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
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
A new Spanish and English dictionary : collected from the best Spanish authors, both ancient and modern : containing several thousand words more than any other dictionary, with their etymology; their proper, figurative, burlesque and cant significations, the common terms of arts and sciences , the proper names of men, the surnames of families and an account of them, the titles of the nobility of Spain, together with its geography, and that of the West Indies, with the names of such provinces, towns and rivers in other parts which differ in Spanish from the English : also above two thousand proverbs literally translated ... : to which is added, a copious English and Spanish dictionary, likewise a Spanish grammar, more complete and easy than any hitherto extant
A series of the decisions of The Court of King's Bench upon settlement-cases ; from The Death of Lord Raymond in March 1732: To which is Added A Complete Abridgment of the Substance of each Case, and two Tables of the Names of them. Published for the Use of Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, and of Barristers and others attending the Quarter-Sessions. By James Burrow, Esq ; Master of the Crown-Office, and one of the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove, in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn,
Date of Publication
M DCC LXVIII. [1768]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: Containing near Fifteen Years, and including Lord Chief Justice Ryder's Time and the first Twelve Years of Lord Mansfield's. To this Volume is added an index to both Volumes. And there are also subjoined A few thoughts upon pointing and some other Helps towards perspicuity of expression.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 650 and 651 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate removed from vol. 1; bookplate of Godfrey Lill, Esq. his Majestys Solicitor Gen. of Ireland in vol 2.
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
An introduction to the making of Latin : comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax : with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in antoher : to which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome, intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue with rules for the gender of nouns
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges on London-Bridge,
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
"A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors, both literal and free, for the easy and expeditious attainment of the Latin tongue" (p. [277]-297) has special title page.
Signatures: A-N¹².
Bookseller's advertisement on last three pages.
Apparently from Jasper Yeates's personal libarary.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of John Yeates.
The statutes at large, from the first year of the reign of King George the First, to the third year of the reign of King George the Second: To which is prefixed, a table of titles of all the publick and private statutes during the time
Printed for John Baskett, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, and by the, assigns of Robert Baskett ;and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, law printers to the King's most excellent Majesty
Precedents in the office of a justice of peace : to which is added a short system of conveyancing, in a method entirely new : with an appendix, containing a variety of the most useful forms
Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the ninth day of October, Anno Dom. 1722 ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty seventh day of June, 1727. Being the sixth session of this present Parliament
Printed by John Baskett ... and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills.,
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Physical Description
42, 666, [2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Each act constitutes a chapter; each chapter has a caption title, and most have a general t.p.
LHS copy imperfect: all chapters except 5 (second occurrence), 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21 wanting. Transcription of title from general t.p. prefixed to chapter 1.
The general t.p. for the second group of paging has the phrase: At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty third day of January, Anno Dom. 1727 ... being the first session of this present Parliament.
