Contemporary Legal Commentary on a Witchcraft Trial in Marburg [Reinkingk, Theodor von]. Responsum Juris, In Ardua Et Gravi Quadam Causa, Concernente Processum Quendam, Contra Sagam, Nulliter Institutum, & Inde Exortam Diffamationem. Ubi Quaestiones Quaedam, De Nocturnis Sagarum Conventiculis, Saltationibus, Usurpatione Supellectilium Piorum in Illis, Transmutationibus Personarum in Alia Animalia, Confessionibus... More about Responsum Juris, In Ardua Et Gravi Quadam Causa, Concernente

The Constitutional Danger Posed by a "New Lurking Pretender" [Ridpath, George (d.1726)]. Parliamentary Right Maintain'd or the Hanover Succession Justify'd. Wherein The Hereditary Right to the Crown of England Asserted &c. Is Consider'd, in III. Parts. The Ist. Examins the Plea from Scripture. The II. That from the Laws &..... More about Parliamentary Right Maintain'd or the Hanover Succession Justify'd

A Collection of English Satirical Pamphlets, Many Rare, in a Contemporary Binding [Satire]. [Great Britain]. [Bound Collection of Satirical Pamphlets on Legal and Political Topics]. London, 1684-1712. 20 pamphlets (and 3 defective pamphlets). Octavo (6" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary paneled calf, raised bands and early hand-lettered title label (reading "Tracts") to... More about Bound Collection of Satirical Pamphlets on Legal and Political Topics

First Edition of Spencer's Pioneering Work of Comparative Religion and Law Spencer, John [1630-1693]. De Legibus Hebraeorum Ritualibus Et Earum Rationibus, Libri Tres. Primo, Fuse Agitur de Rationibus Legum Judaicarum Generalibus. Huic Ad Calcem Additur Dissertatio Breviuscula de Theocratia Judaica. Secundo, De Legibus Mosaicis Quibus Zabiorum Ritus Occasionem Dedere Fuse... More about De Legibus Hebraeorum Ritualibus Et Earum Rationibus, Libri Tres

First Edition of the First Standard Treatise on Wills Swinburne, Henry [1560?-1623]. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes, Very Profitable to be Understoode of All the Subjects of This Realme of England, (Desirous to Know, Whether, Whereof, And How, They May Make Their Testaments: And by What Meanes... More about A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes, Very Profitable

The Godefroy Edition of the Theodosian Code Theodosius II [408-450 CE], Emperor of the East. Godefroy, Jacques [1587-1652], Editor. Antoine Marville [1609-1663], Editor. Codex Theodosianus: Cum Perpetuis Commentariis Iacobi Gothofredi. Praemittuntur Chronologia Accuratior, Cum Chronico Historico, & Prolegomena: Subijciuntur Notitia Dignitatum, Prosopographia, Topographia, Index Rerum, & Glossarium Nomicum. Opus Posthumum;... More about Codex Theodosianus, Cum Perpetuis Commentariis Iacobi Gothofredi

Fletcher Webster's Copy of an Account of One of His Father's Famous Cases [Trial]. Jackman, Joseph. Goodridge, Elijah Putnam [1787-1851], Defendant. The Sham-Robbery, Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge on His Own Person, In Newbury Near Essex Bridge, Dec. 19, 1816: With a History of His Journey to the Place Where... More about The Sham-Robbery, Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge on His Own

A Virginian Peer to Kent and Story Tucker, Henry St. George [1780-1848]. Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia, Comprising the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered to the Winchester Law School. Winchester: Printed at the Office of the Republican for the Author, 1836-1837. 2 volumes. xx, 9, 165, 458... More about Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia, Comprising the Substance of

A Notably Handsome Copy of Whishaw's Dictionary Whishaw, James [1808-1879]. A New Law Dictionary: Containing a Concise Exposition of the Mere Terms of Art, and Such Obsolete Words as Occur in Old Legal, Historical and Antiquarian Writers. London: J. & W.T. Clarke, 1829. [iii]-viii, 342 pp. Half-title lacking. Main text... More about A New Law Dictionary: Containing a Concise Exposition... London, 1829

"The Complement of Sir W. Blackstone's Commentaries" Wooddeson, Richard [1745-1822]. Elements of Jurisprudence, Treated of in the Preliminary Part of a Course of Lectures on the Laws of England. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1783. [iv], 118 pp. Quarto (10-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style... More about Elements of Jurisprudence, Treated of in the Preliminary Part of a