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
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: piⶠB⸠D-Fâ´ [G]â´ H-2Mâ´.
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.
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
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.].
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. publish'd in his life-time : together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England, first publish'd by the present Lord Bishop of Lincoln in the year 1695 : together with the life of the author
now revised by His Lordship ; to which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henry Spelman, never before printed, one, of the admiral-jurisdiction and the officers thereof, the other of antient deeds and charters ; with a compleat index to the whole.
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
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 /
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."
"Several of the cases are by mistake not placed in chronological order."--Preface.
"The cases in Ambler run from 1716. The earliest case (p. 581) is in that year. One (p. 520) is in 1725, one (p. 582) in 1731. The latest (p. 776) is in 1783"--J.W. Wallace, The reporters. 4th ed. 1882.
The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney General against John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Commons : tried in the Court of King's-Bench Westminister, on Wednesday, the ninth of December 1789 : before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice of England
"Argument in support of the rights of juries" by the Hon. T. Erskine: p. [121]-228.
Publisher's advertisements: [16] p. at end.
LC copy wanting the [16] p. of advertisements called for in ESTC.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS copy has bound between pages121 and 122: The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury, on Friday, August the Sixth, 1784...London: H. Goldney, 1874.
With: Briton. Four letters on the subject of Mr. Stockdale's trial for a supposed libel on the House of Commons ... London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1790. Bound together subsequent to publication?
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.
Register of law publications form Hilary term, 1788, to Easter term, 1790; Trinity term, 1790; Michaelmas, 1790; Hilary, 1791; law books published by W. Clarke and sons (32, 8 p. at end of v. 1)--Register of law publications Easter term, 31. Geo. III; Trinity term, 31. Geo. III.; Michaelmas term, 32. Geo. III., 1791; Hilary term, 32. Geo. III., 1792 (26 p. at end of v. 2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS library wants vol. 2.
Bound with An introductory lecture to a course of law lectures by James Wilson...Philadelphia: T. Dobson, M,DCC
Contents
v. 1. Cases of the commendams before the Privy Council, in 16. Jac. I. Vindication of the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, with the judgment given by King James on occasion of the controversy between Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and Lord Coke. Lord Chief Justice Reeve's instructions to his nephew concerning the study of the law. Sir James Marriott's argument in giving judgment in the Court of Admiralty in the case of the ship Columbus. The Duke of Newcastle's letter to Monsieur Michell, in answer to the Prussian memorial, respecting the capture of vessels and property belonging to neutral powers in time of war. An argument of Lord Bacon, when attorney general, on the writ de rege inconsulto, in the case of the grant of the office of supersedeas in the Common pleas, 13 James I. Case on the validity of equitable recoveries, with the opinions of several eminent counsel thereon. Opinions of several eminent counsel on the case of Lord Clive's jaghire. Lord Hale's preface to Rolle's Abridgment. Case of Perrin and Blake in the King's Bench, with the arguments of the judges therein. Case of the Duchess of Kingston's will made in France, with the opinion of Monsieur Target thereon. Case of Buckworth and Thirkell in K.B. on a case in replevin, reserved at the Assizes for Cambridge, 25 Geo. 3. Case of Willoughby and Willoughby in chancery, on priority of mortgage debts. Reading of the law of uses, by Serjeant Carthew, at New Inn, Michaelmas.
The nature and extent of the business in the Office of Pleas in Lincoln's-Inn: both ancient and modern: with the rules and methods of practice, precedents, reports of cases, and other matters in use there ... In two volumes
