An explanation of the practice of law : containing the elements of special pleading, reduced to the comprehension of every one; also, elements of a plan for a reform: shewing that the plaintiff's costs in a common action, which at present amount to from 25 to 35-1. need not exceed 10-1. and those of the defendant, which are now from 12 to 20-1. need not exceed 6-1
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law ; as also the law and practice , under the proper heads and titles: together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time. Adapted to the use of barristers, students and practicers of the law, etc
Printed for James Williams, at No. 5, in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
MDCC:XXIII (1778)
Physical Description
1 volume (no pagination) ; 40 cm.
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Loose inside back cover: an advertisement of J. E. Barr & Co, 27East King Street, Lancaster, Pa. for the Sunday School Department,(60 x 45 cm.) undated.
Printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street.,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Physical Description
3 volumes : maps, portraits ; folio.
Notes
Pagination: v.1: [2], iv, 962, [30] p., [5], 10 leaves of plates; v.2: [4], 1130, [22] p., 11 leaves of plates; v.3: [2], 1396, [12] p., 5 leaves of plates.
Title pages printed in red and black.
Printed marginalia.
Text printed in double columns.
V. 1 has imprint: 'London: printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLIV.'; v.2 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLVII.'; v.3 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Mitre and Crown, opposite Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC LI.'
V.2 has title: A general history of England, beginning with the reign of Edward the Second, and ending with that of Henry the Eighth.
V.3 has title: A general history of England, from Edward the Sixth to the restoration of King Charles the Second. With a summary of public affairs from the restoration to the time of the revolution, digested in annals.
Published in parts.
'Proposals for printing the third and last volume' was issued on 7 November 1747.
Jasper Yeate's Colonial Law Library.
Book numbers 5, 6, and 7 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Includes index at the end of each volume.
ESTC,
Full leather binding gold tooled around perimeters and figured gold tooling on edges of covers; spines strengthened by leather strips.
The history of the life of King Henry the Second, and of the age in which he lived, in five books: to which is prefixed a history of the revolutions of England from the death of Edward the Confessor to the birth of Henry the Second: by George Lord Lyttelton
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 ...
A report of some proceedings on the commission of Oyer and terminer and goal delivery : for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases
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
Lehman-Burke family history : a three century narrative of an ordinary American family, 1708-2002, as seen in the lives of my parents, Algie Ellsworth Lehman and Mabel Claire (Burke) Lehman, and in the lives and times of their ancestors and descendants
Record of indentures of individuals bound out as apprentices, servants, etc., and of German and other redemptioners in the office of the Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, October 3, 1771, to October 5, 1773. With a new index
Genealogical notes on the family of John Hartz, 1801-1882 (also known as Hatts, Hatz, Hotz, Holtz, Hutz) and Catharine Hershey, 1807-1874, of Dauphin-Lebanon County, Pennsylvania : including a few of their ancestors and some descendants
