A Thorough Elucidation of the Whole Doctrine of Descents, by Means...
Swinburne, Thomas. A Thorough Elucidation of the Whole Doctrine of Descents, by Means of a Restoration and Reassertion of Such of the Common Law's Own Long-Lost Original Principles as Relate to Real Property. London: J. and W.T. Clarke, 1825. xxxv, 166 pp. With two tables, one folding. Contemporary quarter cloth over plain boards, rebacked retaining existing backstrip with gilt title, endpapers renewed, edges untrimmed. Light rubbing, moderate shelfwear, occasional light foxing and soiling, brief early manuscript corrections to a few leaves. Ex-library with institutional name and seal to boards and circular ink library stamps to a few pages. $350. * Only edition. A scarce treatise on descents building off of the work of Hale and Blackstone. OCLC locates 3 copies in North America (UC-Berkeley, State Library of Iowa, Supreme Court of Illinois). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:350.
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