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Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

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Date of Publication
1792.
Call Number
Book 666 1792
Alternate Title
Conductor generalis
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace
Responsibility
compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Robert Campbell,
Date of Publication
1792.
Physical Description
xv, 464 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A-2G⁸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbr 666 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Early works to 1800.
Sheriffs - Early works to 1800.
Coroners - Early works to 1800.
Constables - Early works to 1800.
Jury - Early works to 1800.
Internal revenue law - United States - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - New York (State) - Early works to 1800.
Constables.
Coroners.
Fines and recoveries.
Internal revenue law.
Jury.
Justices of the peace.
Militia.
Sheriffs.
United States - Militia - Early works to 1800.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Parker, James,
Gentleman of the law.
Burn, Richard,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 666 1792
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The practice of the courts of King's bench and Common pleas. Originally compiled by George Crompton, esq. Revised, corrected, and newly arranged

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Author
Crompton, George,
Edition
2d ed., with the addition of the modern cases to the present time , and a practical treatise on the mode of passing fines and suffering recoveries ...
Date of Publication
1798.
Call Number
Book 981 1798
Book 982 1798
Responsibility
by Baker John Sellon ...
Author
Crompton, George,
Edition
2d ed., with the addition of the modern cases to the present time , and a practical treatise on the mode of passing fines and suffering recoveries ...
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Butterworth,
Date of Publication
1798.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 21 cm
Notes
Originally published , 1780, under title: Practice common-placed; or, The rules and cases of practice in the courts of King's bench and Common pleas.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 781and892 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain. - Court of Common Pleas - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain. - Court of Common Pleas.
Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure.
Fines and recoveries.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Sellon, B. J.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 981 1798
Book 982 1798
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The accomplish'd practiser in the High Court of Chancery : shewing the whole method of proceedings, according to the present practice, from the bill to the appeal inclusive

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Author
Harrison, Joseph,
Edition
7th ed., (being a new one) upon a plan different from that pursued in the former editions of this work with all the practice enlarged under every head, and an addition of precedents of all kinds; the proceedings upon a commission of lunacy; with additional notes and references to the ancient and modern reports in equity /
Date of Publication
1790.
Call Number
Book 512 1790
Book 513 1790
Alternate Title
Harrison's chancery practice
Responsibility
by Joseph Harrison.
Author
Harrison, Joseph,
Edition
7th ed., (being a new one) upon a plan different from that pursued in the former editions of this work with all the practice enlarged under every head, and an addition of precedents of all kinds; the proceedings upon a commission of lunacy; with additional notes and references to the ancient and modern reports in equity /
Place of Publication
London : for T. Whieldon ; and R. Pheney
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall ;
Date of Publication
1790.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 22 cm
Notes
"Containing the original power and jurisdiction of the Chancery, both as a court of law and equity; the Office of the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, and the rest of the officers; also, the best forms and precedents of bills, answers, pleas, demurrers, writs, commissions, interrogatories, affidavits, petitions, and orders: together with a list of the officers and their fees: likewise other matters useful for practisers."
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 512 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Williams, John Griffith,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 512 1790
Book 513 1790
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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]

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1797-1801.
Call Number
Book 574a 1797
Book 574b 1797
Book 575b 1793
Book 575a 1793
Book 576 1795
Book 577 1801
Responsibility
Republished, under the authority of the legislature, by Alexander James Dallas ...
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers,
Date of Publication
1797-1801.
Physical Description
4 volumes 33 cm
Notes
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.
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Early works.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Dallas, Alexander James,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 574a 1797
Book 574b 1797
Book 575b 1793
Book 575a 1793
Book 576 1795
Book 577 1801
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An introductory lecture to a course of law lectures

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Author
Wilson, James,
Date of Publication
1791.
Call Number
Book 662 1791a
Responsibility
by James Wilson ... ; to which is added, a plan of the lectures.
Author
Wilson, James,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
From the press of T. Dobson,
Date of Publication
1791.
Physical Description
96 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-L⁴ M².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Collectanea Juridica. consisting of tracts relative to the law and constitution of England London: E. and R. Brooke, 1791.
Evans
Subjects
Law - United States - Early works to 1800.
Law.
Law
United States.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 662 1791a
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An explanation of the practice of law : containing the elements of special pleading, reduced to the comprehension of every one; also, elements of a plan for a reform: shewing that the plaintiff's costs in a common action, which at present amount to from 25 to 35-1. need not exceed 10-1. and those of the defendant, which are now from 12 to 20-1. need not exceed 6-1

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Author
Schiefer, John Frederic.
Date of Publication
1793.
Call Number
Bookk 670 1793
Responsibility
By John Frederic Schiefer, member of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn.
Author
Schiefer, John Frederic.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by J. Stockdale, for Messrs. E. Lynch, P. Byrne, J. Moore, W. Jones, R. McAllister, H. Watts, and J. Rice,
Date of Publication
1793.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 340 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-Y⁸ Z².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 670 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reform - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reform.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Early works
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Stockdale, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 670 1793
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Modus intrandi placita generalia : the entring clerk's introduction : being a collection of such precedents of declarations, and other pleadings, with process as well mesn as judicial, as are generally used in every days practice : with notes and observations thereupon composed, for the benefit of the students of the common law of England, as also of the attorneys, entring clerks, and sollicitors of the courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, acquainting them with the rudiments of clerkship, and such general pleadings and process as are used at this day in the courts of record at Westminster

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Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Call Number
Book 1024 1702
Book 1025 1703
Alternate Title
Entring clerk's introduction
Responsibility
by William Brown, Gent., author of Formulae bene placitandi.
Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires for J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 2 has no ed. statement.
Vol. 1: [24], 406, [34] p.; v. 2: [8], 315, [15] p.
Bookseller's advertisement: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck owner.
Book numbers 1024 and 1025 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Pleading - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law)
Pleading.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1024 1702
Book 1025 1703
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The law of ejectments, or, A treatise shewing the nature of ejectione firme, the difference between it and trespass, and how to be brought or removed where the lands lie in franchises. ... As also who are good witnesses or not in the trial on ejectment, and what shall be allowed good evidence or not ... Together with the learning of special verdicts at large, relating to titles of land and estates in several rules, and of judgments with their several forms of entries in special cases ... Very necessary for all lawyers, attornies, and other persons, especially at the assises, &c ?

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Date of Publication
1700.
Call Number
Bookk 197 1700
Alternate Title
Treatise shewing the nature of ejectione firme
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Deeve at Bernards Inn Gate in Holbourn,
Date of Publication
1700.
Physical Description
[18], 268, [26] pages ; (8vo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page under struck former owner.
Book number 197 as assigned by Yeates.
With an index.
Pages 202-208 misnumbered 182-187 and 108.
Signatures: pi1 A-T⁸ U⁴.
With a preliminary advertisement leaf.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.)
Subjects
Ejectment - England - Early works to 1800.
Ejectment.
England.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Early works.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 197 1700
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia

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Corporate Author
Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCVIII-MDCCXCIX [1798-1799]
Call Number
Book 304 1798
Book 305 1799
Responsibility
by Bushrod Washington.
Corporate Author
Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals,
Place of Publication
Richmond
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Nicolson,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCVIII-MDCCXCIX [1798-1799]
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Covers the period 1790-1796.
Vol. 1: [8], 392, [32] p.; v. 2: vii, [1], 302, [2], 19, [1] p. ([2] p., 4th group of paging, is blank.)
Includes indexes.
Errata: v. 1, p. [31-32] at end; v. 2, p. "vi-v" [i.e. v-vi].
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 304 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
Evans, C. American bibliography,
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Virginia - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Virginia.
Court decisions and opinions.
Early works
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Washington, Bushrod,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Place
Virginia Richmond.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 304 1798
Book 305 1799
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A treatise concerning trespasses vi et armis : wherein the nature of trespass is clearly explicated and the gist of the action stated and by whom such actions may be brought and against whom and how to be laid

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Author
Carter, Samuel
Date of Publication
1704.
Call Number
Book 435 1704
Responsibility
by the author of Lex customaria.
Author
Carter, Samuel
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of R. and E. Atkins for J. Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1704.
Physical Description
[16], 344, [24] p. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A-2A⁸.
Includes index.
Bookseller's advertisements: p. [21-24] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under previous owner's and another signature struck.
Book number 435 as assinged by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Trespass - England - Early works to 1800.
Trespass.
England.
Tresspass vi et armis
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Walthoe, John,
Chase, Samuel,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 435 1704
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