Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
Report of the trial and acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice, and Jasper Yeates and Thomas Smith, Esquires, Assistant Justices, of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, on an impeachment, before the Senate of the Commonwealth, January, 1805
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 ...
An essay on privateers, captures and particularly on recaptures : according to the laws, treaties, and usages of the maritime powers of Europe : briefly stated according to the modern law of the nations of Europe ... The rights and duties of neutrality
Sistema universale dei principi di diritto marittimo.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by George Forman ... for I. Riley & Co.,
Date of Publication
1806.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Revision of a work originally published in Italian under title: Sistema universale dei principii del diritto marittimo dell'Europa.
Vol. 1: xxxii, 424 p.; v. 2: viii, 430, [2] p.
Errata: v. 2, p. [1] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 809-810 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
Shaw, R. American bibliography,
Contents
V. 1. Of the empire of the sea -- Of the territorial sea -- Of the effects of the empire of the territorial sea -- Of the origin and progress of maritime law -- v. 2. Of the rights of belligerent and neutral nations -- Of the freedom of maritime commerce in time of war -- Of the collision between the rights of belligerents and neutrals -- Of the rights of belligerents on the sea and their consequences -- Of various other rights which may be excerised on the sea.
by Richard Peters, comprising also some decisions in the same court, by the late Francis Hopkinson, to which are added cases determined in other districts of the United States. With an appendix containing --The laws of Oleron.--The laws of Wisbuy.--The laws of the Hanse towns.--The Marine ordinances of Louis XIV.--A treatise on the rights and duties of owners, freighters, and masters of ships, and of mariners: and the laws of the United States relative to mariners.
Published by William P. Farrand; Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Preface signed: Richard Peters, Jun.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
On verso of front flyleaf: "Affectionely presented to Judge Yeates - by his old & Sincere] Friend, Classmate, and Fellow Student, Richard Peters, Aug. 1807."
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Sixth Congress, : began and held at the city of Philadelphia, December 2d, 1799; and in the twenty-fourth year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Vol 3 published by John Patterson, New York, no date; vol 7 published by John Patterson, New York, 1787; vol 9 published by John Dunlap, Philadelphia; vol 12 place and publisher not identified, 1887; vol 13 place not identified. printed by Jon Dunlap.
Contents
v. 1. Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776 -- v. 2. Jan. 1, 1776 to Dec. 31, 1776 -- v. 3. Jan. 1, 1777 to Jan. 1, 1778 -- v. 4. Jan. 1, 1778 to Jan. 1, 1779 -- v. 5. Jan. 1, 1779 to Jan. 1, 1780 -- v. 6. Jan. 1, 1780 to Jan. 1, 1781 -- v. 7. Jan. 1, 1781 to Nov. 2, 1782 -- v. 8. Nov. 2, 1782 to Nov. 1, 1783 -- v. 9. Nov. 3, 1783 to June 3, 1784. Contains also: Journal of the Committee of the States : containing the proceedings from the first Friday in June, 1784, to the second Friday in August, 1784 (29 p. at end) -- v. 10. Nov. 1, 1784 to Nov. 4, 1785 -- v. 11. Nov. 4, 1785 to Nov. 3, 1786 -- v. 12. Nov. 6, 1786 to Nov. 5, 1787 -- v. 13. Nov. 5, 1787 to Nov. 3, 1788.
