Praxis almae curiae cancellariae : in two volumes : being a collection of precedents, by bill and answer, plea and demurrer, in causes of the greatest moment (wherein equity hath been allowed) which have been commenced in the High Court of Chancery, for more than 30 years last past : with appeals (in several cases of great difficulty) to the House of Peers in Parliament, and the proceedings thereupon : also, a compleat collection of all the writs and process concerning the same, together with a praeliminary discourse, by way of rules, succinctly and methodically drawn up, containing the practice of the said court, in every particular branch of the equitable part thereof
Reports of cases taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the reigns of King Charles I., Charles II., and James II. : being special cases and most of them decreed with the assistance of the judges, and all of them referring to the register books : wherein are setled several points of equity, law, and practice : to which are added learned arguments relating to the antiquity of the said Court, its dignity, power, and jurisdiction : as also the great case between the Dutchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bathe : in two volumes
Together with divers decrees in the High Court of Chancery. Upon limitations of trusts of terms for years. The whole printed from the authors original manuscript. Revised and corrected with his own hand. And published with the allowance and approbation of the lord keeper, and all the judges.
Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme
Reports and pleadings of cases in assise, for offices, nusances, lands and tenements : shewing the manner of porceeding in assises of novel disseisin ... : With observations on every case ... : To which are added, writs of assise, &c
A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries
Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.
Edition
The 5th ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,
"To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index)
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].
Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.
Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq ; Thomas Bever, at the Hand and Star within Temple Bar.,
Date of Publication
1706-1715.
Physical Description
5 volumes in 6 ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Mixed set: v.1, 6h ed., 1721; v.2, 4th ed., 1715; v.3, 3d ed., 1713; v.4, 2nd ed., 1717; v.5:1, [1st] ed., 1713; v.5:2, [1st] ed., 1713; v.6 ("Sixth part" also called "Vol. VII"), [1st] ed., 1714. -- Imprint taken from v.1; publisher varies.
Subtitle varies: v.1: Directing clerks both in the court of Queen's-Bench and Common-Pleas: in the abbreviation and contraction of words ... in the filling up and suing out writs of first process, in drawing declarations, making up issues, ingrossing records, entring[sic] judgments, and suing out executions: also pleas and demurrers, &c. ... ; v.2: Being a collection of choice and usual precedents for declarations in the King's-Bench and Common Pleas ... ; v.3: Being a collection of choice and useful precedents for pleadings ... ; vols.4-5: Being a continuance of bars ("barrs" v.4) and other pleadings ....
On t-ps of v.3-5: by R.G., a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; in v.1, "To the reader" subscribed: R.G.; on t.p. v.2: By the author of the first part.
2 volumes frontispiece (volumes 2, portrait) 32 cm
Notes
Title varies: v. 2: The second part of the Reports of cases and special arguments, argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench ... By Sir Bartholomew Shower.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 572 and 573 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[pt. 1] Cases adjudg'd in ... in the reign of King William III.--pt. 2. Beginning in Easter term the thirtieth of King Charles the Second, and ending in Easter term the third of King James the Second.
Les reports de Sr. Creswell Levinz, : jades un del justices del Common Bank, en trois parts: commencant en le 12 an de Roy Charles II. & fini en le 8 an de son Majesty William III
Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins esq; for S. Keble ... D. Browne ... T. Benskin ... and J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1702.
Physical Description
3 v. : port. ; 31 cm. (fol in 4s)
Notes
Parts 2-3 have special t.p.s. Parts I and II contain King's Bench cases (12 Car. II-31 Car. II); pt. III, cases in the Court of Common Pleas (33 Car. II-8 Will. III).
