An enquiry into the use and practice of juries among the Greeks and Romans : from whence the origin of the English jury may probably be deduced : in three parts
An historical and political discourse of the laws and government of England : from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with a vindication of the antient way of parliaments in England
Printed by Mark Basket, printer to the King, and by the assigns of Robert Basket, and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
Date of Publication
1769-1800.
Physical Description
18 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Imprint varies.
Originally planned "In Eight Volumes."
Vols. 15-18: "being an eleventh [-fourteenth] volume to Mr. Runnington's edition, and a fifteenth [-eighteenth] to Mr. Ruffhead's, [completing those editions to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland]."
Includes indexes.
LCHS wantin vols 5 and 14.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 626-642 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
v. 1. 1225-1460 -- v. 2. 1461-1601 -- v. 3. 1604-1698 -- v. 4. 1699-1713 -- v. 5. 1714-1729 -- v. 6. 1730-1746 -- v. 7. 1747-1756 -- v. 8. 1757-1762 -- v. 9. 1762-1763 -- v. 10. 1765-1770 -- v. 11. 1771-1773 -- v. 12. 1774-1776 -- v. 13. 1777-1780 -- v. 14. 1781-1785 -- v. 15. 1786-1789 -- v. 16. 1790-1794 -- v. 17. 1795-1798 -- v. 18. 1799-1800.
A series of the decisions of The Court of King's Bench upon settlement-cases ; from The Death of Lord Raymond in March 1732: To which is Added A Complete Abridgment of the Substance of each Case, and two Tables of the Names of them. Published for the Use of Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, and of Barristers and others attending the Quarter-Sessions. By James Burrow, Esq ; Master of the Crown-Office, and one of the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove, in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn,
Date of Publication
M DCC LXVIII. [1768]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: Containing near Fifteen Years, and including Lord Chief Justice Ryder's Time and the first Twelve Years of Lord Mansfield's. To this Volume is added an index to both Volumes. And there are also subjoined A few thoughts upon pointing and some other Helps towards perspicuity of expression.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 650 and 651 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate removed from vol. 1; bookplate of Godfrey Lill, Esq. his Majestys Solicitor Gen. of Ireland in vol 2.
collected and methodized by John Tracy Atkyns ... with notes and references, and three tables; one of the several titles with their divisions, another of the names of the cases, and a third of the principal matters.
The commentaries, or Reports of Edmund Plowden ... containing divers cases upon matters of law, argued and adjudged in the several reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary, King and Queen Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth [1548-1579]
Originally written in French, and now faithfully translated into English, and considerably improved by many marginal notes and references to all the books of the common law, both ancient and modern. To which are added, the quaeries of Mr. Plowden, now first rendered into English at large, with references, and many useful observations. In two parts. With two new tables, more compleat than any yet published; the one, of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters ...
Printed by Catharine Lintot, and Samuel Richardson, for the translator,
Date of Publication
1761.
Physical Description
2 parts in 1 volume frontispiece, table 37 cm
Notes
The two parts are paged continuously; immediately following pt. 2 is the case of Basset and Morgan versus Manxel, at Serjeants Inn (15 p.), this case is followed by The quaeries (68 p.) with special t.p.
The frontispiece is engraved and the upper part consists of a portrait within an oval frame bearing the inscription: Edmund Plowden Serjeant at Law T.R. 27 Oct. 5 & 6 P. and M.A.D. 1558; in the lower part is a monument containing the recumbent figure of Plowden; beneath the lower right hand corner of the front.: T. Stayner Sculp.; at foot of the front.: Printed for J. Worrall at the Dove in Bell Yard near Lincoln's Inn.
"His portrait has been engraved by T. Stagner, and his monument by J.T. Smith."--Dict. nat. biog. under Plowden.
Pt. 2 has special title: The second part of The commentaries, or Reports of Edmund Plowden ...
A report of some proceedings on the commission of Oyer and terminer and goal delivery : for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases
De pace Regis et regni : viz. a treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and the kingdome, as treasons, homicides, and felonies, menaces, assaults, batteries, ryots, routs, vnlawfull assemblies, forcible entries, forgeries, periuries, maintenance, deceit, extortion, oppression : and how many and what sorts of them there be, and by whom, and what meanes the said offences, and the offendors therein are to be restrained, repressed, or punished
collected out of the reports of the common laws of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painefull workes of the reuerend iudges, Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes by Ferdinando Pulton ...