An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory...
Kent Admired Its "Ability and Perspicuity" Fearne, Charles [1742-1794]. Powell, John Joseph [1755?-1801], Editor [Vol. II Only]. An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises. Vol. I. Of Contingent Remainders, With Tables and Index. [...] Vol. II. Of Executory Devises. Dublin: By H. Watts, Law Bookseller, 1794; Printed by John Exshaw and John Rice, 1796. 2 volumes. 15, [1], 572, x, 31, [1]; 15, [1], 556 pp. Paging irregular; star-paged to the 1795 London edition. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, lettering pieces, blind fillets and blind volume numbers to spines, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and some scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, faint ink stamp ("Settle") to spines, chipping to spine heads, nick to spine of Vol. II, corners bumped, hinges cracked, early ownership signatures and printed labels (of Thomas Settle) to pastedowns. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, light soiling and spark burns to a few leaves, clean tears to top-edges of leaves H2-3 (*177-*184) of Vol. I. $750. * Dublin reprint of the fifth and final London edition, to which it is star-paged. According to Kent, "Fearne's Essay on Contingent Reminders...is a performance of a very superior character. It is eminently distinguished for the ability and perspicuity with which it unfolds and explains the principles of the most intricate parts of the law." Fearne died before the completion of the second volume, which was published posthumously with notes by John Joseph Powell. The ESTC treats these volumes as bibliographically distinct. Kent, Commentaries on American Law I:514. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) N64699, N64701.
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