Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases, argued and determined in the Provincial court and Court of appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799] ... Selected from the records of the state, and from notes of some of the most eminent counsel who practised law within that period
Printed and published by I. Riley. For sale by Coale & Thomas, Baltimore; Seymour & Williams, Savannah
Date of Publication
1809-18.
Physical Description
4 volumes 24 cm
Notes
Vols. 2-4 have title: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the General court and Court of appeals of the state of Maryland ...
Imprint varies: v. 2 New York: Printed by C. Wiley, no. 28 Provost street. 1812.--v. 3. New York: Published by I. Riley, no. 55 Pine-street. 1813.--v. 4. Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, printer to the state. 1818.
Library lacks volume 4.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 356, 357 and 358 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[I] From the year 1700 (i.e. 1658) down to the American revolution.--[II] From May, 1780, to May, 1790.--III. From October, 1790, to May, 1797.--IV. From May, 1797, to the end of 1799. With an appendix of cases argued and determined in the late Provincial court.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and Exchequer Chamber, and in the House of Lords: from Easter term 36 Geo. III. 1796, to [Hilary term 44 Geo. III. 1804] ... both inclusive. With tables of the cases and principal matters
Vol 1 has imprint: Dublin, Printed by J. Moore, No. 45 College-Green, 1800.
Vol. 3 has imprint: Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, no. 182, Market Street. 1805.
"The cases ... begin with 1797; but at the end of vol. 1 there are cases in 1796, from notes taken by Mr. A. Moore. In the folio edition (1800) these seem to have been sometimes bound separately, and to have been cited as A. Moore's reports."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 987, 988, and 989 as assigned by Yeates.
A Digest of the laws of the United States of America : being a complete system, (alphabetically arranged) of all the public acts of Congress now in force-from the commencement of the federal government, to the end of the third session of the Fifth Congress, which terminated in March 1799, inclusive
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]
"There is a chasm in all the copies of the first edition of Hardres of pp. 233-300 inclusive, and the catchword at the bottom of p. 232 would indicate that something was actually omitted."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Imperfect: 1st-3d, 6th prelim. leaves wanting; supplied in photostat facsimile.
Reports of cases in the county courts of the Fifth circuit, and in the High courts of errors & appeals, of the state of Pennsylvania. [1791-1799] And Charges to grand juries of those county courts
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred to the [twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one]
Volume 1 dated 1797; v. 2 dated 1798 (some copies misdated 1793); v. 3 dated 1795; v. 4 dated 1801.
Imprint of v. 4 reads: Lancaster: Printed by Francis Bailey, Centre-Square, 1801.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 574a, 574b, 575a, 575b, 576, and 577.
At top of title page of vol 2, copy 2: For the use of the Board of Commissioners, Lancaster County."
Evans,
Contents
I. October 14, 1700-October 1, 1781. 1797 -- II. October 2, 1781-October 2,1790. 1793 -- III. December 7, 1790-April 20, 1795. 1795 -- IV. December 1, 1795-February 27, 1801. 1801.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: : from the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, to the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and four. : Published, under the authority of the legislature, by Thomas M'Kean Thompson. : Vol. VI
Added title page (p. [1]): Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: passed at a session, which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. Published by authority. Octoraro: Printed by Francis Bailey. 1804.
"Secretary's-Office, Lancaster, June 29, 1804. I certify, that ... the laws comprised in this volume, and passed during one session of the legislature, commencing on the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three ... have been collated with and corrected by the original rolls. T.M. Thompson, secretary of the commonwealth."--Title page verso.
"Table of private acts."--Page [iii]-iv, 1st count.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : from the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, both days inclusive
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : from the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six, to the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, both days inclusive. : Published under the authority of the legislature, by Thomas M'Kean Thompson. : Vol. VIII
The session laws for 1806 have a separate title page and are also recorded separately at Shaw & Shoemaker 15869: Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, passed at a session, which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday, the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven. And of the independence of the United States of America, the thirty-second. Published by authority.
"This volume comprises the laws and resolutions passed during two sessions of the legislature, from December 2d, 1806, until March 28th, 1808, inclusive.--In printing the acts of the second session, an error ... occurred in the paging. The paging instead of having reference to, and being in continuation of the laws of the first session, begins with number one ... such reference in the index, having an asterisk (*) affixed to it, is intended to direct to a page of the laws passed during the second session."--Preface, p. [i].
