Law Quibbles. Or, a Treatise of the Evasions, Tricks, Turns and...
A Spirited Call for Reform: A Layman's Guide to Law's "Evasions, Tricks, Turns and Quibbles" [Legal Criticism]. [Law Reform]. [Great Britain]. Law Quibbles: Or, A Treatise of the Evasions, Tricks, Turns and Quibbles, Commonly Used in the Profession of the Law, To the Prejudice of Clients, And Others; Necessary to be Perused by All Attornies, And Those Who Are or May be Concerned in Law Suits, Trials, &c. To Avoid the Many Abuses, Delays and Expences Introduc'd into Practice. With Abstracts of All the Late Statutes for Amending the Law, Relating to Attornies, Arrest and Bail, Bribery, Forgery and Perjury, Juries, Justices of Peace, Prisoners in Execution, Law Process, Rents of Tenants, &c. Under the Proper Heads. And an Essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Laws of England, And a New Proposed Act of Parliament, For a Thorough Regulation of the Practice of the Law. Corrected and much Enlarged. To Which is Now Added a Second part, Containing Every Curious Precedents of Conveyances in Extraordinary Cases; Likewise Proceedings and Precedents in Chancery, And at Common Law in English; With Law-Notes Thereon. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1736. [viii], 72, 132, 135, [13] pp. With an index and advertisement leaf. Collated and complete. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-1/2"; 19.6 x 11.8 cm). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Moderate rubbing to boards, light wear to extremities, joints starting at head, chip to center of lettering piece, spine ends lightly abraded, small vertical surface crack to spine, hinges cracked. Light toning to interior, crack in text block between pp. 78 & 79, all leaves secure, occasional small faint dampstains at page edges. Early owner signature (of Thomas Winter, dated 1781) to front pastedown. A good, sound copy of a scarce and engaging title. $750. * Fourth and final edition, significantly expanded. First published in 1724, Law Quibbles is a lively and sharply critical guide to the procedural artifices and technical maneuvers of the English legal profession. Designed for the lay reader as much as the practitioner, it functions both as a satirical expose and as a practical survival manual for navigating 18th-century litigation. The first part presents an alphabetical "dic.
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