A Digest of the laws of the United States of America : being a complete system, (alphabetically arranged) of all the public acts of Congress now in force-from the commencement of the federal government, to the end of the third session of the Fifth Congress, which terminated in March 1799, inclusive
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law ; as also the law and practice , under the proper heads and titles: together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time. Adapted to the use of barristers, students and practicers of the law, etc
Printed for James Williams, at No. 5, in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
MDCC:XXIII (1778)
Physical Description
1 volume (no pagination) ; 40 cm.
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Loose inside back cover: an advertisement of J. E. Barr & Co, 27East King Street, Lancaster, Pa. for the Sunday School Department,(60 x 45 cm.) undated.
The history and antiquities of the four Inns of Court, namely, the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn : and of the nine Inns of Chancery, to wit, Clifford's Inn, Clement's Inn, Lion's Inn, New Inn, Strand Inn, Furnival's Inn, Thavies Inn, Staple Inn, and Barnard's Inn : also of Serjeant's Inn in Fleet-Street and Chancery-Lane, and Scroop's Inn : containing every particular circumstance relative to each of them, comprized in the well known and justly celebrated work, written by Sir William Dugdale, and published in folio in the years 1666, 1671, and 1680, under the title of Origines juridicales, &c. : to which is subjoined an appendix, containing several modern orders made by the Society of Lincoln's Inn
the whole is published by desire of some members of Parliament, in order to point out the abuses in the government of the Inns of Court and Chancery ...
The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations
The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.
Blackstone's Commentaries : with notes of reference, to the Constitution and laws, of the federal government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia : in five volumes, with an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view of the laws of Virginia, as a member of the federal union
Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small ... Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1803.
Physical Description
5 v. : geneal. tables (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
"This edition by 'St. George Tucker ... ' follows the text of the ninth edition, London, 1783. It contains a selection of Christian's notes, marked with his name"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938.
Pagination of the Commentaries is that of another edition.
Signatures: v. 1: [A]â´ B-4Gâ´; v. 2: [A]â´ B-4Fâ´ (4F4 blank); v. 3: pi² A-5Aâ´ 5B1, IV leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 4: pi² A-4Lâ´ [4M]1; v. 5: pi² A-4Gâ´ 5A-5Fâ´ 5G².
Errata: v. 1, leaf 4G4; v. 4, leaf [4M]1.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 350, 351, 352, 353, 354 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cohen, M.L. Bibliography of Early American law,
Eller, C.S. William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
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
Laws of the thirteenth General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the third sitting, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine
Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, from July A.D. 1789 to June A.D. 1793; with a variety of cases anterior to that period. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court
V. 1. June 1789-June 1793 -- v. 2. June 1793-June 1798; being four years and a half, or nine circuits.
Summary
"With a variety of cases anterior to that period [1764-1789]. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court."--T.p.
A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c
The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
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
