Cases in crown law, determined by the Twelve judges, by the Court of King's bench, and by commissioners of Oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery, from the fourth year of George the Second to the twenty-ninth year of George the Third. [1730-1789]
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for W. Strahan, J. Pote, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman, G. Robinson, T. Cadel, J. White, W. Flexney, E. Brooke, J. Hayes, M. Hingeston, W. Fox, and Wheildon and Co.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXX [1780]
Physical Description
5 v. ; 37 cm (fol.)
Notes
Vol. 5 has misprinted imprint date of MDCLXXX.
Vol. 1: xii, 670 p.; v. 2: vii, [1], 699, [1] p.; v. 3: viii, 588 p.; v. 4: viii, 583, [1] p.; v. 5: viii. 752 p.
Includes indexes.
LC copy has binder's title: Comyns's Digest ... 2nd edition.
The first edition of "La graunde abridgement"--English Short Title Catalogue.
The title "La graunde abridgement" taken from the English Short Title Catalogue.
Probably printed by John Rastell (v. 1) and Wynken De Worde (v. 2-3), beginning about 1514. Cf. Law library journal, v. 51, 1958, p. [100]-116 and ESTC. The colophon of v. 3 is dated 1516.
"Finis tocius istius op[er]is finit[us] xxi die Dicembr[is] A[nn]o d[omi]ni Millecimo qui[n]ge[n]tesimo sextodecimo"--Colophon.
Title page of vol. 1 delineates a king upon the throne with "Prima pars huius libri" printed above; vol. 2 has title page with the royal coat of arms and "Sequitur secunda pars" printed above; vol. 3 has title page with the royal coat of arms and "Ultima pars huius libri" printed above.
LC copy vol. 3 t.p. has "The price of the whole boke (.xl. s.) Whych boke conteynyth iii grete volumes," is printed below "Ultima pars huius libri."
LCHS copy lacking title page of volume 2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pagebelow another signature.
Book number 792 as assigned by Yeates.
"Contains a digest of all the cases in the Year-books, down to the 21 Hen. VII ... as well as cases from the reigns of Rich. II, Edw. I and II, Hen. III, and a number of readings and original authorities no where else to be found"-J.G. Marvin. Legal bibliography, 1847.
Lettered: Browne's reports. 1; Browne's reports. 2; v. 2 has title: Reports of cases adjudged in the District court for the city and county of Philadelphia, and the Courts of common pleas of Pennsylvania.
Includes also miscellaneous reports of other Pennsylvania courts and United States Circuit and District courts.
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; from Hilary term, the 14th of George III, 1774, to Trinity term, the 18th of George III, 1778, (both inclusive.)
Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut : from the year 1785 to May 1788 : with some determinations in the Supreme Court of Errors
