A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c
The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
Les termes de la ley : or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained
Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words /
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXI [1721].
Physical Description
[4], 592 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Anonymous. By John Rastell. Possibly translated by John Rastell's son William.
First published in 1527 as "Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum."
Signatures: [A]² B-2Pâ¸.
Copy 2 has the initials L. T. K, 1774 at top of title page and signature of Jno. Yeates on back of front cover, and on front leaf and inscription "Jrai Rddai moddyybiy"; Binding is full blind-tooled decorated leather.
Jasper Yeates' Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 832 on both copies as asssigned by Yeates.
The Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments & other rites & ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America together with the Psalter or Psalms of David
Placita coronae, or, Pleas of the crown, in matters criminal and civil : containing a large collection of modern precedents, viz. appeals, convictions, certiorari's and pleadings thereto, indictments, informations, traverses, pleadings, &c., writs of mandamus, -- quo warranto, -- restitution, -- habeas corpus, &c., and returns thereof : with great variety of precedents, under many other hands, relating to the crown law
A general abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole. With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, of the matter under general heads
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench : from the thirty-third year of King Charles the Second, to the ninth year of King William the Third. [1681-1697] With some arguments in special cases
Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the ninth day of October, Anno Dom. 1722 ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty seventh day of June, 1727. Being the sixth session of this present Parliament
Printed by John Baskett ... and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills.,
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Physical Description
42, 666, [2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Each act constitutes a chapter; each chapter has a caption title, and most have a general t.p.
LHS copy imperfect: all chapters except 5 (second occurrence), 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21 wanting. Transcription of title from general t.p. prefixed to chapter 1.
The general t.p. for the second group of paging has the phrase: At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty third day of January, Anno Dom. 1727 ... being the first session of this present Parliament.
The doctrine of the new birth, : exemplified in the life and religious experience of Onesimus, from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth year of his age, or from the year 1779 to 1793, inclusive. : Also, the visions which he saw concerning the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the days when George Washington was the president of the United States of North America, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1792. The visions with several of the special events of his life shall be illustrated with twenty plates, and the whole designed as a defence of the truth of the Gospel, and proof of the immortality of the human soul. Written in twenty letters, and dedicated to Elder Joseph Maylin. Onesimus
