Report of the trial and acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice, and Jasper Yeates and Thomas Smith, Esquires, Assistant Justices, of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, on an impeachment, before the Senate of the Commonwealth, January, 1805
translated from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, being the first book of his Quaestiones juris publici, with notes, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
Signatures preceded by a dagger, e.g. [dagger]a, [dagger]A, [dagger]2E.
Errata: p. [199].
Issued also as The American law journal, v. 3, no. 11-12, Oct. 1810.
"An account of the life and writings of the author": pages [xiii]-xxi.
Half title: Treatise on the law of war.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 806 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxx) and index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
Of war in general -- Of a declaration of war -- Of war, considered as between enemies -- Of the capture of movable property, and particularly of ships -- Of the recapture of movable property -- Of the possession of immovables taken in war -- Of the confiscation of the enemy's actions and credits -- Of hostilities in a neutral port or territory -- Of neutrality -- Of contraband -- Of trade with blockaded and besieged places -- Of the mixture of lawful with contraband goods -- Of neutral goods found on board of the ships of enemies -- Of enemy's goods found on board of neutral ships -- Of the right of Postliminy on neutral territory -- Of the right of Postliminy, as applied to cities and states -- Of pirates -- Of privateers -- Of the responsibility of owners of privateers -- Of captures made by vessels not commissioned -- Of insuring enemy's property -- Of enlisting men in foreign countries, and incidentally, of expatriation -- Of the right of the several provinces of the United Netherlands, to declare and make war -- Of reprisals -- Miscellaneous maxims and observations.
Summary
"A brief alphabetical notice of several writers and works on the civil law and the law of nations: not generally known, and which are quoted or referred to in this book": pages [xxiii]-xxx.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; : being the second session of the Second Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792, and in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Second Congress, 2nd Session: from 5 November 1792 to 2 March 1793.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 6, 1792: p. 5-9.
Signed on p. 89: Samuel A. Otis, secretary [of the Senate].
Signatures: [A]² B-2B².
Appendix: Titles of the acts passed at the second session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the 5th day of November 1792. -- Bills originated during the session, but were either rejected or postponed. -- The classes of the Senators of the United States, on the 4th day of March 1793.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, : being the first session of the Third Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, December 2d, 1793. And in the eighteenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the third session of the Fifth Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, December 3d, 1798. And in the twenty-third year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple-Lane, and T. Cadell in the Strand,
An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words ... and also a brief and clear explication of all Difficult words ... relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physick, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chy-mistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematicks ... together with a large collection and explication of words used in our ancient statutes ... and the Etymology, and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: Also the Dialects of our different Counties. Also a Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication and Illustration
The Twentieth edition to which are added, above 3000 words, interspersed in their proper places, none of which are to be found in any former edition of this book.
The Twentieth edition to which are added, above 3000 words, interspersed in their proper places, none of which are to be found in any former edition of this book.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, et al.,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, LXIV [1764].
Physical Description
944 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
"Philologos" in title after author's name is printed in Greek characters.
At foot of titlepage: price six shillings. A reissue, with errors on the titlepage corrected --ESTC T87509.
Signatures: piâ´ aâ´ B-6Câ´.
LHO copy wanting main title page.
Apparently from the personal libray of Yeates.
Book number 1039 not asssigned by Yeates.
Signature of John Yeates at top of dedication page.
English Short Title Catalog, ESTC
Alston,
Contents
Dedication, pi² -- Introduction, pi³ -- Abbreviations made use of in the following work, aâ´ (recto) -- Alphabets of the English, Saxon, Greek* and Hebrew Characters, paralleled for the Use of those who would acquaint themselves with Etymological Words, aâ´ (verso) -- An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: AND An Interpreter of Hard Words, [A-Z], Signatures B-6Câ´.
A dictionary of the English language. : In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which is prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar
by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. This edition contains a standard of correct pronunciation, and an historical account of the author's life, not in any former one: embellished with a most-striking likeness of Dr. Johnson. In two volumes ...
Edition: imprint to vol. 2 gives Marchbank's address as no. 18 Chancery-Lane and is dated 1798; a later issue of this edition has this imprint in both volumes (see copy at OLS L-5-188-189).
Subscribers' list present, [a]2; note at end states that as not enough subscriptions were received Marchbank had to relinquish a half share in the edition to William Gilbert and Jeremiah Sullivan.
Issued in parts (see nos. in signature lines: 26 in vol. 1 and 27 in vol. 2).
Alston, R.C. Engl. language V,
English language
Imperfect: lacks portrait and historical biography.
Apparently from the personal library of Jasper Yeates.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Signature of Catherine Yeates under that of Jasper Yeates on title pages, on the first page of the preface in vol. 1 and on the first page of the dictionary in vol. 2.
Books numbers 1050 and 1051 not assitned by Yeates.
Journal of the first session of the ninth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-third
Errors in paging: p. 209, 429 misnumbered 109, 329.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1798, both days inclusive."--61, [1] p., Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year M, DCC, XCVIII."--17, [1] p. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the arrears of taxes due from th eseveral counties, of the state of Pennsylvania, and some remarks thereon.-8 p. [p. 8 lacking] Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799.
Journal of the first session of the ninth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-third
Errors in paging: p. 209, 429 misnumbered 109, 329.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1798, both days inclusive."--61, [1] p., Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year M, DCC, XCVIII."--17, [1] p. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the arrears of taxes due from th eseveral counties, of the state of Pennsylvania, and some remarks thereon.-8 p. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799.
