In search of Buchanan : 'Clarior hinc honos' : the stories of some Buchanan ancestors before and after the emigration of James Buchanan of Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1783
iii, 152, [17] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm
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Sub-title on cover: from Anselan to President James Buchanan.
"Some of these stories are incorporated in the BBC1 TV documentary, 'Are you related to an American President?', produced by Big Mountain Productions."
Lex vadiorum : the law of mortgages, wherein is treated the nature of mortgages, and the several sorts of proviso's in the same deed, or by deed absolute : defeazance, demise and redemise, or by covenant, and otherwise : with special clauses, conditions, and covenants, explained and illustrated by many adjudged cases at common law, and by presidents : likewise of the payments of the mortgage-money, by whom and to whom, and several cases and rules of tender : also of assignments of mortgages, and the manner of assignees transferring, accounting, &c. : with proper and well-pen'd presidents, according to the circumstances of cases : and further, of the equity of redemption and the nature of it, and how it is governed by the rules of equity : and of releases of equity of redemption and how transferrable or extinguishable : with the niceties of buying in precedent incumbrances : and several other matters and cases adjudged in the High Court of Chancery (with presidents of bills, answers, pleas) &c. : to which are added several cases of pawns and pledges, adjudged at common law
Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
