A Lecture on the Alleged Uncertainty of the Law, Delivered Before...
The Law is Not Uncertain Pickering, John [1777-1846]. A Lecture on the Alleged Uncertainty of the Law; Delivered Before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, March 5, 1830. Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company, 1834. 28 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning and light foxing, negligible light soiling to title page. $250. * Only edition. "Pickering practiced law in Boston, served as city solicitor there, and represented Salem in the General Court. He had scholarly interests in philology and Roman law, published a Greek-English dictionary and other works on linguistics" (Cohen). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 7828.
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