailiffs, Serjeants, &c. And Their Executing Process. Conusance of Pleas. Actions Brought in Inferior Courts, Declarations Pleadings, Venue, &c. Habeas Corpus, Procedendo, Bail, Errors in the Stile, Declarations, Pleadings, Venire's &c. Actions Brought by and Against Corporations. Of Grants by Or to a Corporation and of Misnomer in Both. By-Laws Customs, Disfranchisements and Causes of Disfranchisements. Quo Warranto's, Mandamus's and Their Returns. Dissolution of Corporations. With the Explication of Several Acts of Parliament Relating to the Same. Together With the Stiles and Titles of Most Corporations in England. Necessary to be Known Not Only by the Stewards, Attorneys, And Other Members of the Body Politick, But by All the Professors of the Common Law. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1702. [xxxii], 365, [3] pp. With a half-title and a three-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, gilt fillets and retained contemporary lettering piece to spine, hinges mended. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and lightly worn, early armorial bookplate (of James Stovin) to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to a few leaves. An attractive copy. $1,250. * Only edition. Preceded only by William Sheppard's Of Corporations, Fraternities and Guilds (1659), a brief duodecimo volume, this 1702 work was the only treatise in English published before Stewart Kyd's Treatise on Law of Corporations (1793-1794), which is often cited as the first work on the subject. (Kyd does not seem to have been aware of these earlier books.) The anonymous author mentions Sheppard's book but dismisses it, claiming that it "extends not to the fortieth part of the matters relating to Corporations (v). He is correct; his book is much more extensive than Sheppard's and is more an analytical treatise than a handbook. This was clearly the author's ambition: "I have not only sh.

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