A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws : down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published ; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By a barrister at law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor
Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
"Published with notes and references, and two tables to each volume; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters: by his son William Peere Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq."
"Freeman's Law and Chancery reports (now in separate volumes) were first published together in one volume, folio, in 1742. They were often cited 1 and 2 Freeman, respectively." cf. Soule, Lawyers' reference manual, 1884, p. 96.
Each part has special t.p. and separate paging.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 140 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, from 1670 to 1683. -- Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery, from 1676 to 1706.
Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Courts of King's bench and common pleas, in the reigns of the late King William, Queen Anne, King George the first and King George the Second
Reports: or New cases : [King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1639-1642] with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation. And the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments
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.
Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer, from the beginning of the reign of King George the First, until the fourteenth year of the reign of King George the Second. [1713-1741]
A report of all the cases determined by Sir John Holt, knt. from 1688 to 1710, during which time he was Lord Chief Justice of England : containing many cases never before printed, taken from an original manuscript of Thomas Farresley ... also several cases in Chancery and the Exchequer-Chamber
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Hazard, T. Osborne, J. Wortall, C. Corbett, C. Ward, and R. Chandler, J. Wood, C. Waller, and G. Hawkins,
Date of Publication
1738.
Physical Description
[2], iii, [16], [90] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
"Cases determined by Sir John Holt. K.B., Ch., Ex. Mainly collected from the printed Reports, with additional cases from the manuscript of Thomas Farresley. "The whole alphabetically digested under proper heads," like an Abridgment. Said to have been edited by Giles Jacob."--The lawyer's reference manual of law books and citations, by Charles C. Soule, 1953.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page over that of E. Biddle.
Book number 717 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten note at bottom of title page concerning Giles Jacob, author of the Law Dictionary "is reputed to be the collector or at least the Publisher of these Reports. (Vide Preface to Chief Justice's Holt's Life, vol IV)
Laws relating to the poor : from the forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the third of King George II : with cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, upon the several clauses of them. In a method entirely new
Cases determined at nisi prius, in the Court of King's Bench. From the sittings after Easter term, 30 Geo. III. to the sittings after Michaelmas term, 35 Geo III. both inclusive [1790-1794]