An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
Last page blank.
"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
A Digest of the laws of the United States of America : being a complete system, (alphabetically arranged) of all the public acts of Congress now in force-from the commencement of the federal government, to the end of the third session of the Fifth Congress, which terminated in March 1799, inclusive
A series of the decisions of The Court of King's Bench upon settlement-cases ; from The Death of Lord Raymond in March 1732: To which is Added A Complete Abridgment of the Substance of each Case, and two Tables of the Names of them. Published for the Use of Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, and of Barristers and others attending the Quarter-Sessions. By James Burrow, Esq ; Master of the Crown-Office, and one of the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove, in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn,
Date of Publication
M DCC LXVIII. [1768]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: Containing near Fifteen Years, and including Lord Chief Justice Ryder's Time and the first Twelve Years of Lord Mansfield's. To this Volume is added an index to both Volumes. And there are also subjoined A few thoughts upon pointing and some other Helps towards perspicuity of expression.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 650 and 651 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate removed from vol. 1; bookplate of Godfrey Lill, Esq. his Majestys Solicitor Gen. of Ireland in vol 2.
Vol. 2-4 have title: Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the several courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania, held at the seat of the federal government.
Also known as: U.S. reports.
Imprint varies.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 368b, 369, 270, and 371 as assigned by Yeates.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred, to the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. : Republished, under the authority of the legislature. : With notes and references. : In four volumes. Vol. I[-V]
Printed and published by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street.,
Date of Publication
1810[-1812].
Physical Description
5 v. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Title of v. 4-5 varies: Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred. Republished, under the authority of the legislature. With notes and references. Vol. IV[-V].
"The Governor be, and he hereby is authorized and required to receive proposals, and contract with John Bioren, for thirteen hundred and fifty copies of his proposed edition of the Acts of Assembly of this commonwealth, to the end of the present session of the legislature, to be printed correctly on good paper, with entirely new small pica type, in four volumes royal octavo, of six hundred pages, each well bound and lettered, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per volume ... approved--the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten. Simon Snyder."--V. 1, p. [iii].
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... John Bioren is hereby authorized to close the fourth volume of the new edition of the laws with the laws of the session of one thousand eight hundred and seven-eight; and that all the laws subsequently passed, and which may be passed during the present session, shall be published and included in a fifth volume ... approved--the seventeeth [sic] day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Simon Snyder."--V. 4, verso of title page.
Vol. 5 has imprint date: 1812.
Vol. 1: lix, [1], 560 p.; v. 2: xxvi, 622 p.; v. 3: xliv, 556 p.; v. 4: xix, [1], 563, [1] p.; v. 5: xxxi, [5], 445, [1], 393, [1] p. Last p. of v. 4-5 blank.
Error in paging: v. 3, p. xxxvii misnumbered xxxvi.
"General index to the laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes. From the year 1700, to the thirty-first of March, 1812, inclusive. Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, no. 88 Chesnut-street. 1812"--V. 5, 393 p., 3rd count. Also recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 26410.
Shaw & Shoemaker records v. 1-4 as entry 21026, and the complete set as entry 26414.
With a separate index to each of v. 1-4.
"Constitution of the United States of America."--V. 3, p. [xxvi]-xxxv.
"Constitution of the state of Pennsylvania."--V. 3, p. [xxxvi]-xliv.
"Certificate, notes, & extracts, by the secretary of the land-office."--V. 5, p. [x]-xxxi.
The clergy-man's law, or, The complete incumbent : collected from the thirty-nine articles, canons, decrees in Chancery and Exchequer, as also from all the statutes and common-law cases relating to the church and clergy of England : digested under proper heads for the benefit of patrons of churches and the parochial clergy : and will be useful to all students and practitioners of the law
by William Watson ... ; with a table of the contents of the chapters and another of the principal matters ; to which are added the names of the present bishops and other chief dignitaries of the Church of England.
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for D. Midwinter, W. Innys, T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, Messrs. Longman and Shewell, J. Shuckburgh, T. Osborne, J. Worrall, C. Hitch, C. Corbett, C. Bathurst, G. Hawkins, T. Waller, A. Nutt,
Blackstone's Commentaries : with notes of reference, to the Constitution and laws, of the federal government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia : in five volumes, with an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view of the laws of Virginia, as a member of the federal union
Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small ... Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1803.
Physical Description
5 v. : geneal. tables (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
"This edition by 'St. George Tucker ... ' follows the text of the ninth edition, London, 1783. It contains a selection of Christian's notes, marked with his name"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938.
Pagination of the Commentaries is that of another edition.
Signatures: v. 1: [A]â´ B-4Gâ´; v. 2: [A]â´ B-4Fâ´ (4F4 blank); v. 3: pi² A-5Aâ´ 5B1, IV leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 4: pi² A-4Lâ´ [4M]1; v. 5: pi² A-4Gâ´ 5A-5Fâ´ 5G².
Errata: v. 1, leaf 4G4; v. 4, leaf [4M]1.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 350, 351, 352, 353, 354 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cohen, M.L. Bibliography of Early American law,
Eller, C.S. William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
by Richard Peters, comprising also some decisions in the same court, by the late Francis Hopkinson, to which are added cases determined in other districts of the United States. With an appendix containing --The laws of Oleron.--The laws of Wisbuy.--The laws of the Hanse towns.--The Marine ordinances of Louis XIV.--A treatise on the rights and duties of owners, freighters, and masters of ships, and of mariners: and the laws of the United States relative to mariners.
Published by William P. Farrand; Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Preface signed: Richard Peters, Jun.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
On verso of front flyleaf: "Affectionely presented to Judge Yeates - by his old & Sincere] Friend, Classmate, and Fellow Student, Richard Peters, Aug. 1807."
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.
Acts passed at the first session of the Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of New-York on Wednesday the fourth of March in the year M, DCC, LXXXIX, and of the independence of the United States, the thirteenth
Vol. 2 has title: Acts passed at the first session of the Second Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, in the year M, DCC, XCI, and of the independence of the United States, the sixteenth.
Each vol. includes all sessions of the respective Congress.
Debates and other proceedings of the Convention of Virginia : convened at Richmond, on Monday the 2d day of June 1788, for the purpose of deliberating on the constitution recommended by the Grand Federal Convention, to which is prefixed the federal constitution
Vols. 2-3 published in 1789, with imprint: Petersburg : Printed by William Prentis.
Vol. 1: 194, [2] p.; v. 2: 195, [1] p.; v. 3: 228 p.
Errata: v. 1, p. 194, v. 2, p. 194-195; v. 3, p. 227-228.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 593 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound after Thomas Lloyd, Debates of the convention of the state of Pennsyvania, vol 1, 1788 and before page 321 of Thomas Lloyd, Debates of the general assembly of Pennsylvania, v. 4.
Bound with Lloyd, Thomas, Debates of the General Assembly of Pennvania, vol 4, Philadelphia: printed for the editor, 1788 - Lloy, Thomas, Debates of the convention of the state of Pennsylvnania on the constitution proposed for the government of the United States, vol 1, Philadia: Joseph James, 1788.
The acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals. And an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered, or repealed. Together with the royal, proprietary, city, and borough charters; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province
Journal of the House of representatives of the United States, at the first session of the Second Congress. ; Anno M,DCC,XCI, and of the independence of the United States the sixteenth
Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's Bench in the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth years of King George the Second : [1734-1735] : during which time the Right Honourable the Earl of Hardwicke was Lord Chief Justice of that court
S. Pufendorfii De officio hominis & civis juxta legem naturalem libri duo. Selectis variorum notis, maximeq; propriis illustravit ... Buddei Historiam juris naturalis notis adauctam præmisit, indicemq; rerum subjunxit Tho. Johnson
Includes index of cases cited (p. [xiv]-xvi), general index, and list of subscribers (p. [1-4] at end).
Advertisements on p. [5-6] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 931 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
(from t. p.) I. Of the owners of merchant ships -- II. Of the persons employed in the navigation thereof -- III. Of the carriage of goods therein -- IV. Of the wages of merchant seamen.
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
