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
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
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,
The English pleader : being a select collection of various precedents of declarations of actions brought in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, in case, debt, covenant, trespass and assault, ejectment, replevin, prohibition, &c. : taken from the Rolls of the treasury of the said courts, and forms settled by counsel and special pleaders, since the commencement of the act of Parliament for the laws being in the English language, and is the only book approv'd of for authentick precedents : to which are added, the forms of pleas and issues both general and special, with replications thereto, and also judgments in both courts on the several actions, and likewise forms and precedents of recoveries and concords of fines with a method of suffering and passing the same
A treatise on the statute of frauds, as it regards declarations in trust, contracts, surrenders, conveyances, and the execution and proof of wills and codicils. To which is prefixed a systematic dissertation upon the admissibility of parol and extrinsic evidence, to explain and controul written instruments
Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases, argued and determined in the Provincial court and Court of appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799] ... Selected from the records of the state, and from notes of some of the most eminent counsel who practised law within that period
Printed and published by I. Riley. For sale by Coale & Thomas, Baltimore; Seymour & Williams, Savannah
Date of Publication
1809-18.
Physical Description
4 volumes 24 cm
Notes
Vols. 2-4 have title: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the General court and Court of appeals of the state of Maryland ...
Imprint varies: v. 2 New York: Printed by C. Wiley, no. 28 Provost street. 1812.--v. 3. New York: Published by I. Riley, no. 55 Pine-street. 1813.--v. 4. Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, printer to the state. 1818.
Library lacks volume 4.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 356, 357 and 358 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[I] From the year 1700 (i.e. 1658) down to the American revolution.--[II] From May, 1780, to May, 1790.--III. From October, 1790, to May, 1797.--IV. From May, 1797, to the end of 1799. With an appendix of cases argued and determined in the late Provincial court.
Includes index of cases cited (p. [xiv]-xvi), general index, and list of subscribers (p. [1-4] at end).
Advertisements on p. [5-6] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 931 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
(from t. p.) I. Of the owners of merchant ships -- II. Of the persons employed in the navigation thereof -- III. Of the carriage of goods therein -- IV. Of the wages of merchant seamen.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench, together with some cases, in the High Court of Chancery, in Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter, and Trinity terms, being the whole of the ... year of the reign of George III. ... : with tables of the names of the cases and of the principal matters
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).
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.
New reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and other courts, from Easter term, 44 Geo. III. 1804, [to Trinity term, 47 Geo. III. 1807 ...] both inclusive. With tables of cases and principal matters
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 attorney's practice in the Court of King's Bench : or, An introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that court, as it now stands under the regulation of several late acts of Parliament, rules and determinations of the said court : with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, settled or drawn by counsel ; and a complete index to the whole
