A new and complete law-dictionary : or, General abridgment of the law : on a more extensive plan than any law-dictionary hitherto published : containing not only the explanation of the terms, but also the law itself, both with regard to theory and practice. Very useful to barristers, justices of the peace, attornies, solicitors, &c
Reports of select cases in all the court of Westminster-hall, also the opinion of all the judges of England relating to the grandest prerogative of the royal family, and some observations relating to the prerogative of a queen consort
1 preliminary leaf, xxxvi, [8], 440, [24] pages 33 cm
Notes
Chiefly cases in the Court of King's Bench, 1695-1738, with the preface that appeared in Lord Fortescue's new edition of Sir John Fortescue's work "The difference between an absolute and limited monarchy", 1714; and followed by articles entitled: Precedence, etc. of the judges: p. 382-397; Aurum reginæ: p. 398-400; The grand opinion for the prerogative concerning the royal family: p. 401-440.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page among those of four previous owners.
Book number 719 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Precedence, etc. of the judges -- Aurum reginæ -- The grand opinion for the prerogative concerning the royal family.
The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index
An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: piⶠB⸠D-Fâ´ [G]â´ H-2Mâ´.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States : on the act of the 3d, of April 1792, delivered in February term, 1805, in the case of the lessee of H.I. Huidekoper vs. James Douglass : after argument on questions stated by the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania district of the Third Circuit, for the judgement and decision of the Supreme Court
March's actions for slander, and arbitrements. : The first, being a collection, under certain grounds and heads, of what words are actionable in the law, and what not: where an action de scandalis magnatum will lie: and of the nature of a libel. The other, a discourse, shewing what arbitrements are good in law, and what not: together with directions and presidents of conditions to perform awards, indentures of submission to awards, with covenants to perform the same; arbitrements of lands which the parties covenant to perform, or of debt, &c. upon submission by bond, and variety of pleadings therein. As also, certain quaeries, or doubtful cases, under proper titles, with the books cited pro & contra; very useful for all students in the law
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
The history and antiquities of the four Inns of Court, namely, the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn : and of the nine Inns of Chancery, to wit, Clifford's Inn, Clement's Inn, Lion's Inn, New Inn, Strand Inn, Furnival's Inn, Thavies Inn, Staple Inn, and Barnard's Inn : also of Serjeant's Inn in Fleet-Street and Chancery-Lane, and Scroop's Inn : containing every particular circumstance relative to each of them, comprized in the well known and justly celebrated work, written by Sir William Dugdale, and published in folio in the years 1666, 1671, and 1680, under the title of Origines juridicales, &c. : to which is subjoined an appendix, containing several modern orders made by the Society of Lincoln's Inn
the whole is published by desire of some members of Parliament, in order to point out the abuses in the government of the Inns of Court and Chancery ...
Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
