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Bibliotheca legum : or, A catalogue of the common and statute law books of this realm, and some others relating thereto, from their first publication, to Michaelmas term, 1775, giving an account of their several editions, ancient printers, dates, and prices, and wherein they differ. A new ed., corrected and improved: to which is added, a list of the principal Scotch law books, and some relating to Ireland

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Author
Worrall, John,
Date of Publication
1776.
Call Number
Book 225 1776
Responsibility
compiled by John Worrall.
Author
Worrall, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Edward Brooke (successor to J. Worrall and B. Tovey),
Date of Publication
1776.
Physical Description
[12], 150 pages ; 17 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under name of previous owner.
Book number 225 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Bibliography.
Law - Bibliography - Early.
Law.
Great Britain.
Bibliography.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 225 1776
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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, being a complete digest of all such acts of Assembly, as concern the commonwealth at large. To which is added, an appendix, containing a variety of precedents (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace, sheriffs, attornies and conveyancers

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Author
Read, Collinson,
Date of Publication
MDCCCI-04.
Call Number
Book 326 1801
Book 327 1804
Responsibility
By Collinson Read.
Author
Read, Collinson,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for the author.
Date of Publication
MDCCCI-04.
Physical Description
2 volumes 22 cm
Notes
Vol. 2 has imprint: Philadelphia: Printed and published by H. Maxwell, no. 25, North Second street. 1804.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 326 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten title page for volume one.
Handwritten index, [24 p.]
Handritten letter from Read to Yeates answering Yeates's objections against his digest affixed to front fly leaf.
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.
Forms (Law) - Pennsylvania.
Forms (Law)
Law.
Pennsylvania.
Digests.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 326 1801
Book 327 1804
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The law-French dictionary alphabetically digested : very useful for all young students in the common laws of England. To which is added, The law-Latin dictionary: being an alphabetical collection of such law-Latin words as are found in several authentic manuscripts, and printed books of precedents

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Edition
2nd ed., corr. and enl.
Date of Publication
1718.
Call Number
Book 505 1718
Alternate Title
Law-Latin dictionary
Pleader's dictionary
Edition
2nd ed., corr. and enl.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for D. Brown, J. Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1718.
Physical Description
2 volumes in 1 (unpaged, approximately 648 pages) ; 20 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Signature of Godfrey Moyle on fly leaf struck.
Book number 505 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Dictionaries.
Anglo-Norman dialect - Dictionaries.
Latin language
English language - Dictionaries
Anglo-Norman dialect.
English language.
Law.
Dictionaries.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine title (Binding)
Additional Author
Moyle, Godfrey.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 505 1718
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The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations

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Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1751.
Call Number
Book 695 1751
Responsibility
The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Osborne,
Date of Publication
1751.
Physical Description
16 preliminary leaves, 372, [16] pages 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book 695 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Legal maxims - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law.
Legal maxims.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 695 1751
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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

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Author
Dugdale, William,
Date of Publication
[17--?]
Call Number
Bookk 497 17?
Responsibility
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 ...
Author
Dugdale, William,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by Henry Watts, Law-bookseller ...,
Date of Publication
[17--?]
Physical Description
xvi, 143, [1] pages (the last page blank) ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 497 as assiged by Yeates.
Published anonymously. Authorship cited in Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature, v. 3.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Inns of Court - Early works to 1800.
Inns of Chancery - Early works to 1800.
Inns of Chancery.
Inns of Court.
Law.
Great Britain.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Early works.
History.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Cunningham, Timothy,
Dugdale, William,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 497 17?
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, from July A.D. 1789 to June A.D. 1793; with a variety of cases anterior to that period. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court

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Corporate Author
Connecticut. Superior Court.
Date of Publication
1798-1802.
Call Number
Book 401 1802
Book 400 1798
Responsibility
By Jesse Root.
Corporate Author
Connecticut. Superior Court.
Place of Publication
Hartford
Publisher
Printed by Hudson and Goodwin,
Date of Publication
1798-1802.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Title page of v. 2 varies slightly.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 400 and 401 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
V. 1. June 1789-June 1793 -- v. 2. June 1793-June 1798; being four years and a half, or nine circuits.
Summary
"With a variety of cases anterior to that period [1764-1789]. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court."--T.p.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Connecticut.
Court rules - Connecticut.
Law - Connecticut.
Court rules.
Law.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Connecticut.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine title (Binding)
Additional Author
Root, Jesse,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 401 1802
Book 400 1798
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A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c

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Author
Cowell, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Call Number
Book 793 1727
Alternate Title
Interpreter of words and terms
Author
Cowell, John,
Uniform Title
Interpreter
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe ... [and 10 others],
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description
[488] p. ; 33 cm. (folio)
Notes
Originally issued with title: The interpreter, or, Booke containing the signification of words. Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607.
Signatures: A⁶ B-Z⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 3A-3N⁴ 3O-3Q².
The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
"Books lately printed": p. [488], 3Q2v.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 793 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC (RLIN)
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Dictionaries.
Names, Geographical - Great Britain.
Law.
Names, Geographical.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 793 1727
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Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : passed at a session which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States of America, the thirty-third. : Published by authority

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1809.
Call Number
Book 317 1809
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1808)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street.,
Date of Publication
1809.
Physical Description
vii, [1], 210, [6] p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
"Index."--Page [211-216].
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 317 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Pennsylvania.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon pine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Bioren, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 317 1809
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An Analysis of the laws of England : to which is prefixed an introductory discourse on the study of the law

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Author
Blackstone, William,
Edition
5th edition.
Date of Publication
1762.
Call Number
Book 955 1762
Author
Blackstone, William,
Edition
5th edition.
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Press,
Date of Publication
1762.
Physical Description
lxxvii, [7], 189, [15] pages ; 21 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 955 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law - Early works to 1800.
Law.
Law
Great Britain.
Early works.
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 955 1762
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A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England : wherein by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell as well the ciuile lawes of the empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the ii gouernementes of kingdomes, whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and politique administration conioyned

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Author
Fortescue, John,
Date of Publication
1567.
Call Number
Book 238 1567
Responsibility
written in Latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable Maister Fortescue ... and newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.
Author
Fortescue, John,
Uniform Title
De laudibus legum Angliae.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Rychard Tottill,
Date of Publication
1567.
Physical Description
132 leaves, [5] pages ; 15 cm
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Title page and last page missing.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates' signature on fly leaf and after the dedicatory under name of previous owner, George Stevenson, Sept 7th, 1779.
Book numbaer 238 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written marginal notes.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain.
Constitutional law - Great Britain.
Constitutional law.
Law.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Mulcaster, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Stevenson, George,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 238 1567
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