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,
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
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
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.
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 seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two
by several gentlemen in the respective branches of the law.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan ... for G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Payne, E. & R. Brooke & J. Rider, J. Butterworth, and L. White, Dublin,
Date of Publication
1799-1806.
Physical Description
6 volumes ; 25 cm (8vo)
Notes
"The titles, practice, pleading, and crown law, were prepared by J.E. Watson, S. Comyn, and J. Sedgwick; Chancery and equity, by H. Alcock and J. Wyatt; conveyancing, by J. Humphreys; and the other titles, by A. Anstruther, M. Nolan, and J. Sedgwick. Eunomus, 20."--Marvin.
Vol. 1 and 2 were published in 1799, v. 3 in 1800, v. 4 in 1801, v. 5 in 1805, and v. 6 in 1806. Imprints vary in v. 4-6.
The second edition of Charles Viner's A general abridgment of law and equity was published 1791-1795.
Vol. 1: xv, [1], 606 p.; v. 2: xii, 583, [1] p.; v. 3: xvi, 563, [1] p.; v. 4: xvii, [3], 452 p.
Errata: v. 4, p. [2], 2nd group of paging.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1-3 only. Has bookseller's labels: Geo. Greenland, London.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Books numbers 332, 333, 334, 335 336, and 337 as assigned by Yeates.
English Short Title Catalogue,
Contents
V. 1. Abatement-Bye-laws -- v. 2. Canons-Creditor and debtor -- v. 3. Creditor and bankrupt-Duress -- v. 4. Ejectment-Funeral charges.
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
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench, together with some cases, in the High Court of Chancery, in Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter, and Trinity terms, being the whole of the ... year of the reign of George III. ... : with tables of the names of the cases and of the principal matters
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: : from the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, to the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and four. : Published, under the authority of the legislature, by Thomas M'Kean Thompson. : Vol. VI
Added title page (p. [1]): 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 the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. Published by authority. Octoraro: Printed by Francis Bailey. 1804.
"Secretary's-Office, Lancaster, June 29, 1804. I certify, that ... the laws comprised in this volume, and passed during one session of the legislature, commencing on the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three ... have been collated with and corrected by the original rolls. T.M. Thompson, secretary of the commonwealth."--Title page verso.
"Table of private acts."--Page [iii]-iv, 1st count.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : from the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, both days inclusive
