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Reports of cases taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the reigns of King Charles I., Charles II., and James II. : being special cases and most of them decreed with the assistance of the judges, and all of them referring to the register books : wherein are setled several points of equity, law, and practice : to which are added learned arguments relating to the antiquity of the said Court, its dignity, power, and jurisdiction : as also the great case between the Dutchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bathe : in two volumes

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The second edition, with large additions,
Date of Publication
1715.
Call Number
Book 522 1716
Book 521 1715
Book 520 1715
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The second edition, with large additions,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq., for J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1715.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
A third part was issued in 1716.
Vol. 1: [4], 288, 88, [28] p.; v. 2: [12], 437, [19] p.
Includes indexes.
Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] in front, p. [27-28] at end; v. 2: p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under two or three struck former owners; signature also on flyleaf.
Books numbers 520, 521, and 522 as assigned by Yeates,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue,
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full-blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 522 1716
Book 521 1715
Book 520 1715
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The attorney's vade mecum, and client's instructor, treating of actions: (such as are now most in use;) of prosecuting and defending them: of the pleadings and law. Also of hue and cry

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Author
Morgan, John
Date of Publication
1792.
Call Number
Book 1004 1792
Book 1005 1792
Responsibility
The subjects arranged in a clear and perspicuous manner ... By John Morgan.
Author
Morgan, John
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by W. Porter, for G. Burnet,
Date of Publication
1792.
Physical Description
3 volumes in 2. 21 cm
Notes
Vol. 3 has title and imprint: The attorney's vade mecum, and client's instructor ... Consisting of precedents, adapted to the preceding work, and arranged according to its order ... Dublin, Printed by W. Porter, for E. Lynch [etc.].
LHO wants vol 2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 1004 and 1005 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Actions and defenses - Great Britain.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Criminal procedure - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Actions and defenses.
Civil procedure.
Criminal procedure.
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1004 1792
Book 1005 1792
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Precedents in the office of a justice of peace : to which is added a short system of conveyancing, in a method entirely new : with an appendix, containing a variety of the most useful forms

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Author
Read, Collinson,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
Responsibility
by Collinson Read, Esquire.
Author
Read, Collinson,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[4], 63, [1], 33, [1] p. : forms ; 20 cm.
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-E⁴ [F]⁴ G-H⁴ ²A-D⁴ ²E²( -E2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 203 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Forms (Law)
Justices of the peace.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
Blank forms.
Three-quarters leather and marbled paper (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21732
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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Journal of the first session of the tenth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-fourth

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1799 [i.e. 1800].
Call Number
Book 20a.1
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey, in King-Street.,
Date of Publication
1799 [i.e. 1800].
Physical Description
439, [1], 59, [1], 18 p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Notes
The session ended March 17, 1800.
Signatures: [A]² B-5S² ²[A]² ²B-P² ³ [A]² ³B-D² ³E1.
Title vignette: state seal.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Richard Smith at top of title page.
Book number 20a.1 as arranged by Yeates.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1799, both days inclusive."--Page 59, [1] p. at end, with separate title page.
"Report of the register-general of the state of Pennsylvania for the year 1799"--18 p. at end, with separate title page.
Evans
Bound in library boards with leather spine.
Subjects
Finance, Public - Pennsylvania.
Finance, Public.
Pennsylvania.
Relief prints - Seals - Pennsylvania - 1800.
Additional Author
Bailey, Francis,
Bailey, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Smith, Richard.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Treasury.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 20a.1
Websites
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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

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Author
Stubbs, W.
Edition
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.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Call Number
Book 938 1766
Responsibility
by W. Stubbs and G. Talmash of Staples-Inn, gentlemen.
Author
Stubbs, W.
Edition
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,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description
[8], 452, [22] p. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A⁴ B-2G⁸ 2H⁴ [I]1.
Includes index.
LC copy has ms. notes on front free endpaper.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 937 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Criminal procedure - England - Early works to 1800.
Criminal law - England - Early works to 1800.
Criminal law.
Criminal procedure.
England.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Talmash, George,
Cotter, Sarah,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 938 1766
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The constitution and ordinances of the city of Philadelphia

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Corporate Author
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date of Publication
MDCCXC. [1790]
Call Number
Book 615 1790
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall & Sellers, in Market between Front and Second-Streets.,
Date of Publication
MDCCXC. [1790]
Physical Description
xxxii, 87, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 615 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Philadelphia (Pa.). - Councils. - Common Council - Rules and practice.
Philadelphia (Pa.). - Mayor.
Philadelphia (Pa.). - Councils. - Common Council.
Ordinances, Municipal - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Municipal corporations - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Municipal corporations.
Ordinances, Municipal.
Politics and government.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Politics and government.
Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Rules.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Hall, David,
Hall, William,
Sellers, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 615 1790
Websites
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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

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Author
Rayner, John
Date of Publication
1764.
Call Number
Book 1019 1764
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Author
Rayner, John
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, and sold by J. Worrall,
Date of Publication
1764.
Physical Description
xiii, 154, xi, [31] pages 21 cm
Notes
Introduction signed: J.R. [i.e. John Rayner].
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 1019 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Holt, John, - Sir, - 1642-1710.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1019 1764
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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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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

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Author
Jacob, Giles,
Edition
The eighth edition, /
Date of Publication
1762
Call Number
Book 776 1762
Responsibility
by Giles Jacob, Gent.
Author
Jacob, Giles,
Edition
The eighth edition, /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by H. Woodfall and W. Strahan for T. Osborne ... [and 24 others],
Date of Publication
1762
Physical Description
[722] p. ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Author statement follows edition statement on title page
Signatures: [A]² a² B-8R² 8S1 8T².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 776 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Dictionaries - Early works to 1800.
Law.
Dictionaries.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Holt, John,
Woodfall, H.
Strahan, William,
Osborne, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 776 1762
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