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
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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.
v. : maps (part fold.) diagrs., geneal. tables., 25 cm.
Notes
Each volume has special t.p.
LCHS has v.9 - American colonial documents to 1776.
First published 1955, reprinted 1968.
Includes bibliographies.
African American resources at Lancaster ounty Historical Society
Contents
v.l. c.500-1042.--v. 2. 1042-1189, edited by D.C. Douglas and G.W. Greenaway.--v. 3. 1189-1327.-v. 4. 1327--1485.--v. 5. 1485-1558.--v. 6. 1558-1603.--v. 7. 1603-1660.--v. 8. 1660-1714, edited by A. Browning.--v. 9.American colonial documents to 1776, edited by M. Jensen.--v. 10. 1714-1783, edited by D.B. Horn and M. Ransome.--v. 11. 1783-1832.--v. 12.pt.1. 1833-1874, edited by G.M. Young and W.D. Handcock; pt.2. 1874-1914.
The charter of Pennsylvania (4 March 1681).--William Penn: Some account of the province of Pennsilvania (1681).--William Penn: Preface to the first Frame of Government (1642).--The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (28 October 1701).--Pennsylvania Flour Inspection Law (20 March 1725).--Pennsylvania law regulating conditions on immigrant ships (27 January1750).--Protest of German Quakers against slavery (18 April 1688).--Benjamin Franklin: proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania (1749).--Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: account of the Paxton Boys (1-7 February 1764).--Matthew Smith and James Gibson: remonstrance of the Pennsylvania frontiersmen (13 February 1764).--Philadelphia opposition to the tea act.--Pennsylvania assembly instructions against independence (9 November 1775).
Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq ; Thomas Bever, at the Hand and Star within Temple Bar.,
Date of Publication
1706-1715.
Physical Description
5 volumes in 6 ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Mixed set: v.1, 6h ed., 1721; v.2, 4th ed., 1715; v.3, 3d ed., 1713; v.4, 2nd ed., 1717; v.5:1, [1st] ed., 1713; v.5:2, [1st] ed., 1713; v.6 ("Sixth part" also called "Vol. VII"), [1st] ed., 1714. -- Imprint taken from v.1; publisher varies.
Subtitle varies: v.1: Directing clerks both in the court of Queen's-Bench and Common-Pleas: in the abbreviation and contraction of words ... in the filling up and suing out writs of first process, in drawing declarations, making up issues, ingrossing records, entring[sic] judgments, and suing out executions: also pleas and demurrers, &c. ... ; v.2: Being a collection of choice and usual precedents for declarations in the King's-Bench and Common Pleas ... ; v.3: Being a collection of choice and useful precedents for pleadings ... ; vols.4-5: Being a continuance of bars ("barrs" v.4) and other pleadings ....
On t-ps of v.3-5: by R.G., a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; in v.1, "To the reader" subscribed: R.G.; on t.p. v.2: By the author of the first part.
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
Modern cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's-Bench at Westminster : in the reign of Her late Majesty Q. Anne, in the time when Sir John Holt sat Chief-Justice there
