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Laws enacted in the third sitting of the seventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty and three

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1783]
Call Number
Book 587 1783c
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws (1783 Aug.-Sept.)
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1783]
Physical Description
P. [1], 186-254, [2] ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication supplied by Hildeburn and Evans.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the sixth General Assembly of the representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the sitting which commenced at Philadelphia on Monday, the twenty-second day of October, and continued by adjournment to Friday, the twenty-eighth day of December, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, Philadelphia, 1782 (Evans 17659).
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXXI-CII signed and enacted in the months of August and September, 1783 by Frederick Muhlenburg, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Z. Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Signatures: 3A-3S².
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
History.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Pod, Alexander.
Sharwood, Geo.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1783c
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States : anno M, DCC, LXXXIX, and of the independence of the United States the thirteenth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22051
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. House.
Date of Publication
[1789]
Call Number
Book 850 1789
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. House.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine,
Date of Publication
[1789]
Physical Description
164 pages, clxxvi; 34 cm
Notes
1st Congress, 1st session, Mar. 4, 1789 to Sept. 29, 1789.
Error in paging: p. 148 numbered 142.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 850 as ssigned by Yeates.
With: Journal of House of Representatives ... New York : Childs & Swaine, 1790. -- Journal of House of Representatives ... Philadelphia : Childs & Swaine, 1791.
Evans
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Sources.
United States - History - Constitutional period, 1789-1809 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on speckled boards (Binding)
No spine title (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 850 1789
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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21608
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 587 1777
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Articles of Confederation
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
26 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeaates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwrittne Index precedes text.
Evans
Subjects
United States. - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Paper bindings (Binding)
Stabbing (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Catchwords (Printing)
Printers' devices (Publishing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Autographs (Provenance)
Early works.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1777
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The Constitution proposed for the government of the United States of America, by the foederal convention held at Philadelphia, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven : to which is annexed the ratification thereof by the delegates of Pennsylvania in the state convention

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21646
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1787.
Call Number
Book 589 1787
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Constitution
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall & Sellers,
Date of Publication
1787.
Physical Description
24 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A-C⁴.
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 589 as assigned by Yeates.
Yeates's signature also on fron fly leaf.
Evans
Subjects
Constitutions - United States - Early works to 1800.
Constitutions.
United States.
Early works.
Three-quarters leather on decorated boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 589 1787
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The history of the life of King Henry the Second, and of the age in which he lived, in five books: to which is prefixed a history of the revolutions of England from the death of Edward the Confessor to the birth of Henry the Second: by George Lord Lyttelton

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21363
Author
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,
Edition
A new edition, corrected.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 472 1777
Book 473 1777
Book 474 1777
Book 475 1777
Book 477 1777
Book 476 1777
Author
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,
Uniform Title
History of the life of King Henry the Second.
Edition
A new edition, corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
4 volumes ; (8vo)
Notes
Each volume has a half-title: 'Lord Lyttelton's history of King Henry II. .'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 472-477 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Henry - II, - King of England, - 1133-1189.
Great Britain - History - To 1485.
Great Britain.
History.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 472 1777
Book 473 1777
Book 474 1777
Book 475 1777
Book 477 1777
Book 476 1777
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An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America : submitted to the people by the general convention, at Philadelphia, the 17th day of September, 1787, and since adopted and ratified by the conventions of eleven states, chosen for the purpose of considering it, being all that have yet decided on the subject

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21180
Author
Coxe, Tench,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1788
Responsibility
by an American citizen ; to which is added, a speech of the Honorable James Wilson, Esquire, on the same subject.
Author
Coxe, Tench,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr. ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description
33, [3] p. ; 22 cm, bound to 25 cm (8vo)
Notes
Attributed to Tench Coxe by Evans.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ [E]² (last leaf blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signaturea at top of title page.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address, etc. recommendations to the states, by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783; Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
United States.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards.
Additional Author
Wilson, James,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1788
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The history and practice of civil actions, particularly in the Court of Common Pleas : being an historical account of the parts and order of judicial proceedings, viz. writs, appearances, bail, declarations, pleadings, issues, trials, verdicts, judgments, error and costs : with the several changes introduced into these proceedings and practice by the several statutes of amendments, jeofails, and costs : and containing a general account of the principles of special-pleading in all civil suits : with an introduction on the constitution of England

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21064
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Edition
The third edition,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Responsibility
by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Uniform Title
History and practice of the Court of Common Pleas
Edition
The third edition,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's law printers for P. Uriel ... and E. Brooke ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description
[380] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Unpaged, with the exception of p. i of the introduction.
Signatures: A⁴ b-c⁸ d⁸( -d8) B-X⁸ Y1 Z².
Includes index.
LC copy has marginal manscript annotations in the front portions of the text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 303 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Common Pleas.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Civil procedure.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
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The nature and extent of the business in the Office of Pleas in Lincoln's-Inn: both ancient and modern: with the rules and methods of practice, precedents, reports of cases, and other matters in use there ... In two volumes

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Author
Burton, Philip,
Date of Publication
1770.
Call Number
Book 881 1770
Author
Burton, Philip,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall,
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
18 preliminary leaves, 451, [108] pages 21 cm
Notes
Of this edition, volume 1 only published.
1791 edition published under title: Practice of the Office of Pleas ...
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck former owner Thomas Chapman.
Book number 881 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Exchequer.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Civil procedure.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bining)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 881 1770
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Journal of the first session of the Senate of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of New-York, March 4th, 1789, and the thirteenth year of the independence of the said states

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
--M, DCC, LXXX, IX.-- [1789]
Call Number
Bookk 837 1789
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Greenleaf,
Date of Publication
--M, DCC, LXXX, IX.-- [1789]
Physical Description
172 pages ; 34 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-2U².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 837 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
1789.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1809.
New York (N.Y.) - Imprints (Thomas Greenleaf)
United States.
Labels (Provenance)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
No spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
United States. Congress. Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 837 1789
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The new instructor clericalis : stating the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of the Court of King's Bench, with directions for commencing and defending actions, entering judgments, suing out executions, and proceeding in error, to which are added, the rules of the court, modern precedents and several other matters necessary to be known by attornies and their clerks, in town and country, the whole illustrated by useful notes and observations from the best authorities

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22128
Author
Impey, John,
Edition
4th ed.
Date of Publication
1788.
Call Number
Book 983 1788
Responsibility
by John Impey.
Author
Impey, John,
Edition
4th ed.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author by His Majesty's law printers,
Date of Publication
1788.
Physical Description
629, [56] pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 983 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Court rules - Great Britain.
Civil procedure.
Court rules.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 983 1788
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