The office and duty of executors : or, A treaties directing testators to form, and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law. Originally compiled by that judicious and approved author, Tho. Wentworth
And now enlarged with a supplement, containing divers matters and things not comprized in former impressions, relating to wills, executors, administrators, devises, legacies, &c. Collected from the common and statute laws, and methodically digested, rendring the whole compleat, and in all its parts conformable to the present time and laws now in force. With references to the several acts of Parliament and authentick books of reports both ancient and modern authorizing and approving the same. By H. Curson.
The life of the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, knight, lord chief justice of the Court of King's-bench; containing several arguments touching the rights and liberties of the people, delivered by his lordship, with great reason and remarkable courage, upon most important occasions, during the reigns of Their Majesties, King William the Third, and Queen Anne; taken from the report of the Lord Chief Justice Raymond, &c. And an abstract of Lord Chief Justice Holt's will, codicils, &c. Also points of law, resolved by his lordship, on evidence, at nisi prius. With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports. Never before published
An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
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"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
The trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. and Timothy Brecknock, for the procurement of James Fulton and others, for the murder of Pat. Ran. M'Donnell and Charles Hipson : also the trial of John Gallagher and others, for an assault on Geo. Rob. Fitzgerald, in the Gaol of Castlebar ... : together with a description of their conduct at the place of execution : taken from the notes of a gentleman : likewise an address from the high sheriff and grand jury of the county of Mayo to the lord lieutenant, and his answer thereto
Bound with An account of the argument of counsel and director of the court on a plea of auterfois acquit..for procuring, stirring, and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig , and others to slee and murder Patrick Randal M'Connnel...Dublin: P,. Byrne1786 - The trial of John Magee for....libel against Richard Daly...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1790 - Ten thousand pounds damages...a report on the trial ...brought by the Reverand Charles Massy against...the Marquis of Headfort for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife...Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1804 - Trial of Fracis Bellew, esq...for appearing in arms with a mob of defenders...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1794 - A faithful report on the trial of the proprietors of the Northern Star...Belfast, 1794.
Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original
A treatise upon wills and codicils, with an Appendix of the statutes, and a copious collection of useful precedents, with notes, practical and explanatory
Reports of cases in the county courts of the Fifth circuit, and in the High courts of errors & appeals, of the state of Pennsylvania. [1791-1799] And Charges to grand juries of those county courts
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 treatise on the revocation and republication of wills and testaments : together with tracts upon the law concerning baron and feme : including curtesy, dower, jointures, leases, settlements, separation, discontinuances, &c