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
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-2C¹².
Publisher's advertisements, "Books sold by T. Osborne in Grays Inn," on final leaf (leaf 2C12).
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
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
Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme
"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.
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 ...
The common and statute law of England concerning trials in high-treason, misprision of treason, and in all other crimes and offences relating to the Crown : briefly collected out of the common and statute law-books and trials relating to that subject, alphabetically digested under proper titles, wherein the learning of appeals is at large set forth under the same head : the whole is brought down to the present year 1710, with an exact table
A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries
Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.
Edition
The 5th ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,
"To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index)
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].
Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.
