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A Treatise on Judicial Evidence [with] Law Tracts. 2 works in 1.

Bentham, Jeremy; Dumont, Etienne, Editor

Includes the First English Edition of One of Bentham's Most Important Works Bentham, Jeremy [1748-1832]. Dumont, [Etienne] [1759-1829], Editor. A Treatise on Judicial Evidence, Extracted from the Manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, Esq. by M. Dumont, Member of the Representative and Sovereign Council of Geneva. London: Published by J.W. Paget, 1825. xvi, 366 pp. With half title and appendix entitled The Law of England in Regard to Investigatory Procedure. Complete. [Bound After] [The Law Journal]. A Collection of Law Tracts, Published in the Years 1825 & 1826 [and 1828 & 1829] in The Law Journal, Which is a Monthly Publication Sold to Annual Subscribers Only. London: Published by J.W. Paget, [1827], 1830. Two volumes. [iv], 328; viii, 206, [16] pp. Complete set. Quarto (9-1/4" x 7"; 23.5 x 17.8 cm). Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt fillets and lettering pieces to spine, hinges mended. Light fading to spine and upper section of front board, corners lightly bumped. Light toning to interior, light foxing in a few sections of text. A handsome volume. $1,850. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** * Treatise: first edition in English, one of two issues, both by the same printer (B. Bensley) in 1825; Collection: only edition. Edited by Dumont, Bentham's Treatise was originally published in Paris in 1823 as Traite Des Preuves Judiciaires. As Holdsworth notes, the 1825 English edition, along with Dumont's 1827 translation of Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence, "marks an epoch both in law and the literature on the subject. Mill rightly regarded Bentham's labours in this branch of the law as the most important and the most beneficent of all his undertakings. Bentham, he said, 'found the philosophy of judicial procedure ... and of evidence in a more wretched state than even any part of the philosophy of law; he carried it at once almost to perfection.'" Fascinating for its insight into the English bar of the early nineteenth century, A Collection of Law Tracts is an anthology of articles from The Law Journal. Contents include "On the Claim of Executors to the Residue of Their Testator's Personal Est.

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