"Carefully compared with, and corrected by, the original rolls and records ... by ... Lewis [Weiss] and Charles Brockden."
Known as the "big Peter Miller" to distinguish it from the octavo edition.
Appendix has special t.p. and separate paging.
Errata affixed on back of title page.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Contents
I. Containing the charters of the said province, and the city, boroughs and towns thereof; the titles of all the laws of said province, since its first establishment down to the year 1700; the acts of the said Assembly from the year 1700 to 1743, now in force; and the royal confirmations and repeals of the said acts.--II. Containing the acts of Assembly of the said province, from the year 1744 to 1759, now in force; [and An appendix] a collection of all the laws that have been formerly in force within this province, for regulating of descents and transferring the property of lands, but are since expired, altered, or repealed; form the establishment of the province, down to this present time ... Together with an index, referring to the matters contained in both the volumes.
An enquiry into the use and practice of juries among the Greeks and Romans : from whence the origin of the English jury may probably be deduced : in three parts
An historical and political discourse of the laws and government of England : from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with a vindication of the antient way of parliaments in England
Printed by Mark Basket, printer to the King, and by the assigns of Robert Basket, and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
Date of Publication
1769-1800.
Physical Description
18 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Imprint varies.
Originally planned "In Eight Volumes."
Vols. 15-18: "being an eleventh [-fourteenth] volume to Mr. Runnington's edition, and a fifteenth [-eighteenth] to Mr. Ruffhead's, [completing those editions to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland]."
Includes indexes.
LCHS wantin vols 5 and 14.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 626-642 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
v. 1. 1225-1460 -- v. 2. 1461-1601 -- v. 3. 1604-1698 -- v. 4. 1699-1713 -- v. 5. 1714-1729 -- v. 6. 1730-1746 -- v. 7. 1747-1756 -- v. 8. 1757-1762 -- v. 9. 1762-1763 -- v. 10. 1765-1770 -- v. 11. 1771-1773 -- v. 12. 1774-1776 -- v. 13. 1777-1780 -- v. 14. 1781-1785 -- v. 15. 1786-1789 -- v. 16. 1790-1794 -- v. 17. 1795-1798 -- v. 18. 1799-1800.
The commentaries, or Reports of Edmund Plowden ... containing divers cases upon matters of law, argued and adjudged in the several reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary, King and Queen Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth [1548-1579]
Originally written in French, and now faithfully translated into English, and considerably improved by many marginal notes and references to all the books of the common law, both ancient and modern. To which are added, the quaeries of Mr. Plowden, now first rendered into English at large, with references, and many useful observations. In two parts. With two new tables, more compleat than any yet published; the one, of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters ...
Printed by Catharine Lintot, and Samuel Richardson, for the translator,
Date of Publication
1761.
Physical Description
2 parts in 1 volume frontispiece, table 37 cm
Notes
The two parts are paged continuously; immediately following pt. 2 is the case of Basset and Morgan versus Manxel, at Serjeants Inn (15 p.), this case is followed by The quaeries (68 p.) with special t.p.
The frontispiece is engraved and the upper part consists of a portrait within an oval frame bearing the inscription: Edmund Plowden Serjeant at Law T.R. 27 Oct. 5 & 6 P. and M.A.D. 1558; in the lower part is a monument containing the recumbent figure of Plowden; beneath the lower right hand corner of the front.: T. Stayner Sculp.; at foot of the front.: Printed for J. Worrall at the Dove in Bell Yard near Lincoln's Inn.
"His portrait has been engraved by T. Stagner, and his monument by J.T. Smith."--Dict. nat. biog. under Plowden.
Pt. 2 has special title: The second part of The commentaries, or Reports of Edmund Plowden ...
A report of some proceedings on the commission of Oyer and terminer and goal delivery : for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases
The third edition, corrected, with many additional notes and references.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's law-printers for J. Worrall and Co. ... [and 17 others],
Date of Publication
MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description
5 v. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Mainly compiled from the writings of the Chief Baron Gilbert.
"Bacon died before completing his task, and the titles commencing with Simony and ending with Verdict, were added by Sergeant Sayer, and the residue of the titles by Owen Ruffhead"--J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliography.
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law : as also the whole law and practice thereof, under all the heads and titles : together with such informations relating thereto, as explain the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgements, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories published to this time
