James Buchanan; paper read before the Kittochtinny Historical Society of Franklin County, Friday evening, March 30, 1900, at the residence of Dr. Chas. F. Palmer, Chambersburg, Pa
v. 1. The cases from the beginning of Easter term, 1802 to the end of Easter term, 1804 -- v. 2. The cases from the beginning of Trinity term, 1804 to the period of Lord Redesdale's resignation of the Great Seal [i.e. 1807].
The acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals. And an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered, or repealed. Together with the royal, proprietary, city, and borough charters; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province
Domesday Book ( Middle English for "Doomsday Book" ) is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The survey's main purpose was to determine what taxes had been owed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor, thereby allowing William to reassert the rights of the Crown and assess where power lay after a wholesale redistribution of land following the Norman conquest. [from Wikipedia]
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.
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,
Vol.1 has an additional titlepage with the words: "Part the fourth. Volume the first. . "; the first three parts not published? - Vols.1 and 2 have continuous pagination.
Vols. 2-5 are entitled 'Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the time of Lord Mansfield's coming to preside in it: . '.
Vol.2 bears the imprint: "Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers; for J. Worrall and B. Tovey" and is dated 1766; vol 3 was "printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers; for Barnes Tovey, (successor to Mr John Worrall.)" and is dated 1771; vols.4 and 5 were "printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers; for Edward Brooke (successor to Mr. John Worrall and Mr. Barnes Tovey,)" and are dated 1776 and 1780 respectively.
Vol. 2 has title: Reports of cases adjudged in the superior courts of law and equity, Court of Conference, and Federal court. For the State of North Carolina. Raleigh, Printed by William Boylan, 1806.
"Vol. 2 Haywood contains a number of decisions in the United States Circuit Court, delivered chiefly by Judge Marshall, 1802-1805"--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the state of Connecticut and in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Connecticut
Vols. 3-4 have title: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme court of errors of the state of Connecticut; and in the Circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut. Imprint varies: v. 1, Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. 1806.--v. 2, Hartford: Printed by Lincoln and Gleason. 1809.--v. 3, New-York: Published by Isaac Riley. 1811.--v. 4, New-York: Published by I. Riley, no. 4, City-hotel. C. Wiley, printer. 1813.--v. 5, Hartford, Printed by P.B. Gleason and co., 1823.
"A supplement, containing a few decisions of the Superior court on the circuit": v. 3, p. [485]-513.
Library lacks volume 5.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signataure at top of title page.
Book numbers 363, 364, 365a, ane 365b as assigned by Yeates.
Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
