A treatise on the law of insurance, in four books; I. Of marine insurances, II. Of bottomry and respondentia, III. Of insurance upon lives, IV. Of insurance against fire
A new institute of the imperial or civil law With notes, shewing in some principal cases amongst other observation, how the canon law, the laws of England, and the laws and customs of other nations differ from it. In four books
An essay on privateers, captures and particularly on recaptures : according to the laws, treaties, and usages of the maritime powers of Europe : briefly stated according to the modern law of the nations of Europe ... The rights and duties of neutrality
A treatise on the construction of the statues, 13 Eliz. c. 5, and 27 Eliz. c. 4 : relating to voluntary and fraudulent conveyances, and on the nature and force of different considerations of support deeds and other legal instruments, in the courts of law and equity
by Richard Peters, comprising also some decisions in the same court, by the late Francis Hopkinson, to which are added cases determined in other districts of the United States. With an appendix containing --The laws of Oleron.--The laws of Wisbuy.--The laws of the Hanse towns.--The Marine ordinances of Louis XIV.--A treatise on the rights and duties of owners, freighters, and masters of ships, and of mariners: and the laws of the United States relative to mariners.
Published by William P. Farrand; Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Preface signed: Richard Peters, Jun.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
On verso of front flyleaf: "Affectionely presented to Judge Yeates - by his old & Sincere] Friend, Classmate, and Fellow Student, Richard Peters, Aug. 1807."
Blackstone's Commentaries : with notes of reference, to the Constitution and laws, of the federal government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia : in five volumes, with an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view of the laws of Virginia, as a member of the federal union
Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small ... Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1803.
Physical Description
5 v. : geneal. tables (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
"This edition by 'St. George Tucker ... ' follows the text of the ninth edition, London, 1783. It contains a selection of Christian's notes, marked with his name"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938.
Pagination of the Commentaries is that of another edition.
Signatures: v. 1: [A]â´ B-4Gâ´; v. 2: [A]â´ B-4Fâ´ (4F4 blank); v. 3: pi² A-5Aâ´ 5B1, IV leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 4: pi² A-4Lâ´ [4M]1; v. 5: pi² A-4Gâ´ 5A-5Fâ´ 5G².
Errata: v. 1, leaf 4G4; v. 4, leaf [4M]1.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 350, 351, 352, 353, 354 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cohen, M.L. Bibliography of Early American law,
Eller, C.S. William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
Sistema universale dei principi di diritto marittimo.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by George Forman ... for I. Riley & Co.,
Date of Publication
1806.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Revision of a work originally published in Italian under title: Sistema universale dei principii del diritto marittimo dell'Europa.
Vol. 1: xxxii, 424 p.; v. 2: viii, 430, [2] p.
Errata: v. 2, p. [1] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 809-810 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
Shaw, R. American bibliography,
Contents
V. 1. Of the empire of the sea -- Of the territorial sea -- Of the effects of the empire of the territorial sea -- Of the origin and progress of maritime law -- v. 2. Of the rights of belligerent and neutral nations -- Of the freedom of maritime commerce in time of war -- Of the collision between the rights of belligerents and neutrals -- Of the rights of belligerents on the sea and their consequences -- Of various other rights which may be excerised on the sea.
Vol. 2-4 have title: Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the several courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania, held at the seat of the federal government.
Also known as: U.S. reports.
Imprint varies.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 368b, 369, 270, and 371 as assigned by Yeates.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and Exchequer Chamber, and in the House of Lords: from Easter term 36 Geo. III. 1796, to [Hilary term 44 Geo. III. 1804] ... both inclusive. With tables of the cases and principal matters
Vol 1 has imprint: Dublin, Printed by J. Moore, No. 45 College-Green, 1800.
Vol. 3 has imprint: Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, no. 182, Market Street. 1805.
"The cases ... begin with 1797; but at the end of vol. 1 there are cases in 1796, from notes taken by Mr. A. Moore. In the folio edition (1800) these seem to have been sometimes bound separately, and to have been cited as A. Moore's reports."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 987, 988, and 989 as assigned by Yeates.
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
Vol 4 published under title The American Law Journal, vol.IV being the first of a new series, Philadelphia, published by Moses Thomas, Sergeant Hall, printer, 1813.
Vol 5 published under title The American Law Journal vol V being the second of a new serices, Baltimore, published by Edward J. Coale, et al, printed by William Fry, 1814.
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.
