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An abridgment of the first part of my Ld. Coke's Institutes : with some additions explaining many of the difficult cases, and shewing in what points the law has been altered by late resolutions and acts of parliament

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Author: Coke, Edward,

Edition: The fifth edition, to which is now added a large index in the nature of an analysis of the most general heads.

Date of Publication: MDCCXXXVI [1736]

Call Number: Book 508a 1736

Responsibility: by William Hawkins, serjeant at law.

Author: Coke, Edward,

Uniform Title: First part of the institutes of the laws of England

Edition: The fifth edition, to which is now added a large index in the nature of an analysis of the most general heads.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.), for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXXVI [1736]

Physical Description: vi, 501, [99] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Notes: Hawkins's abridgment of the commentary of Sir Edward Coke on Littleton from Coke's First part of the institutes of the laws of England. Hawkins omits Coke's reprint of Littleton's Tenures and such parts of Coke as were obsolete when the work was compiled. Cf., J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliog.; Signatures: Aâ´( -A4) B-2CÂ¹Â².; Publisher's advertisements, "Books sold by T. Osborne in Grays Inn," on final leaf (leaf 2C12).; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 508a as assigned by Yeates.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; ESTC

Subjects: Land tenure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Land tenure; Real property.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Littleton, Thomas,; Hawkins, William,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 508a 1736

An historical account of the original and nature, as well as the law of devises and revocations

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Author: Gilbert, Geoffrey,

Date of Publication: 1739.

Call Number: Book 214 1739

Responsibility: by a ... Learned judge.

Author: Gilbert, Geoffrey,

Place of Publication: [London]

Publisher: Walthoe,

Date of Publication: 1739.

Physical Description: xii, 174 pages [28] 19 cm

Notes: Later editions issued under title: The law of devices, revocations and last wills.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 214 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Inheritance and succession - England; Inheritance and succession.; England.; History.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 214 1739

An institute of the laws of England, or, The laws of England in their natural order, according to common use : published for the direction of young beginners or students in the law, and of others that desire to have a general knowledge in our common and statute laws : in four books

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Author: Wood, Thomas,

Edition: The sixth edition.

Date of Publication: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]

Call Number: Book 713 1738

Alternate Title: Institute of the laws of England; Laws of England in their natural order, according to common use

Responsibility: by Thomas Wood ...

Author: Wood, Thomas,

Edition: The sixth edition.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer Esq.) for Henry Lintot ... and for Thomas Osborne ...,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]

Physical Description: [2], xi, [1], 663, [35] p. 37 cm (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: [a]Â² b-cÂ² d1 B-4Pâ´ 4Q-4ZÂ² 5A1.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 713 as assigned by Yeates.; English short title catalogue,

Subjects: Law - England - Early works to 1800.; Law.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 713 1738

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Object ID: MG0205

Date Range: 1699-1934

includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Description: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection provides insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and details of legal business from 1743-1870. These documents have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society over many years. Collection includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books.

Date Range: 1699-1934

Year Range From: 1699

Year Range To: 1934

Date of Accumulation: 1699-1934

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 05

People: Atkinson, Matthew; Bausman, William; Bond, Phineas; Bowman, Valentine; Bradford, W.; Brien, Edward; Burd, Edward; Carson, John; Coates, Samuel; Conyngham, David; Conyngham, Elizabeth Yeates; Conyngham, Redmond; Dallas, George M.; Davis, Jonathan; Davison, Benjamin; Dickey, Robert; Duncannon, Thomas; Edward, Thomas; Erter, Henry; Ewing, John; Ferguson, John; Fohren, Michael; Gibson, John; Gillchrist, John; Godcharles, Frederic A.; Graff, Conrad; Gregg, Andrew; Grubb, Peter; Hamilton, Charles; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, John; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hand, Jasper; Hayes, A. L.; Henry, John; Hess, David; Jago, John; Javin, William; Keeportz, Daniel; Kittera, William; Kremer, Philip; Krug, Jacob; Kurtz, William; Lindsay, William; Loudersmith, Wendel; Lyon, Joseph Barnet; Magaw, David; Marshall, J.; McClellan, John; McKean, Thomas; Millar, John; Miller, Michael; Minich, Henry; Muhlenberg, William Augustus; Nesbitt, John; Nissley, Martin; Ord, John; Philips, David; Postlethwaite, John; Poultney, Thomas; Price, Eli K.; Probst, John; Ramsey, Robert; Rawle, William; Riegart, Adam; Rine, Widow; Ross, George; Ross, J.; Scott, James; Sergeant, Thomas; Shippen, Edward; Shippen, Evans Wallis; Shippen, Robert; Simpson, John; Smith, Charles; Smith, Mary Yeates; Stein, Charles; Steinman, Fredrick; Stevenson, Henry; Stewart, Charles; Sturmii, Johannis Christophorus; Thomas, John; Tilghman, Benjamin C.; Tilghman, E.; Tilghman, Edward; Tilghman, William; Tilghman, William B.; Towson, William; Underwood, John; Wallace, George; Wallace, William; Waln, Nicholas; Warden, J.; White, William; Wickersham, Elijah; Willson, Samuel; Yeates, Catharine; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, Jasper, Jr.; Yeates, John, Jr.; Yeates, John, Sr.; Yeates, Margaret; Yeates, Sarah Burd "Sally"; Zantzinger, Paul

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Family records; Law libraries; Letters; Library catalogs; Wills

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Family records; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; Wills

Extent: 6 boxes, 49 folders, 13 books, 6 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0205

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Yeates, Aungst Collection (MG0206); Yeates, Carson Collection (MG0207); George M. Steinman Collection (MG0184); Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library; Objects in the Curatorial Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection (MG0205), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions noted at the item level. The letter copybooks in Folders 31 and 36 are restricted--please use the transcriptions available in the library.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-205

Classification: MG0205

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-34 and Books 1-2 were processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to PP on 26 March 2022.

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The attorney's practice in the Court of King's Bench : or, An introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that court, as it now stands under the regulation of several late acts of Parliament, rules and determinations of the said court : with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, settled or drawn by counsel ; and a complete index to the whole

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Author: Richardson, Robert,

Date of Publication: 1739.

Call Number: Book 432 1739

Responsibility: by a Gentleman of the Inner Temple.

Author: Richardson, Robert,

Place of Publication: [London]

Publisher: In the Savoy : Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for T. Woodward ...,

Date of Publication: 1739.

Physical Description: [2], 240 pages

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 432 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Civil procedure.; Criminal procedure.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Nutt, Elizabeth,; Nutt, Richard,; Sayer, Edward,; Woodward, Thomas,; Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 432 1739

A brief narrative of the case and tryal of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New-York weekly journal

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Author: Zenger, John Peter,

Date of Publication: 1736.

Call Number: Book 467 1736

Author: Zenger, John Peter,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Printed and sold by John Peter Zenger,

Date of Publication: 1736.

Physical Description: 42 (i.e. 40) pages ; 29 cm

Notes: Caption title.; "At a Supream Court of judicature held for the province of New-York, at the City hall of the City of New-York, on Wednesday, the 16th day of April, 1735"--Page 10.; Error in paging: no. 15-16 omitted.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 467 as assigned by Yeates.; At top of first page: Presented to the Lancaster Law Library by Samuel Evans of Columbia, Pa, Feb 28th, 1873.; Evans

Subjects: Zenger, John Peter, - 1697-1746; Trials (Seditious libel) - New York (State) - New York.; Freedom of the press - New York (State); Freedom of the press.; Trials (Seditious libel); New York (State); New York (State) - New York.; Trials, litigation, etc.; Three-quarters leather on linen boards.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,; Evans, Samuel.

Additional Corporate Author: New York (Colony). Supreme Court of Judicature.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 467 1736

Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery ... [1660-1697]

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Edition: 3rd ed., carefully corr. from the errors of former impressions,

Date of Publication: 1735.

Call Number: Book 693 1735

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Edition: 3rd ed., carefully corr. from the errors of former impressions,

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by C. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Walthoe,

Date of Publication: 1735.

Physical Description: 3 volumes in 1 ; 33 cm

Notes: Pt. 2, 2nd edition; pt. 3, 4th edition.; Title of pt. 3: Select cases in the High Court of Chancery, solemnly argued and decreed by the late Lord Chancellor, with the assistance of the judges, with an exact table to the whole ...; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 693 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 693 1735

The civil law in its natural order, together with the publick law

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Author: Domat, Jean,

Edition: The second edition, with additions.

Date of Publication: MDCCXXXVII [1737]

Call Number: Book 714 1737; Book 715 1737

Responsibility: written in French by Monsieur Domat, the late French King's Advocate in the Presidial Court of Clermont in France, and translated into English by William Strahan, LL. D. Advocate in Doctors Commons ; with additional remarks on some material differences between the civil law and the law of England.

Author: Domat, Jean,

Uniform Title: Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel.

Edition: The second edition, with additions.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, G. Strahan, J. and J. Pemberton, R. Ware, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley and J. Wood, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, and R. Hett,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXXVII [1737]

Physical Description: 2 volumes ; 36 cm (fol.)

Notes: In this second edition, vol. 1 ends on p.670 and the last numbered page in vol. 2 is p.676 [i.e. 706], pp. 700-706 being misnumbered pp. 670-676; after p. 676 comes the unpaginated index.; In double columns with marginalia.; Includes index and errata at end of vol. 2.; Engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 714 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC,; Bibliothecae ecclesiae Cicestrensis librorum catalogus (1871),

Subjects: Civil law - Early works to 1800.; Civil law.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Bindingh); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Strahan, William; Freeland, James Bennett,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Chichester Cathedral,

Place: Great Britain England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 714 1737; Book 715 1737

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An abridgment of the first part of my Ld. Coke's Institutes : with some additions explaining many of the difficult cases, and shewing in what points the law has been altered by late resolutions and acts of parliament

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21474

An historical account of the original and nature, as well as the law of devises and revocations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21010

An institute of the laws of England, or, The laws of England in their natural order, according to common use : published for the direction of young beginners or students in the law, and of others that desire to have a general knowledge in our common and statute laws : in four books

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A brief narrative of the case and tryal of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New-York weekly journal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21351

Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery ... [1660-1697]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21747

The civil law in its natural order, together with the publick law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21764