A treatise on the laws of England attributed to John Breton or Britton, but largely based on "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae" by Henry de Bracton.
Jurisdictions, or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseys, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents of essoyns, imparlance, view, of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance, of divers other things very profitable for all students of inns of court and chancery, and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the said courts : with the return and forms of several original and judicial writs now in use, relating to writs of error, writs of false judgment, and other proceedings of frequent use in the courts at Westminster
March's actions for slander, and arbitrements. : The first, being a collection, under certain grounds and heads, of what words are actionable in the law, and what not: where an action de scandalis magnatum will lie: and of the nature of a libel. The other, a discourse, shewing what arbitrements are good in law, and what not: together with directions and presidents of conditions to perform awards, indentures of submission to awards, with covenants to perform the same; arbitrements of lands which the parties covenant to perform, or of debt, &c. upon submission by bond, and variety of pleadings therein. As also, certain quaeries, or doubtful cases, under proper titles, with the books cited pro & contra; very useful for all students in the law
Modus tenendi Parliamentum, or, The old manner of holding Parliaments in England : extracted out of our ancient records, with certain municipal rights and customes of England : together with some priviledges of Parliament, the manner and method how laws are there enacted by passing of bills : collected out of the journal of the House of Commons
"The mannner [sic] how statutes are enacted in Parliament by passing of bills" (p. [121]-220) has special t.p., with imprint: London : Printed for Abel Roper, 1670.
Signatures: AⴠB-K¹² L² (A1 blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of introductory page.
LHS copy lacks title page.
Book number 469 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
Officina brevium : select and approved forms of judicial writs, and other process, with their retorns and entries in the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster : as also special pleadings to writs of scire facias
Les Reports des cases argue & adjudge in le temps del' roy Edward de Second, et auxy memoranda del' Exchequer en temps le roy Edward le Primer : Solonq ; les ancient manuscripts ore remanent en les maines de Sir Jehan' Maynard, chevaler, serjeant de la ley al Sa Tres Excellent Majesty le roy Charles le Second. Ovesq ; un perfect table des matters en les dits cases de temps del' roy Edward le Second, colligee per le mesme serjeant
Printed by G. Sawbridge, T. Roycroft, and W. Rawlins, assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins,
Date of Publication
1678.
Physical Description
[2], 685, [64], 43 pages ; 39 cm (4to)
Notes
Text in law french.
Known as Part 1 of Maynard's edition. cf. Legal biblio. Brit. commonwealthnatition, 1:312.
Signatures (summary): A-M/2 B2 C-4R/4 A-S/2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 786 as assigned by Yeates.
LHO spine labels: volume 1: Reports, Edward II - volume 2 Reports Edward 3d part 1; - volume 3 Reports Edward 3d part 2 - volume 4 Reports Henry 6 part lst; - volume 5: Reports Henry 6, part 2nd; Edward 4th - volume 6: Reports Edward 5th, Richard 3, Henry th7th & 8th.
Reports of divers choice cases in law taken by those late and most judicious prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough, Esquires
Reports of Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough, Esquires; the first and second part
Reports of divers famous cases in law as they were argued, as well upon the bench by the reverend and learned judges Coke, Flemming, Hobard, Haughton, Warburton, Winch, Nichols, Foster, Walmesly, Yelverton, Montague, Doderidge, and diverse others, in their respective places, as also at the barr, by the then judicious serjeants and barristers of special note ...
Yeates's signature on title page under struck Joseph Ross.
Book number 489 as assigned by Yeates.
Printed and hand-writted marginalia.
Handwritten notes on front flyleaf, back flyleaf and inside back cover.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
Reports: or New cases : [King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1639-1642] with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation. And the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
