An Essay on the Nature and Laws of Uses and Trusts, Including a...
A "Thorough, Comprehensive and Learned Discussion" of Uses and Trusts with an Interesting New York Provenance Sanders, Francis Williams [1769-1831]. An Essay on the Nature and Laws of Uses and Trusts. Including a Treatise on Conveyances at Common Law; And Those Deriving Their Effect from the Statute of Uses. Dublin: Printed by J. Jones, NO. III, Grafton-Street, Opposite The College, 1792. [iv], iv, [2], 440, [16] pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Modern cloth, red and black lettering pieces and gilt fillets, ornament and place and publication year to spine, endpapers renewed. Very light rubbing to extremities, cracks in text block following title page and before the final leaf, all leaves secure. Light toning to interior, light foxing in places, negligible faint dampstaining to bottom edge of text block, just touching bottom edges of a few leaves, early owner signature (Thos. Mumford) to head of title page. $650. * Dublin reissue of the first edition, London 1791. Marvin praised this treatise for its "thorough, comprehensive and learned discussion of the Law of Uses and Trusts." It was a popular and durable work that went through several English and American editions into the 1840s. Sanders was an English barrister and a member of the Royal Commission on Real Property Law. The Thomas Mumford who inscribed this copy is the notorious county sheriff and predatory land speculator Thomas Mumford (1770-1831) of Cayuga, New York. He graduated from Yale in 1790, and studied under Judge Samuel Jones (Litchfield Historical Society website). Mumford is the target of one of several case studies of late eighteenth-century corruption in Scott W. Anderson's recent book, Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation (Cornell UP, 2024). Mumford's signature is distinctively flourished, and several of his letters are held by the Rochester Institute of Technology, and are available for viewing on their website. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 628. English Short-Title Catalogue N7639.
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