Laws of the fourteenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the second sitting : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the sixth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States of America, the sixteenth
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighteenth
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.
Register of law publications form Hilary term, 1788, to Easter term, 1790; Trinity term, 1790; Michaelmas, 1790; Hilary, 1791; law books published by W. Clarke and sons (32, 8 p. at end of v. 1)--Register of law publications Easter term, 31. Geo. III; Trinity term, 31. Geo. III.; Michaelmas term, 32. Geo. III., 1791; Hilary term, 32. Geo. III., 1792 (26 p. at end of v. 2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS library wants vol. 2.
Bound with An introductory lecture to a course of law lectures by James Wilson...Philadelphia: T. Dobson, M,DCC
Contents
v. 1. Cases of the commendams before the Privy Council, in 16. Jac. I. Vindication of the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, with the judgment given by King James on occasion of the controversy between Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and Lord Coke. Lord Chief Justice Reeve's instructions to his nephew concerning the study of the law. Sir James Marriott's argument in giving judgment in the Court of Admiralty in the case of the ship Columbus. The Duke of Newcastle's letter to Monsieur Michell, in answer to the Prussian memorial, respecting the capture of vessels and property belonging to neutral powers in time of war. An argument of Lord Bacon, when attorney general, on the writ de rege inconsulto, in the case of the grant of the office of supersedeas in the Common pleas, 13 James I. Case on the validity of equitable recoveries, with the opinions of several eminent counsel thereon. Opinions of several eminent counsel on the case of Lord Clive's jaghire. Lord Hale's preface to Rolle's Abridgment. Case of Perrin and Blake in the King's Bench, with the arguments of the judges therein. Case of the Duchess of Kingston's will made in France, with the opinion of Monsieur Target thereon. Case of Buckworth and Thirkell in K.B. on a case in replevin, reserved at the Assizes for Cambridge, 25 Geo. 3. Case of Willoughby and Willoughby in chancery, on priority of mortgage debts. Reading of the law of uses, by Serjeant Carthew, at New Inn, Michaelmas.
A law grammar : or, An introduction to the theory and practice of English jurisprudence. Containing rudiments and illustrations of 1. the laws of nature, 2. the law of God, 3. the law of nations, 4. the law politic, 5. the civil law, 6. the common law ... 26. a general index
[4], [515]-652, [2], [525]-616. [457]-497, [1], [445]-492 p. ; 17 cm.
Notes
A separate issue of the Notes of Mr. Christian "printed so as to answer [as. v. 5] the quarto, the octavo, and duedicemo editions of Blackstone's Commentaries"--Preface.
Acts passed at the first session of the Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of New-York on Wednesday the fourth of March in the year M, DCC, LXXXIX, and of the independence of the United States, the thirteenth
Vol. 2 has title: Acts passed at the first session of the Second Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, in the year M, DCC, XCI, and of the independence of the United States, the sixteenth.
Each vol. includes all sessions of the respective Congress.
