The Civil and Executive Officers' Assistant Containing the Forms of...
1793 Connecticut Justice of the Peace Manual Goodrich, John [1753-1800]. The Civil and Executive Officers' Assistant. Containing the Forms of Bonds, Bills, Deeds, Letters of Attorney, Policies of Insurance, Releases, Wills, Writs, Pleas, Officers Returns and Justices Records of Court. With the Power and Duty of Justices of the Peace as contained in the laws of the State of Connecticut. And Exhibiting the Duty and Province of Select-Mfn [sic], Constables, Grand-Jurors, &c. With an Appendix Containing a Concise Mode of Casting Interest, Keeping Town Accompts, And Transacting Public Business with Facility and Accuracy. New Haven: Printed and Sold by Abel Morse, 1793. xii, 9-305 (i.e. 309) pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-1/2"; 19.7 x 11.5 cm). Contemporary sheep, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine. Rubbing to exterior, some scuffing and faint staining to boards, which are separating at foot but secured by cords, moderate wear to spine, lettering piece chipped, spine ends abraded, corners bumped, endleaves lightly edgeworn and separating at foot but secure. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, both uneven and somewhat lighter or heavier in places. Early owner signatures of Hiram Gates to front endleaves in ink, early owner inscriptions of Hiram Gates (indicating acquisition of the book in 1793) and John Elderkin (indicating acquisition of the book in 1887 from "Mrs. H. Gates") to front free endpaper. $150. * First edition. A comprehensive reference guide for professionals and lay people in Connecticut. A second edition was published in 1798. Educated at Dartmouth and Yale, Goodrich "had several different occupations, in 1784 he became a member of the County Medical Society; in 1786 and for a few years thereafter, he ran a drug store; later he kept an inn and served as a constable; and by 1793 he had become a lawyer" (Cohen). This edition not in James's Treatises Printed in the British Colonies and the United States Before 1801. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8008.
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