A system of pleading : including a translation of the Doctrina Placitandi, or, The art and science of pleading : originally written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at law, and now first translated from the obsolete Norman French : shewing where, in what cases, and by what persons, pleas, as well personal, or mixed, may be properly pleaded, with references to, and extracts from, the most approved writers on the subject, carefully digested under their proper titles, and brought into one collective point of view : together with an introduction, explaining the different terms made use of in the proceedings of each respective court : also a preface and table
Reports of the trials of Colonel Aaron Burr, (late vice president of the United States,) for treason, and for a misdemeanor, in preparing the means of a military expedition against Mexico, a territory of the King of Spain, with whom the United States were at peace. In the Circuit court of the United States, held at the city of Richmond, in the district of Virginia, in the summer term of the year 1807. To which is added, an appendix, containing the arguments and evidence in support and defence of the motion afterwards made by the counsel for the United States, to commit A. Burr, H. Blannerhassett [sic] and I. Smith to be sent for trial to the state of Kentucky, for treason or misdemeanor, alleged to be committed there
The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo
793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Tail-pieces.
"Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]
"Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.
"Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.
"List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.
Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.
Reports of cases in the county courts of the Fifth circuit, and in the High courts of errors & appeals, of the state of Pennsylvania. [1791-1799] And Charges to grand juries of those county courts
Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, from July A.D. 1789 to June A.D. 1793; with a variety of cases anterior to that period. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court
V. 1. June 1789-June 1793 -- v. 2. June 1793-June 1798; being four years and a half, or nine circuits.
Summary
"With a variety of cases anterior to that period [1764-1789]. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court."--T.p.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: : from the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, to the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and four. : Published, under the authority of the legislature, by Thomas M'Kean Thompson. : Vol. VI
Added title page (p. [1]): Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: passed at a session, which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. Published by authority. Octoraro: Printed by Francis Bailey. 1804.
"Secretary's-Office, Lancaster, June 29, 1804. I certify, that ... the laws comprised in this volume, and passed during one session of the legislature, commencing on the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three ... have been collated with and corrected by the original rolls. T.M. Thompson, secretary of the commonwealth."--Title page verso.
"Table of private acts."--Page [iii]-iv, 1st count.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : from the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six, to the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, both days inclusive. : Published under the authority of the legislature, by Thomas M'Kean Thompson. : Vol. VIII
The session laws for 1806 have a separate title page and are also recorded separately at Shaw & Shoemaker 15869: Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, passed at a session, which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday, the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven. And of the independence of the United States of America, the thirty-second. Published by authority.
"This volume comprises the laws and resolutions passed during two sessions of the legislature, from December 2d, 1806, until March 28th, 1808, inclusive.--In printing the acts of the second session, an error ... occurred in the paging. The paging instead of having reference to, and being in continuation of the laws of the first session, begins with number one ... such reference in the index, having an asterisk (*) affixed to it, is intended to direct to a page of the laws passed during the second session."--Preface, p. [i].
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law ; as also the law and practice , under the proper heads and titles: together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time. Adapted to the use of barristers, students and practicers of the law, etc
Printed for James Williams, at No. 5, in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
MDCC:XXIII (1778)
Physical Description
1 volume (no pagination) ; 40 cm.
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Loose inside back cover: an advertisement of J. E. Barr & Co, 27East King Street, Lancaster, Pa. for the Sunday School Department,(60 x 45 cm.) undated.
Laws enacted in the second General Assembly of the representatives of the freemen of the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania : At the sitting which began at Lancaster on the twenty-seventh day of October, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and continued by adjournment to the second day of January, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight
LCHS copy has bound in a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose. and held at Philadelphjia, July 15th 1776: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1777, and 24 pages of handwritten index.
Report of the trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase : one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, before the High Court of Impeachment, composed of the Senate of the United States, for charges exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, in the name of themselves, and of all the people of the United States for high crimes nd misdemeanors, supposed to have been by him committed : with the necessary documents and official papers, from his impeachment to final acquittal
Pages 50-51 omitted in numbering; p. 205-212 repeated; extra numbered p. 101*-112*, 212* (i.e. 213*)-230*, 237*-244*.
"Appendix. Impeachment of the Hon. Samuel Chase, with the articles exhibited against him by the House of Representatives; also his answer and pleas, exhibits, and the replication of the House of Representatives, &c. &c.": 68 p. at end, with separate title page.
Trial January 2-March 1, 1805, for alleged misdemeanors in the political trials of Fries and Callender.--cf. Sabin, Dictionary of books relating to America.
An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: piⶠB⸠D-Fâ´ [G]â´ H-2Mâ´.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States : on the act of the 3d, of April 1792, delivered in February term, 1805, in the case of the lessee of H.I. Huidekoper vs. James Douglass : after argument on questions stated by the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania district of the Third Circuit, for the judgement and decision of the Supreme Court
The history of the life of King Henry the Second, and of the age in which he lived, in five books: to which is prefixed a history of the revolutions of England from the death of Edward the Confessor to the birth of Henry the Second: by George Lord Lyttelton
A brief description of Indian life and Indian trade of the Susquehannock Indians. The tribe which inhabited what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A compilation of pen pictures by the earliest Europeans with whom they came in contact. Also giving a study of the exact location and period of occupation of their villages and fort stes based on the articles found in Indian graves here
The Twenty-eighth division, Pennsylvania's guard in the world war; forewards by the commanding generals. The history of the Keystone or Iron division in the world war. Also the history and traditions of the Pennsylvania national guard and its predecessor the Pennsylvania militia
The Indian chiefs of Pennsylvania, or, A story of the part played by the American Indian in the history of Pennsylvania : based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records, and built around the outstanding chiefs
Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : passed at a session which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States of America, the thirty-third. : Published by authority
Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905
