The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
Election results for a commissioner, Barnard Huberly, and accessors, David Taylor, Nathaniel Lightner, Joshua Anderson, William Jones, Zacheus Davis, Jacob Sincinick.
1 item, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
The history and practice of the High Court of Chancery : in which is introduced, an account of the institution and various regulations of the said Court, shewing likewise the ancient and present practice thereof in an easy and familiar method
by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert ; printed from a correct manuscript copy, free from the numerous errors and omissions of the Irish edition ; to which are added, many new references, and proper tables to the whole.
Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer, from the beginning of the reign of King George the First, until the fourteenth year of the reign of King George the Second. [1713-1741]
Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head in the Strand, London ; and A. Kincaid, and J. Bell, Edinburgh,
Date of Publication
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description
2 v. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. I: xvi, 430 p.; v. II: 221, [1], 54 p.
"The discourses relate, each of them, to subjects common to the law of England and of Scotland"--Preface.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 672 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Contents
I. History of the criminal law -- II. History of promises and covenants -- III. History of property -- IV. History of securities upon land for payment of debt -- V. History of the privilege which an heir-apparent in a feudal holding has, to continue the possession of his ancestor -- VI. History of regalities, and of the privilege of repledging -- VII. History of courts -- V. 2, VIII. History of brieves -- IX. History of process in absence -- X. History of execution against movables and land for payment of debt -- XI. History of personal execution for payment of debt -- XII. History of execution for obtaining payment after the death of the debtor -- XIII. History of the limited and universal representation of heirs -- XIV. Old and new extent -- Appendix.
The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations
The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.
