Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for D. Browne ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description
[4], 356, [16] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
"The use of the law" was probably not written by Bacon. Cf. Gibson.
Signatures: pi² A-Z⸠2A².
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page and on front life..
Book numbefr 830 as assigned by Yeates.
With an index.
Gibson, R. Bacon,
ESTC
Contents
(from t. p.) 1. A proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws -- 2. An offer of a digest of the laws -- 3. The elements of the common laws of England ... -- 4. The use of the law for preservation of our persons, goods, and good names, according to the practice of the laws and customs of this land -- 5. Cases of treason, felony, praemunire, prerogative of the King, of the office of a constable -- 6. Arguments in law in certain great and difficult cases ... -- 7. Ordinances ... -- 8. Reading on the statute of uses.
The second part of Modern reports : being a collection of several special cases most of them adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas, in the 26, 27 ... 30th years of the reign of King Charles II. ... To which are added, several select cases in the Courts of Chancery, Kings-Bench, and Exchequer in the said years
