A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634 to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line: the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present time ... For the use of schools
Style's practical register : begun in the reign of King Charles I, consisting of rules, orders, and the principal observations concerning the practice of the common law in the courts at Westminster, particularly the Kings Bench, as well in matters criminal as civil : carefully continued down to this time, alphabetically digested under several titles, with a table for the ready finding out of those titles
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.
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
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
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law : as also the whole law and practice thereof, under all the heads and titles : together with such informations relating thereto, as explain the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgements, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories published to this time
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 modern practice of the High Court of Chancery : methodized and digested in a manner wholly new : interspersed with variety of the most approved and modern forms of practical precedents incidental to every suit in the progress of it, from the original bill to the decree, comprising a system of practical knowledge, according to the course of the Court as at present established
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
The law of ejectments, or, A treatise shewing the nature of ejectione firme, the difference between it and trespass, and how to be brought or removed where the lands lie in franchises. ... As also who are good witnesses or not in the trial on ejectment, and what shall be allowed good evidence or not ... Together with the learning of special verdicts at large, relating to titles of land and estates in several rules, and of judgments with their several forms of entries in special cases ... Very necessary for all lawyers, attornies, and other persons, especially at the assises, &c ?
