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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1811.
Call Number
Bookk 306 1811
Responsibility
By John Purdon, Junr.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
Last page blank.
"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
"Index."--p. [587]-637.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 306 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.
Annotations and citations (Law) - Pennsylvania.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutions - Pennsylvania.
Annotations and citations (Law)
Constitutions.
Law.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled leather (Binding)
Fillet tools (Binding)
Lettering pieces (Binding)
Gold tooled leather (Binding)
Digests.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Purdon, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.
United States.
Pennsylvania.
Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co.,
Fry and Kammerer,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 306 1811
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Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred, to the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. : Republished, under the authority of the legislature. : With notes and references. : In four volumes. Vol. I[-V]

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1810[-1812].
Call Number
Book 307 1810
Book 306 1810
Book 310 1812
Book 309 1810
Book 308 1810
Book 311 1812
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Compiled statutes : 1810)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and published by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street.,
Date of Publication
1810[-1812].
Physical Description
5 v. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Title of v. 4-5 varies: Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred. Republished, under the authority of the legislature. With notes and references. Vol. IV[-V].
"The Governor be, and he hereby is authorized and required to receive proposals, and contract with John Bioren, for thirteen hundred and fifty copies of his proposed edition of the Acts of Assembly of this commonwealth, to the end of the present session of the legislature, to be printed correctly on good paper, with entirely new small pica type, in four volumes royal octavo, of six hundred pages, each well bound and lettered, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per volume ... approved--the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten. Simon Snyder."--V. 1, p. [iii].
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... John Bioren is hereby authorized to close the fourth volume of the new edition of the laws with the laws of the session of one thousand eight hundred and seven-eight; and that all the laws subsequently passed, and which may be passed during the present session, shall be published and included in a fifth volume ... approved--the seventeeth [sic] day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Simon Snyder."--V. 4, verso of title page.
Vol. 5 has imprint date: 1812.
Vol. 1: lix, [1], 560 p.; v. 2: xxvi, 622 p.; v. 3: xliv, 556 p.; v. 4: xix, [1], 563, [1] p.; v. 5: xxxi, [5], 445, [1], 393, [1] p. Last p. of v. 4-5 blank.
Error in paging: v. 3, p. xxxvii misnumbered xxxvi.
"General index to the laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes. From the year 1700, to the thirty-first of March, 1812, inclusive. Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, no. 88 Chesnut-street. 1812"--V. 5, 393 p., 3rd count. Also recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 26410.
Shaw & Shoemaker records v. 1-4 as entry 21026, and the complete set as entry 26414.
With a separate index to each of v. 1-4.
"Constitution of the United States of America."--V. 3, p. [xxvi]-xxxv.
"Constitution of the state of Pennsylvania."--V. 3, p. [xxxvi]-xliv.
"Certificate, notes, & extracts, by the secretary of the land-office."--V. 5, p. [x]-xxxi.
"Errata."--V. 5, p. [xxxiii-xxxvi].
"Appendix."--V. 5, p. [397]-445, 2nd count.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 306 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutions - Pennsylvania.
Constitutions.
Law.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
General index three-quarter leather with mabled paper covers (Binding)
Ornate types (Type evidence)
Annotations (Provenance)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Bioren, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Title
General index to the laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes. From the year 1700, to the thirty-first of March, 1812, inclusive.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 307 1810
Book 306 1810
Book 310 1812
Book 309 1810
Book 308 1810
Book 311 1812
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Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original

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Author
Brackenridge, H. H.
Date of Publication
1814.
Call Number
Book 264 1814
Responsibility
by Hugh Henry Brackenridge.
Author
Brackenridge, H. H.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
P. Byrne,
Date of Publication
1814.
Physical Description
579 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 264 as assigned by Yeates.
Memorandum as to errata of this publication on back of page 579.
Subjects
Blackstone, William, - 1723-1780.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law - Great Britain.
Law.
Great Britain.
Pennsylvania.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Smith, Charles,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 264 1814
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A treatise on the law of evidence

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Author
Phillipps, S. M.
Edition
1st American, from the 2nd London ed. /
Date of Publication
1816
Call Number
Book 280b 1816
Book 280a 1816
Alternate Title
Phillipps' evidence
Responsibility
by S.M. Phillipps ; to which is added, the theory of presumptive proof, &c.
Author
Phillipps, S. M.
Edition
1st American, from the 2nd London ed. /
Place of Publication
New York : Albany
Publisher
Gould, Banks & Gould ; W. Gould & Co.,
Date of Publication
1816
Physical Description
xl, 520, 106 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Paging irregular following the starred paging of earlier edition, inset in the margin of the text.
Bound in 2 volumes with separate title pages.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 280a and 280b as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Evidence, Circumstantial.
Evidence (Law) - Great Britain.
Evidence (Law) - United States.
Evidence (Law)
Great Britain.
United States.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Blinding)
Additional Author
Dunlap, John A.,
Phillipps, S. M.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 280b 1816
Book 280a 1816
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A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c

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Author
Cowell, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Call Number
Book 793 1727
Alternate Title
Interpreter of words and terms
Author
Cowell, John,
Uniform Title
Interpreter
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe ... [and 10 others],
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description
[488] p. ; 33 cm. (folio)
Notes
Originally issued with title: The interpreter, or, Booke containing the signification of words. Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607.
Signatures: A⁶ B-Z⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 3A-3N⁴ 3O-3Q².
The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
"Books lately printed": p. [488], 3Q2v.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 793 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC (RLIN)
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Dictionaries.
Names, Geographical - Great Britain.
Law.
Names, Geographical.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries.
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 793 1727
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Readings upon the statute law, alphabetically digested : wherein the most obscure and difficult points are clear'd up and illustrated by resolutions and adjudg'd cases, taken from the best authorities extant

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Author
Gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Date of Publication
MDCCXXIII-MDCCXXV [1723-1725]
Call Number
Book 890 1723
Book 891 1723
Book 892 1724
Book 893 1724
Responsibility
by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple.
Author
Gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, and are to be sold by D. Browne, T. Osborn, W. Mears, and F. Clay,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXIII-MDCCXXV [1723-1725]
Physical Description
5 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 1: [2], 353, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 370 p.; v. 3: [2], 361, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 367, [1] p.; v. 5: 208, [136] p., [1] folded leaf of plates (a letterpress table.)
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbbers890-893 as asssigned by Yeates.
LCHS lacks vol. 5.
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Digests.
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Digests.
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 890 1723
Book 891 1723
Book 892 1724
Book 893 1724
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The reports of Sir Edward Coke Kt. In English : compleat in thirteen parts, with references to all the antient and modern books of the law. Exactly translated and compared with the first and last edition in French, and printed page for page with the same. To which are now added the pleadings to the cases

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXVII. [1727]
Call Number
Book 895 1727
Book 896 1727
Book 897 1727
Book 898 1727
Book 899 1727
Book 900 1727
Book 901 1717
Alternate Title
Certain select cases in law
First part of the reports of Sir Edward Coke
General table to the first eleven books of the Reports of ... Sir Edward Coke
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Uniform Title
Reports.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Sayer Esq;) for D. Browne : J. Walthoe : B. Lintot : R. Gosling : W. Mears : L. Ward. : W. Innys : J. Osborn : T. Woodward : F. Clay : L. Wotton : K. Williamson and A. Ward.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXVII. [1727]
Physical Description
13 pt. in 7 v. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Each part has sep. paging, register & t.p. (beginning "The first [-twelfth] part of the Reports ... "; "The thirteenth part, or certain select cases in law ... "); general t.p. in v. 1 only. -- Imprints vary slightly (see ESTC) -- Parts 12,13 are "The third edition corrected, with the addition of references."
Prefaces (pts.1-11) in Latin & English in parallel columns. "To the reader" (pt. 13) subscribed "J.G."--In pt. 12, "I have perused this treatise ... and ... conceive ... that the printing ... will be for the good of the nation ... [subscribed] The second of February 1655. Edw. Bulstrod."--"An account of the authors referred to in these reports": pt. 1, A6v-A8v. -- "A general table to the first eleven books of The reports of ... Sir Edward Coke ... with two alphabetical catalogues, one of the principal cases; the other of all the general titles ..." bd. at end of pt. 11.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 895-901 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Coke, Edward,
Bulstrode, Edward,
G., J.
Nutt, Edward,
Nutt, Richard,
Gosling, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 895 1727
Book 896 1727
Book 897 1727
Book 898 1727
Book 899 1727
Book 900 1727
Book 901 1717
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A general abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole. With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, of the matter under general heads

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Author
D'Anvers, Knightley,
Edition
The second edition, corrected.
Date of Publication
1725.
Call Number
Book 773 1725
Book 774 1725
Book 117 1737
Responsibility
by Knightley d'Anvers, of the Inner Temple, Esq.
Author
D'Anvers, Knightley,
Edition
The second edition, corrected.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer Esq); for J. Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters,
Date of Publication
1725.
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 31 cm
Notes
Title page of vol. 2 is dated 1722, title page of vol. 3 is dated 1737.
Unpaginated.
Vol. 1: Actions - Common. Vol. 2: Condition - Error. Vol. 3: Escape - Extinguishment.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 773-775 as assigned by Yeates.
Reference (vol. 3): ESTC
Reference (vols. 1-2): ESTC
Subjects
Common law - England - Early works to 1800.
Law - Early works to 1800.
Law - England - Digests - Early works to 1800.
Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Common law.
Law.
England.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries.
Digests.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindingh)
Additional Author
Gosling, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper
Nutt, Elizabeth,
Nutt, Richard,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 773 1725
Book 774 1725
Book 117 1737
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The infants lawyer : or, The law (ancient and modern) relating to infants. Setting forth their priviledges ; their several ages for divers purposes ; guardians and procheim amy, as to suits and defences by them ; actions brought by and against them, with the manner of declarations and pleadings ; fines and recoveries, and other matters of record suffered or acknowledged by them, how reversable ; conveyances and specialties, how bound by them or not ; contracts, promises, &c

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Edition
3rd ed. :
Date of Publication
1726.
Call Number
Book 883 1726
Alternate Title
Law (ancient and modern) relating to infants
Responsibility
With an appendix of the forms of declarations and pleadings concerning infants.
Edition
3rd ed. :
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns Edw. Sayer, for James Crokatt,
Date of Publication
1726.
Physical Description
[24], 380, [28] pages ; 20 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 883 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Children - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Children
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bingind)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 883 1726
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench : with tables of the names of the cases and principal matters

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1802-[1816?]
Call Number
Book 957 1802
Book 958 1803
Book 959 1804
Book 960 1805
Book 961 1806
Book 962 1806
Book 963 1807
Book 964 1808
Book 965 1809
Book 966 1810
Book 967 1811
Book 968 1811
Book 969 1812
Book 970 1813
Book 971 1814
Book 972 1816
Responsibility
by Edward Hyde East.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed & sold by P. Byrne,
Date of Publication
1802-[1816?]
Physical Description
16 volumes ; 23 cm
Notes
Vol. 3 has imprint: Philadelphia : Printed for Byrne & Hudson.
Vol 15 has imprint: New York : Published by I. Riley.
Vol 16 has imprint: London, Printed: New York, Reprinted and published by I .Riley.
Covers cases argued between 1800 and 1812.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 957-972 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full leather and full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
East, Edward Hyde,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 957 1802
Book 958 1803
Book 959 1804
Book 960 1805
Book 961 1806
Book 962 1806
Book 963 1807
Book 964 1808
Book 965 1809
Book 966 1810
Book 967 1811
Book 968 1811
Book 969 1812
Book 970 1813
Book 971 1814
Book 972 1816
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