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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

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Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 587 1777
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Articles of Confederation
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
26 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeaates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwrittne Index precedes text.
Evans
Subjects
United States. - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Paper bindings (Binding)
Stabbing (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Catchwords (Printing)
Printers' devices (Publishing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Autographs (Provenance)
Early works.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1777
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Lectures on the constitution and laws of England : with a commentary on Magna Charta and illustrations of many of the English statutes

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Author
Sullivan, Francis Stoughton,
Edition
The second edition, to which authorities are added, and a discourse is prefixed concerning the laws and government of England /
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Call Number
Book 648 1776
Alternate Title
Lectures on the laws of England
Historical treatise on the feudal law and the constitution and laws of England
Responsibility
by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, LL. D. ...
Author
Sullivan, Francis Stoughton,
Edition
The second edition, to which authorities are added, and a discourse is prefixed concerning the laws and government of England /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry and Joseph Johnson in St. Paul's Church-yard,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description
xvi, xxxii, 415, [1] p. ; 27 cm (4to)
Notes
Signatures: a-b⁴ ²a-d⁴ A-3F⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 648 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Feudal law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - Great Britain.
Constitutional history.
Feudal law.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Stuart, Gilbert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 648 1776
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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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Tracts, chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England By William Blackstone

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Author
Blackstone, William,
Edition
The third edition.
Date of Publication
1771.
Call Number
Book 647 1771
Author
Blackstone, William,
Edition
The third edition.
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Press,
Date of Publication
1771.
Physical Description
[4], 353, [3], lxxx, [20] pages, plate ; 4to
Notes
Drop-head title, p[iii]: 'Preface to the sixth edition, M. DCC. LXXI'.
Includes: 'An analysis of the laws of England', 'An essay on collateral consanguinity', 'Considerations on copyholders', 'Observations on the Oxford press' and 'The Great Charter, and charter of the forest, . To which is prefixed an introductory discourse. The charters themselves have a separate (Roman) pagination sequence, though the introduction to them continues the main sequence.
With an index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 647 as asssigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Inheritance and succession - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Inheritance and succession.
Law.
Great Britain.
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 647 1771
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A system of pleading : including a translation of the Doctrina Placitandi, or, The art and science of pleading : originally written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at law, and now first translated from the obsolete Norman French : shewing where, in what cases, and by what persons, pleas, as well personal, or mixed, may be properly pleaded, with references to, and extracts from, the most approved writers on the subject, carefully digested under their proper titles, and brought into one collective point of view : together with an introduction, explaining the different terms made use of in the proceedings of each respective court : also a preface and table

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Author
Eure, Samson,
Date of Publication
1771.
Call Number
Book 649 1771
Alternate Title
Art and science of pleading
Doctrina Placitandi
Responsibility
by a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Author
Eure, Samson,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall,
Date of Publication
1771.
Physical Description
xxii, [14], vii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 649 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
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 649 1771
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The common and statute law of England concerning trials in high-treason, misprision of treason, and in all other crimes and offences relating to the Crown : briefly collected out of the common and statute law-books and trials relating to that subject, alphabetically digested under proper titles, wherein the learning of appeals is at large set forth under the same head : the whole is brought down to the present year 1710, with an exact table

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Author
W. J.
Date of Publication
1710.
Call Number
Book 436 1710
Responsibility
by W.J., Barrister at law.
Author
W. J.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq. for John Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1710.
Physical Description
[8], 405, [27] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes
"Very useful for all barristers, attorneys, justices of peace, and for all others that have, or may have occasion to be concern'd in such matters."
Signatures: A⁴ B-2E⁸.
Bookseller's advertisements: p. [23-27] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 436 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Criminal law - England - Early works to 1800.
Criminal procedure - England - Early works to 1800.
Criminal law.
Criminal procedure.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Damaged gilt title on maroon spine label (Binging)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 436 1710
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An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters

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Date of Publication
1772.
Call Number
Book 950 1772
Place of Publication
America
Publisher
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: pi⁶ B⁸ D-F⁴ [G]⁴ H-2M⁴.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Parliament - Elections.
Great Britain. - Parliament.
Dissenters, Religious - England - Early works to 1800.
Law - Great Britain.
Dissenters, Religious.
Elections.
Law.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Prospectuses - Great Britain - 18th century.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foster, Michael,
Mansfield, William Murray,
Blackstone, William,
Furneaux, Philip,
Priestley, Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of the law.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 950 1772
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Praxis almae curiae cancellariae : in two volumes : being a collection of precedents, by bill and answer, plea and demurrer, in causes of the greatest moment (wherein equity hath been allowed) which have been commenced in the High Court of Chancery, for more than 30 years last past : with appeals (in several cases of great difficulty) to the House of Peers in Parliament, and the proceedings thereupon : also, a compleat collection of all the writs and process concerning the same, together with a praeliminary discourse, by way of rules, succinctly and methodically drawn up, containing the practice of the said court, in every particular branch of the equitable part thereof

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Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The third edition, with additions.
Date of Publication
1714.
Call Number
Book 519 1714
Book 518 1714
Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The third edition, with additions.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq. for Abel Roper, and Samuel Butler ...,
Date of Publication
1714.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
"By William Brown"--T.p. of v. 2.
Sometimes attributed to Sir Robert Heath. Cf. Halkett & Laing.
Vol. 1: [8], 576 p.; v. 2: [8], 103, [1]; 176; 401-720, [40] p.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 518 and 519 as assigned by Yeates.
Signature of B. Crosby on flyleaf struck.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue,
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain.
Early works.
Vol 1: linen boards (Binding)
Vol 2: Full blind-tooled leather(Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Heath, Robert,
Bay, Elihu Hall,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 519 1714
Book 518 1714
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The practick part of the law: shewing the office of an attorney, and a guide for solicitors in all the courts of Westminster: ... As also, the practice of the courts in the city of London ... With the exact table of fees of all the said courts ... with the abstract of the Parchment and Paper-Act

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Edition
The fourth edition, with large additions by several practisers of the several courts, and brought down to the year 1711. With a new and exact table to the whole.
Date of Publication
1711.
Call Number
Book 431 1711
Edition
The fourth edition, with large additions by several practisers of the several courts, and brought down to the year 1711. With a new and exact table to the whole.
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
In the Savoy: printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1711.
Physical Description
[8], 599, [25]; [2], 16; [8], 120 pages ; 8vo
Notes
Originally published with the title 'The practick part of the law shewing the office of a compleat attorney . composed and collected by G.T. of Staples-Inne, and T.P. of Barnards-Inne', London, 1652, which itself was based on 'The attourney of the Court of Common Pleas. . Written by G.T. of Staples Inne', London, 1642.
Running title: 'The compleat attorney and solicitor.' - 'An abstract of the act' and 'An exact table of fees' have separate title pages, pagination, and registers; 'An abstract' has imprint: printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Tho. Newcomb: and sold by J. Walthoe, 1702; 'An exact table' is "The fifth edition, with additions."
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 431 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Courts - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Courts.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Nutt, John,
Walthoe, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 431 1711
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Laws enacted in the third General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which met at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independence of the United States of America

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1778.
Call Number
Book 584 1778b
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1778 Oct.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Dunlap,
Date of Publication
1778.
Physical Description
p. [2], [167]-177, [1] ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Pagination continues session laws from Nov. 1776 (Evans 15539).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 584 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
LCHS copy has bound in a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose. and held at Philadelphjia, July 15th 1776: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1777, and 24 pages of handwritten index.
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
Decorated boards with stamped title (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 584 1778b
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