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
An abridgement of the three volumes of Reports of the learned Sr. George Croke, kt., of such select cases as were adjudged in the Courts of King's-Bench and Common-Bench, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First
collected by Sir George Cary one of the masters of the Chancery in anno 1601 ; out of the labours of Mr. William Lambert ; whereunto is annexed, the King's order and decree in Chancery, for a rule to be observed by the chancellor in that court, exemplified and enrolled for a perpetual record there, anno 1616 ; together with an alphabetical table of all the cases.
Plusieurs tres-bons cases : come ils estoyent adjudgees es trois premiers ans [1624-1627] du raign du feu Roy Charles le Premier en la Court de Bank le Roy, non encore publiees per aucun autre
colligees per le feu scavant & tres-erudite homme Monsieur Jean Latch ... ; avec deux tables parfaits des matieres notables, & nosmes des cases comprises la dedans publiees per Edward Walpoole.
Printed for A. Crooke, W. Leake, A. Roper, F. Tyton, G. Sawbridge, T. Dring, T. Collins, J. Place, W. Place, J. Starkey, T. Basset, R. Pawlet, and S. Heyrick,
Date of Publication
1668.
Physical Description
[14], 940, 836, [8] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 39 cm (fol.)
Notes
Preface by Sir Matthew Hale. See DNB.
Frontispiece is portrait of author. See DNB.
Numerous errors in paging.
Six pages of hand-written material on front flyleaves.
Handwritten notes throughout both volumes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library. of volume 1.
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
Les reports de Gulielme Bendloes, serjeant de la ley : des divers resolutions et judgments donne par les reverendes judges de la ley : de certeine matieres en la ley en le temps del raigne de roys et roignes Hen. VIII. Edw. VI. Phil. et Mar. et Elizab. [1530-1627] : avecque autres select cases en la ley adjudges et resolves en le temps del regne de tresillustres roys Jaqves et Charles le Premier : jammais par cy devant imprimee. Ovesq ; un table bien perfaict de matieres notables contenues en les dits reports et cases. Et auxsi un auter table de nosmes del cases contenues en yceaux. Publies en le XIII. au [i.e. an] de treshaut et renosmes Charles le Second
"There is always a gap of forty-eight pages and forty-five years in the middle of this volumes-from p. 41 to p. 89"--Soule's Lawyer's reference manual.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page under signature of former owner.
The lavv of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43 Eliz: chap. 4. is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute: also presidents, inquisitions, and decrees, with divers judgments, and resolutions, upon exceptions and appeals against decrees; and other proceedings upon the said statute. The second edition, much enlarged and amended. By John Herne
Les reports du treserudite Edmund Anderson, chivalier, nadgairs, seigniour chief justice del Common-Bank : des mults principals cases argues & adjuges en le temps del jadis roign Elizabeth cibien en le Common-Bank come devant touts les juges de cest roialme
second part des reports du treserudite Edmund Anderson
Responsibility
colligees & escries per luy mesme & imprimees per l'original ore remaneant en les maines del imprimeur ; ove deux tables des nosmes des cases & des principal matters conteinus en yceux.
Printed by T.R. for Andrew Crook, Henry Twyford, Gabriel Bedell, Thomas Dring, and John Place, and are to be sold at their shops,
Date of Publication
1664-1665.
Physical Description
2 v. : ports. (engravings) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Notes
The printer's name is Thomas Roycroft. Cf. Wing.
Vol. 1: [12], 354, [36] p.; v. 2: [8], 211, [21] p., [1] leaf of plates.
"Divers cases queux aveign en le Court de gards icy ensua": v. 2, p. 187-211.
Includes index.
Errata: v. 1, p. [35] at end.
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Bound into 1 v. Imperfect: ports. wanting.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 746 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
