Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace
Responsibility
compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.
The accomplish'd practiser in the High Court of Chancery : shewing the whole method of proceedings, according to the present practice, from the bill to the appeal inclusive
7th ed., (being a new one) upon a plan different from that pursued in the former editions of this work with all the practice enlarged under every head, and an addition of precedents of all kinds; the proceedings upon a commission of lunacy; with additional notes and references to the ancient and modern reports in equity /
7th ed., (being a new one) upon a plan different from that pursued in the former editions of this work with all the practice enlarged under every head, and an addition of precedents of all kinds; the proceedings upon a commission of lunacy; with additional notes and references to the ancient and modern reports in equity /
Place of Publication
London : for T. Whieldon ; and R. Pheney
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall ;
Date of Publication
1790.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 22 cm
Notes
"Containing the original power and jurisdiction of the Chancery, both as a court of law and equity; the Office of the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, and the rest of the officers; also, the best forms and precedents of bills, answers, pleas, demurrers, writs, commissions, interrogatories, affidavits, petitions, and orders: together with a list of the officers and their fees: likewise other matters useful for practisers."
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred to the [twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one]
Volume 1 dated 1797; v. 2 dated 1798 (some copies misdated 1793); v. 3 dated 1795; v. 4 dated 1801.
Imprint of v. 4 reads: Lancaster: Printed by Francis Bailey, Centre-Square, 1801.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 574a, 574b, 575a, 575b, 576, and 577.
At top of title page of vol 2, copy 2: For the use of the Board of Commissioners, Lancaster County."
Evans,
Contents
I. October 14, 1700-October 1, 1781. 1797 -- II. October 2, 1781-October 2,1790. 1793 -- III. December 7, 1790-April 20, 1795. 1795 -- IV. December 1, 1795-February 27, 1801. 1801.
An explanation of the practice of law : containing the elements of special pleading, reduced to the comprehension of every one; also, elements of a plan for a reform: shewing that the plaintiff's costs in a common action, which at present amount to from 25 to 35-1. need not exceed 10-1. and those of the defendant, which are now from 12 to 20-1. need not exceed 6-1
"Several of the cases are by mistake not placed in chronological order."--Preface.
"The cases in Ambler run from 1716. The earliest case (p. 581) is in that year. One (p. 520) is in 1725, one (p. 582) in 1731. The latest (p. 776) is in 1783"--J.W. Wallace, The reporters. 4th ed. 1882.
Report of the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., on an information filed, ex officio, by the attorney general, for the distribution of a libel : with the subsequent proceedings thereon : containing the arguments of counsel, the opinion of the court, and Mr. Rowan's address to the court, at full
A Succinct digest of the laws relating to bankrupts : in which all the reported, and several manuscript cases upon this important subject ... are inserted, and the respective rights and duties of the commissioners, creditors and bankrupt discussed and explained
