The life of the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, knight, lord chief justice of the Court of King's-bench; containing several arguments touching the rights and liberties of the people, delivered by his lordship, with great reason and remarkable courage, upon most important occasions, during the reigns of Their Majesties, King William the Third, and Queen Anne; taken from the report of the Lord Chief Justice Raymond, &c. And an abstract of Lord Chief Justice Holt's will, codicils, &c. Also points of law, resolved by his lordship, on evidence, at nisi prius. With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports. Never before published
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
Reports of that learned and judicious clerk, J. Gouldsborough, Esq., sometimes one of the protonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, or his collection of choice cases and matters agitated in all the courts at Westminster in the latter yeares of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with learned arguments at the barr and on the bench, and the grave resolutions and judgements thereupon of the chief justices Anderson and Popham, and the rest of the judges of those times : never before published, and now printed by his original copy, with short notes in the margent of the chief matters therein contained, with the yeare, terme, and number roll of many of the cases : and two exact tables, viz. a briefer, of the names of the severall cases, with the nature of the actions on which they are founded : and a larger, of all the remarkable things contained in the whole book
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
A report of cases in Chancery, the King's Bench, &c. In the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh and eighth years of His late Majesty, King George the Second [1730-1734]; during which time Lord King was lord high chancellor of Great Britain, and the Lord Raymond and Lord Hardwicke were lord chief justices of England
"The volume consists of two parts; the first (p. 1-43, and index) contains Chancery cases, 1730-1732, the second (p. 57-299) contains King's bench cases, 1731-1734. It has been cited as 2 Kelynge, to distinguish it from 1 (or J.) Kelyng."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884, p. 97, note 56.
The 1st edition, 1740, has title: A report of select cases in Chancery.
"Law books lately published and sold by John Worrall": [1] p. at end of pt. 2.
"Carefully compared with, and corrected by, the original rolls and records ... by ... Lewis [Weiss] and Charles Brockden."
Known as the "big Peter Miller" to distinguish it from the octavo edition.
Appendix has special t.p. and separate paging.
Errata affixed on back of title page.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Contents
I. Containing the charters of the said province, and the city, boroughs and towns thereof; the titles of all the laws of said province, since its first establishment down to the year 1700; the acts of the said Assembly from the year 1700 to 1743, now in force; and the royal confirmations and repeals of the said acts.--II. Containing the acts of Assembly of the said province, from the year 1744 to 1759, now in force; [and An appendix] a collection of all the laws that have been formerly in force within this province, for regulating of descents and transferring the property of lands, but are since expired, altered, or repealed; form the establishment of the province, down to this present time ... Together with an index, referring to the matters contained in both the volumes.
The law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-notes, and insurances : containing all the statutes, cases at large, arguments, resolutions, judgments, decrees, and customs of merchants concerning them, methodically digested ; together with rules and examples for computing the exchange between England and the principal places of trade in Europe : also, the arbitrations of exchange ... illustrated with variety of examples
Reports of that reverend and learned judge Sir Humphry Winch, Knight, sometimes one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas : containing many choice cases and excellent matters touching declarations, pleadings, demurrers, judgements, and resolutions in points of law, in the foure last years of the raign of King James
faithfully translated out of an exact French copie, with two alphabetical and necessary tables, the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters contained in this book.
Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleetstreet,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
[8], 125, [11] p. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: A-Sâ´ (S4 blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at the top of title page.
Book number 743 as assinged by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
The crown circuit companion : containing the practice of the assises on the crown side and of the courts of general and general quarter sessions of the peace, wherein (among other things incident to the practice of the crown law) is included a collection of useful and modern precedents of indictments in criminal cases, as well at common law, as those created by statute
The fourth edition to which is added, The clerk of assise's circuit companion, and tables of fees of the officers and servants belonging to the judges on the curcuit, usually taken by them, also many new precedents of indictments, and the laws continued down to the present time.
The fourth edition to which is added, The clerk of assise's circuit companion, and tables of fees of the officers and servants belonging to the judges on the curcuit, usually taken by them, also many new precedents of indictments, and the laws continued down to the present time.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by and for Sarah Cotter, under Dick's Coffee House in Skinner-Row,
Doctor and student, or, Dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student in the laws of England : containing the grounds of those laws, together with questions and cases concerning the equity and conscience thereof : also comparing the civil, canon, common and statute laws, and shewing wherein they vary from one another
Dyaloge in Englysshe bytwyxt a doctoure of dyvynyte and a student in the lawes of Englande
Edition
The sixteenth edition,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot, Law-Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, for J. Worrall at the Dove in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's Inn,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXI [1761].
Physical Description
[16], 344, [40] p. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
The preface identifies Christopher Saint German as the author.
Signatures: A-2Bâ¸.
"Additions to the second dialogue of the doctor and student: containing thirteen chapters on the power and jurisdiction of the Parliment, &c. Printed in the year 1531, at the end of the then edition of the Doctor and student, but omitted in all the editions of that book since, except the last, and was then restored (by J.W.) and now reprinted by his Majesty's Law Printer, for J. Worrall (p. [303]-344) has a special title page.
Includes index.
Errata: p. [39] at end.
"Law books lately published, wrote by Lord Chief Baron Gilbert, sold by J. Worrall": page [40] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 827 as assigned by Yeates.
"Law books lately published, wrote by Lord Chief Baron Gilbert, sold by J. Worrall": verso of p. 39.
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law : as also the whole law and practice thereof, under all the heads and titles : together with such informations relating thereto, as explain the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgements, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories published to this time