An abridgment of the first part of my Ld. Coke's Institutes : with some additions explaining many of the difficult cases, and shewing in what points the law has been altered by late resolutions and acts of parliament
First part of the institutes of the laws of England
Edition
The fifth edition, to which is now added a large index in the nature of an analysis of the most general heads.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.), for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description
vi, 501, [99] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Hawkins's abridgment of the commentary of Sir Edward Coke on Littleton from Coke's First part of the institutes of the laws of England. Hawkins omits Coke's reprint of Littleton's Tenures and such parts of Coke as were obsolete when the work was compiled. Cf., J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliog.
Signatures: Aâ´( -A4) B-2C¹².
Publisher's advertisements, "Books sold by T. Osborne in Grays Inn," on final leaf (leaf 2C12).
[2], 39, [1], 64, 47, [1], 47, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
On the conduct of Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the Douglas case, concerning the claim of Archibald Douglas as heir to tailzie to his uncle, Archibald, Duke of Douglas.
Signatures: [A]1 B-2Câ´.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page; signature of original owner removed.
A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads
A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws : down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published ; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By a barrister at law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor
Reports of cases, upon appeals and writs of error, in the High Court of Parliament ; from the year 1701, to the year 1779. With tables, notes and references. By Josiah Brown, Esq. Barrister at law
Cases argued and determined, in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, from the year 1746-7, to 1755. : With tables, notes, and references
3rd ed., carefully corr. from the errors of former impressions,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by C. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1735.
Physical Description
3 volumes in 1 ; 33 cm
Notes
Pt. 2, 2nd edition; pt. 3, 4th edition.
Title of pt. 3: Select cases in the High Court of Chancery, solemnly argued and decreed by the late Lord Chancellor, with the assistance of the judges, with an exact table to the whole ...
Printed by E. And R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for Arthur Bettesworth,
Date of Publication
1733.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 598 (i. e. 588), [40] pages 31 cm
Notes
Paging irregular; p. 357-366 omitted in numbering.
Issued anonymously; notes of cases to 1708 ascribed by Lord Hardwicke to Mr. Pooley, and from that period to Mr. Robins; in 1786 the work was edited by Thomas Finch. cf. Marvin, Legal bibl.; Wallace, The reporters; Bridgman, Legal bibl.; Viner, Abridgment.
Includes index.
Hand-written marginalia.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 703 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate of William Whitebread pasted on inside front cover.
A report of all the cases determined by Sir John Holt, knt. from 1688 to 1710, during which time he was Lord Chief Justice of England : containing many cases never before printed, taken from an original manuscript of Thomas Farresley ... also several cases in Chancery and the Exchequer-Chamber
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Hazard, T. Osborne, J. Wortall, C. Corbett, C. Ward, and R. Chandler, J. Wood, C. Waller, and G. Hawkins,
Date of Publication
1738.
Physical Description
[2], iii, [16], [90] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
"Cases determined by Sir John Holt. K.B., Ch., Ex. Mainly collected from the printed Reports, with additional cases from the manuscript of Thomas Farresley. "The whole alphabetically digested under proper heads," like an Abridgment. Said to have been edited by Giles Jacob."--The lawyer's reference manual of law books and citations, by Charles C. Soule, 1953.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page over that of E. Biddle.
Book number 717 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten note at bottom of title page concerning Giles Jacob, author of the Law Dictionary "is reputed to be the collector or at least the Publisher of these Reports. (Vide Preface to Chief Justice's Holt's Life, vol IV)
The reports of Sir Henry Yelverton, knight and baronet ... of divers special cases in the Court of King's Bench, as well in the latter end of the reign of Q. Elizabeth, as in the first ten years of K. James. [1602-1613]
With two tables; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters. Publish'd originally in French by Sir William Wylde, knight and baronet ... Now carefully translated, with the addition of many thousand references.
