Reports of cases, upon appeals and writs of error, in the High Court of Parliament ; from the year 1701, to the year 1779. With tables, notes and references. By Josiah Brown, Esq. Barrister at law
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.
A system of pleading : including a translation of the Doctrina Placitandi, or, The art and science of pleading : originally written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at law, and now first translated from the obsolete Norman French : shewing where, in what cases, and by what persons, pleas, as well personal, or mixed, may be properly pleaded, with references to, and extracts from, the most approved writers on the subject, carefully digested under their proper titles, and brought into one collective point of view : together with an introduction, explaining the different terms made use of in the proceedings of each respective court : also a preface and table
Drop-head title, p[iii]: 'Preface to the sixth edition, M. DCC. LXXI'.
Includes: 'An analysis of the laws of England', 'An essay on collateral consanguinity', 'Considerations on copyholders', 'Observations on the Oxford press' and 'The Great Charter, and charter of the forest, . To which is prefixed an introductory discourse. The charters themselves have a separate (Roman) pagination sequence, though the introduction to them continues the main sequence.
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple-Lane, and T. Cadell in the Strand,
Observations on the more ancient statutes from Magna Charta to the twenty-first of James I. cap. XXVII. : With an appendix, being a proposal for new modelling the statutes
Printed by His Majesty's law printers for J.F. and C. Rivington, W. Owen, T. Longman, J. Johnson, G. Robinson, W. Flexney, W. Fox, E. Brooke, S. Hayes, and T. Whieldon and Co.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical Description
[4], 286, [74], 2 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-Z⸠2Aâ¶.
Includes index.
Errata: p. [74] at end.
Bookseller's advertisements: 2 p. at end.
LC copy has inscriptions: W.L. White's, 31. August 1787; Fred. White. Underlining and marginal manuscript annotation. Gathering 2A misbound: 2A1, 2A3, 2A2, 2A4, 2A5, 2A6.
The fourth edition, commencing with the eleventh year of the reign of King Richard II and ending with the sixteenth year of the reign of King George III, with two alphabetical tables to the whole /
The fourth edition, commencing with the eleventh year of the reign of King Richard II and ending with the sixteenth year of the reign of King George III, with two alphabetical tables to the whole /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. Wright ... for C. Bathurst, J. and F. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Longman, W. Owen, T. Cadell, M. Folingsby, T. Lowndes, B. Law, J. Wilkie, R. Horsefield, M. Hingeston, S. Bladon, T. Carnan, H. Gardner, W. Otridge, and the rest of the proprietors, and sold by G. Kearsly ...,
Date of Publication
1776-81.
Physical Description
11 v. ; 48 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Originally published in 1719 under title: Compleat collection of state-tryals and proceedings upon impeachments for high treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours.
Preface includes bibliographical history of this work; Thomas Salmon edited the 1st ed., Sollom Emlyn the 2nd.
"The first six [volumes] ... printed exactly from the third edition, and the four next from the four supplemental volumes ... As to the eleventh volume, it is reserved wholly for additional matter"--Preface.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Books187, 188, 189 190, and 191 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Vol. 1 1388-1628 -- v. 2. 1648-1679 -- v. 3. 1679-1684 -- v. 4. 1685-1696 -- v. 5. 1696-1709 -- v. 6. 1715-1741 -- v. 7. 1549-1688 -- v. 8. 1689-1722 -- v. 9. 1712/3-1748/9 -- v. 10. 1752-1765 -- v. 11. 1494-1777.
