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.
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 law of evidence : wherein all the cases that have yet been printed in any of our law books or tryals, and that in any wise relate to points of evidence, are collected and methodically digested under their proper heads : with necessary tables to the whole
[Les reports des divers select matters & resolutions des reverend judges & sages del ley : touchant & concernant mults principal points occurrent estre debate per eux: en le several reignes de les tres-hault & excellent princes, le roys Hen. 8 & Edw. 6 & le roignes Mar. & Eliz
collect & report per tres-reverend judge, Sr. Jaques Dyer chivaler ; jades chief justice del Common Bank en le temps du roigne Elizabeth. A que est novelment addes mult mille de references al plusors livers del common ley cybien auncient come modern ovesq ; grand nombre de cases ne unques devant imprimeè. Ove troice tables perfaicts, le primer conteinant le principal matter in le dit liure. Le second le nosmes des touts le cases contenus en mesme. Le tierce le nosmes des cases novelment add en le margent del liure].
[Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Samuel Keble at the Turks-Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street],
Modern reports: or, modern cases in law and equity. : In two parts. Part I. Cases in the King's Bench ... Part II. Cases in Chancery. To which are added some special cases on appeals. Volumes VIII. IX
The 2nd ed., altered and much improved ... by an eminent hand.
Place of Publication
London : For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, J. Rivington, W. Johnston, W. Owen, and P. Uriel
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers ;
Date of Publication
MDCCLXIX.
Physical Description
[416]; [196] pages ; folio
Notes
Signatures: pi² a² B-5L²; [A] -3C².
Unpaginated throughout.
Vol. 9 has separate register, and title page reading: 'Modern reports: or, cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery, . To which are added some special cases on appeals. Volume IX. The second edition, corrected and improved.'.
Also issued with a collective title page for 12 volumes: "Modern reports: or, Select cases adjudged in the Courts of Kng's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, since the Restoration of King Charles the Second, to the end of the reign of King George the First. In twelve volumes, (as cited by C. Viner, esq; in his abridgment) the first seven corrected, and many references added from the reports. The fourth edition. By Danby Pickering ... Vol. 8, 9. The second edition, altered and much improved from many errors in the former, by an eminent hand. Vol. 10,11,12. By R. Lucas, esq; and others, with tables to each volume of the principal matters, &c. London: Printed by His Majesty's law-printers; and sold by J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's Inn. M DCC LXIX."
Modus intrandi placita generalia : the entring clerk's introduction : being a collection of such precedents of declarations, and other pleadings, with process as well mesn as judicial, as are generally used in every days practice : with notes and observations thereupon composed, for the benefit of the students of the common law of England, as also of the attorneys, entring clerks, and sollicitors of the courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, acquainting them with the rudiments of clerkship, and such general pleadings and process as are used at this day in the courts of record at Westminster
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires for J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 2 has no ed. statement.
Vol. 1: [24], 406, [34] p.; v. 2: [8], 315, [15] p.
Bookseller's advertisement: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck owner.
Book numbers 1024 and 1025 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
The nature and practice of real actions : in their writs and process, both original and judicial ; together with some records in the court ... of the County Palatine of Chester
written in Latin by the Baron Pufendorf, counsellor of State to his late Swedish majesty, and to the late King of Prussia. Done into English by Basil Kennett, D.D. late president of Corpus Christi College in Oxford. To which are added all the large notes of Mr. Barbeyrac, translated from the best edition ; together with large tables to the whole.
Page numbers 40-43 omitted in second group of paging; numbers 317-320 omitted and 477-480 duplicated in third group. Text and register continuous despite pagination.
Text chiefly in two columns.
"An historical and critical account of the science of morality" has separate title page ("Osborne" here spelled "Osborn"), pagination and register.
Publisher’s preface (see unnumbered page 4 at beginning) names two other translators as the Reverend Mr. Percivale (translated Book V) and the Reverend Mr. Itchiner (translated Book VIII).
An ornament used (unnumbered page 22 at end) is signed: "Imprim Sam Aris".
Praxis almae curiae cancellariae : in two volumes : being a collection of precedents, by bill and answer, plea and demurrer, in causes of the greatest moment (wherein equity hath been allowed) which have been commenced in the High Court of Chancery, for more than 30 years last past : with appeals (in several cases of great difficulty) to the House of Peers in Parliament, and the proceedings thereupon : also, a compleat collection of all the writs and process concerning the same, together with a praeliminary discourse, by way of rules, succinctly and methodically drawn up, containing the practice of the said court, in every particular branch of the equitable part thereof
