Le beau-pledeur. A book of entries, containing declarations, informations and other select and approved pleadings: with special verdicts and demurrers, in most actions, real, personal, and mixt, which have been argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster. Together with faithful references to the most authentick printed law-books now extant, where the cases of these entries are reported; and a more copious and useful table than hath been hitherto printed in any book of entries. The whole comprehending the very art and method of good pleading
The exact pleader : a book of entries of choice, select and special pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the reign of His present Majesty King Charles II : with the method of proceeding in all manner of actions in the same court
Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Christopher Wilkinson, Tho. Dring, and Charles Harper, at their shops in Fleet-Street,
Date of Publication
MDCLXXXIV [1684]
Physical Description
[24], 266 [i.e. 268], [20] p. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: pi² a-e² B-2Lⴠ2M-2R².
Errors in paging: p. 137-140 omitted, p. 103-104, 133-136 repeated in the numbering; p. 113, 116, 214, 250 and 251 misnumbered 413, 416, 216, 242 and 243 respectively.
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
The transactions of the High Court of Chancery, both by practice and president, with the fees thereunto belonging, and all speciall orders in extraordinary cases, which are to be found in the Registers office as they are quoated by tearmes, yeares & bookes
A book of special entries of declarations, pleadings, issues, verdicts, judgments, and judicial process : in such actions as are now in use, and have not hitherto been published in any printed book of precedents : together with such notes and observations as do either illustrate or explain the same : as also such parts of pleadings and judicial process which do naturally fall under the division of each distinct title, as necessary and incident thereunto
Reuised, corrected, and enlarged, in the 4th yeare of the peaceable raigne of Our Most Gracious King Iames.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Company of Stationers,
Date of Publication
1607.
Physical Description
[2], 621, [81] pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes
Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.
Printed by Adam Islip. Cf. STC.
Signatures: A-2Xâ¸.
Errors in paging: p. 315, 317, and 619 incorrectly numbered 215, 217, and 519 respectively.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Signature of Richard Dauxell on back of title page.
Book number 229 as assigned by Yeates.
With: Lambarde, William. The duties of constables, borsholders, tythingmen ... London : Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1606. Bound together subsequent to publication.
The office of the clerk of assize : containing the form and method of the proceedings at the Assizes and General Gaol-Delivery as also on the crown and nisi prius side : together with The office of the clerk of the peace : shewing the true manner and form of the proceedings at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace : wih divers forms of presentments and other precedents at assizes and sessions : with a table of fees thereunto belonging
Reports of sevral special cases argued and resolved in the Court of Common Pleas : in the XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIXth years of King Charles II., in the time when Sir Orlando Bridgman sate chief justice there : to which are added, some cases adjudged in the time of Chief Justice Vaughan, never before printed [1664-1675]
Select cases in B.R. 22, 23, & 24 Car. I Regis, : reported by John Aleyn late of Greys Inn Esq; with tables of the names of the cases and of the matters therein contained: also of the names of the learned councel who argued the same
Printed for Robert Pawlet, at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-street,
Date of Publication
1681.
Physical Description
[8], 95, [13] p. ; (fol.)
Notes
Imprimatur on leaf pi1v: I do approve the publishing of the reports of this learned and judicious author for the benefit of the students of the law. Fra. North.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book plate on back of front cover of Stephen Chambers struck as well as his signature on title page along with two other former owners.