by Richard Peters, comprising also some decisions in the same court, by the late Francis Hopkinson, to which are added cases determined in other districts of the United States. With an appendix containing --The laws of Oleron.--The laws of Wisbuy.--The laws of the Hanse towns.--The Marine ordinances of Louis XIV.--A treatise on the rights and duties of owners, freighters, and masters of ships, and of mariners: and the laws of the United States relative to mariners.
Published by William P. Farrand; Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Preface signed: Richard Peters, Jun.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
On verso of front flyleaf: "Affectionely presented to Judge Yeates - by his old & Sincere] Friend, Classmate, and Fellow Student, Richard Peters, Aug. 1807."
1st American ed., carefully corr. from the London copy.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed for Alsop Brannan and Alsop,
Date of Publication
1808.
Physical Description
5 volumes ; 24 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 343, 344, 345, 346, and 347 as assigned by Yeates.
Vol. 5, index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
V. 4. Comprising part of vol. v and the whole of vol. vi of the English edition, and containing 36. Recovery, 37. Alienation by custom, 38. Devise -- v. 5. Being vol. vii of the English edition, and containing an index of the names of the cases abridged and cited and an index of the principal matters.
Forensic eloquence. : Sketches of trials in Ireland for high treason, etc. : Including the speeches of Mr. Curran at length: accompanied by certain papers illustrating the history and present state of that country. : [Two lines in Latin]
"Mr. O'Connor's address to the Irish nation."--Page 323-326.
"To the reader."--Page [327].
"Mr. Grattan's letter to the citizens of Dublin, on his declining to represent them in Parliament."--Page 328-351.
"Erratum"--Page 351.
"In the press, a collection of the most approved speeches and orations selected from English, Scotch, Irish, and American authors. With biographical anecdotes."--Page [352].
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : from the first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one
"Published under the authority of the Legislature, by Alexander James Dallas."
Includes index.
Each session has own title page, the session beginning 28 August 1797 printed by Hall and Sellers in Philadelphia in 1788 {pages183-527]; the session beginning 3 December 1799 printed by Francis and Robert Bailey in Lancaster in 1800 [pages 331-719 v,[21}.
Library copy has a second handwritten index of 33 pages.
The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States : on the act of the 3d, of April 1792, delivered in February term, 1805, in the case of the lessee of H.I. Huidekoper vs. James Douglass : after argument on questions stated by the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania district of the Third Circuit, for the judgement and decision of the Supreme Court
Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New Jersey; reported in conformity to the act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled "An act for the publication of law reports," passed the 12th day of March, A.D. 1806
Vol. 2-4 have title: Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the several courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania, held at the seat of the federal government.
Also known as: U.S. reports.
Imprint varies.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 368b, 369, 270, and 371 as assigned by Yeates.
