The practising attorney, or, Lawyer's office : comprehending the business of an attorney in all its branches, divided into two volumes, viz. ... Wherein all the precedents and forms of processes and proceedings are truly and faithfully rendred in the English language, in pursuance of the late statute
The fourth edition in which the errors in former impressions are carefully corrected,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion, T. Longman, at the Ship, both in Pater-Noster-Row, T. Worrall, at the Judge's Head, and F. Cogan, at the Middle-Temple Gate, both in Fleet-Street, Ward and Chandler, at the Ship, just without Temple-Bar, and at their shops in York and Scarborough,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description
2 v. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Booksellers' advertisements on first leaf of both volumes.
LC copy imperfect: worm damage on first ten leaves of vol. 1, some loss of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 458 as assinged by Yeates.
Label of bookseller David Hall,Philadelphia affixed to back of front cover.
Library has vol. 1.
ESTC
Contents
(From t. p.) Vol. I contains: I. The practice of the Court of King's Bench -- II. The practice of the Court of Common Pleas -- III. The practice of Courts-Leet, Courts-Baron, &c. -- Vol. II. contains: IV. The practice of the High Court of Chancery -- V. The practice of equity in the exchequer -- VI. The practice and method of conveyancing, &c.
A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads
Institutio legalis, or, An introduction to the study and practice of the laws of England, as now regulated and amended by several late statutes : divided into four parts, viz. ... with useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, B. Motte, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, T. Woodward at the Half-Moon, and B. Lintot at the Cross Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street,
Date of Publication
1732.
Physical Description
viii, 610, [14] p. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: Aâ´ B-2Râ¸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 913 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson,
Contents
(From t. p.) I. The practice of the Court of King's Bench -- II. The practice of the Court of Common Pleas -- III. The nature of all actions usually brought in either of the said courts -- IV. The order and method of pleading.
A new institute of the imperial or civil law With notes, shewing in some principal cases amongst other observation, how the canon law, the laws of England, and the laws and customs of other nations differ from it. In four books
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and Exchequer Chamber, and in the House of Lords: from Easter term 36 Geo. III. 1796, to [Hilary term 44 Geo. III. 1804] ... both inclusive. With tables of the cases and principal matters
Vol 1 has imprint: Dublin, Printed by J. Moore, No. 45 College-Green, 1800.
Vol. 3 has imprint: Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, no. 182, Market Street. 1805.
"The cases ... begin with 1797; but at the end of vol. 1 there are cases in 1796, from notes taken by Mr. A. Moore. In the folio edition (1800) these seem to have been sometimes bound separately, and to have been cited as A. Moore's reports."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 987, 988, and 989 as assigned by Yeates.
Laws relating to the poor : from the forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the third of King George II : with cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, upon the several clauses of them. In a method entirely new
A treatise on the statute of frauds, as it regards declarations in trust, contracts, surrenders, conveyances, and the execution and proof of wills and codicils. To which is prefixed a systematic dissertation upon the admissibility of parol and extrinsic evidence, to explain and controul written instruments
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred to the [twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one]
Volume 1 dated 1797; v. 2 dated 1798 (some copies misdated 1793); v. 3 dated 1795; v. 4 dated 1801.
Imprint of v. 4 reads: Lancaster: Printed by Francis Bailey, Centre-Square, 1801.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 574a, 574b, 575a, 575b, 576, and 577.
At top of title page of vol 2, copy 2: For the use of the Board of Commissioners, Lancaster County."
Evans,
Contents
I. October 14, 1700-October 1, 1781. 1797 -- II. October 2, 1781-October 2,1790. 1793 -- III. December 7, 1790-April 20, 1795. 1795 -- IV. December 1, 1795-February 27, 1801. 1801.
An essay on privateers, captures and particularly on recaptures : according to the laws, treaties, and usages of the maritime powers of Europe : briefly stated according to the modern law of the nations of Europe ... The rights and duties of neutrality
Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, from July A.D. 1789 to June A.D. 1793; with a variety of cases anterior to that period. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court
V. 1. June 1789-June 1793 -- v. 2. June 1793-June 1798; being four years and a half, or nine circuits.
Summary
"With a variety of cases anterior to that period [1764-1789]. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court."--T.p.
Blackstone's Commentaries : with notes of reference, to the Constitution and laws, of the federal government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia : in five volumes, with an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view of the laws of Virginia, as a member of the federal union
Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small ... Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1803.
Physical Description
5 v. : geneal. tables (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
"This edition by 'St. George Tucker ... ' follows the text of the ninth edition, London, 1783. It contains a selection of Christian's notes, marked with his name"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938.
Pagination of the Commentaries is that of another edition.
Signatures: v. 1: [A]â´ B-4Gâ´; v. 2: [A]â´ B-4Fâ´ (4F4 blank); v. 3: pi² A-5Aâ´ 5B1, IV leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 4: pi² A-4Lâ´ [4M]1; v. 5: pi² A-4Gâ´ 5A-5Fâ´ 5G².
Errata: v. 1, leaf 4G4; v. 4, leaf [4M]1.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 350, 351, 352, 353, 354 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cohen, M.L. Bibliography of Early American law,
Eller, C.S. William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
The English pleader : being a select collection of various precedents of declarations of actions brought in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, in case, debt, covenant, trespass and assault, ejectment, replevin, prohibition, &c. : taken from the Rolls of the treasury of the said courts, and forms settled by counsel and special pleaders, since the commencement of the act of Parliament for the laws being in the English language, and is the only book approv'd of for authentick precedents : to which are added, the forms of pleas and issues both general and special, with replications thereto, and also judgments in both courts on the several actions, and likewise forms and precedents of recoveries and concords of fines with a method of suffering and passing the same
by several gentlemen in the respective branches of the law.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan ... for G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Payne, E. & R. Brooke & J. Rider, J. Butterworth, and L. White, Dublin,
Date of Publication
1799-1806.
Physical Description
6 volumes ; 25 cm (8vo)
Notes
"The titles, practice, pleading, and crown law, were prepared by J.E. Watson, S. Comyn, and J. Sedgwick; Chancery and equity, by H. Alcock and J. Wyatt; conveyancing, by J. Humphreys; and the other titles, by A. Anstruther, M. Nolan, and J. Sedgwick. Eunomus, 20."--Marvin.
Vol. 1 and 2 were published in 1799, v. 3 in 1800, v. 4 in 1801, v. 5 in 1805, and v. 6 in 1806. Imprints vary in v. 4-6.
The second edition of Charles Viner's A general abridgment of law and equity was published 1791-1795.
Vol. 1: xv, [1], 606 p.; v. 2: xii, 583, [1] p.; v. 3: xvi, 563, [1] p.; v. 4: xvii, [3], 452 p.
Errata: v. 4, p. [2], 2nd group of paging.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1-3 only. Has bookseller's labels: Geo. Greenland, London.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Books numbers 332, 333, 334, 335 336, and 337 as assigned by Yeates.
English Short Title Catalogue,
Contents
V. 1. Abatement-Bye-laws -- v. 2. Canons-Creditor and debtor -- v. 3. Creditor and bankrupt-Duress -- v. 4. Ejectment-Funeral charges.
The attorney's practice in the Court of King's Bench : or, An introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that court, as it now stands under the regulation of several late acts of Parliament, rules and determinations of the said court : with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, settled or drawn by counsel ; and a complete index to the whole
written in French by Monsieur Domat, the late French King's Advocate in the Presidial Court of Clermont in France, and translated into English by William Strahan, LL. D. Advocate in Doctors Commons ; with additional remarks on some material differences between the civil law and the law of England.
Printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, G. Strahan, J. and J. Pemberton, R. Ware, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley and J. Wood, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, and R. Hett,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 36 cm (fol.)
Notes
In this second edition, vol. 1 ends on p.670 and the last numbered page in vol. 2 is p.676 [i.e. 706], pp. 700-706 being misnumbered pp. 670-676; after p. 676 comes the unpaginated index.
In double columns with marginalia.
Includes index and errata at end of vol. 2.
Engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 714 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Bibliothecae ecclesiae Cicestrensis librorum catalogus (1871),
An abridgment of the first part of my Ld. Coke's Institutes : with some additions explaining many of the difficult cases, and shewing in what points the law has been altered by late resolutions and acts of parliament
First part of the institutes of the laws of England
Edition
The fifth edition, to which is now added a large index in the nature of an analysis of the most general heads.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.), for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description
vi, 501, [99] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Hawkins's abridgment of the commentary of Sir Edward Coke on Littleton from Coke's First part of the institutes of the laws of England. Hawkins omits Coke's reprint of Littleton's Tenures and such parts of Coke as were obsolete when the work was compiled. Cf., J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliog.
Signatures: Aâ´( -A4) B-2C¹².
Publisher's advertisements, "Books sold by T. Osborne in Grays Inn," on final leaf (leaf 2C12).
A Digest of the laws of the United States of America : being a complete system, (alphabetically arranged) of all the public acts of Congress now in force-from the commencement of the federal government, to the end of the third session of the Fifth Congress, which terminated in March 1799, inclusive
The reports of several cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer. In the I, II, III, IV, and V years of His present Majesty King George II [1727-1732]
New reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and other courts, from Easter term, 44 Geo. III. 1804, [to Trinity term, 47 Geo. III. 1807 ...] both inclusive. With tables of cases and principal matters
Reports of cases argued and ruled at nisi prius : in the courts of King's Bench, and Common Pleas, from Easter term 33 George III. 1793, to ... [Hilary term 39 George III. 1799]
