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The spirit of the bankrupt laws. Originally compiled by Edward Green, Esq. formerly a Commissioner. Wherein are principally considered, the I. Declaring the party bankrupt. 2. Seizing his Estate, and summoning him to surrender. 3. Receiving Proof of the Debts of his Creditors. 4. Appointing, chusing, and removing Assignees. 5. Selling and conveying the Estate and Effects. 6. The examining and committing the Bankrupt, his Wife, and others. 7. Certifying his Conformity. 8. Dividing the Estate. 9. Ordering bankrupt his allowance, and Overplus. Which are fully discussed and explained, with the Authority and Power of the Commissioners to commit, particularly from the Determinations of Earls Hardwicke, Mansfield, and of the present Judges. Also, precedents, instructions, and a copious index

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Author
Green, Edward
Edition
The fourth edition, corrected, improved, and enlarged, by a late commissioner.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXX. [1780]
Call Number
Boolk 1007 1780
Author
Green, Edward
Edition
The fourth edition, corrected, improved, and enlarged, by a late commissioner.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's law-printers, for Edward Brooke, successor to Messrs. Worrall and Tovey, in Bell-Yard, Temple Bar.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXX. [1780]
Physical Description
xxiv, iv, 518, [32] pages ; 22 cm, 8Ê»
Notes
With an index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page by that of strunk former owner.
Book numer 1007 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Binding: half sheep and orange and grey marbled paper over boards, red lettering piece, gold spine titles, late 18th/early 19th century.
Subjects
Bankruptcy - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Bankruptcy.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Bindint)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Newcastle and Gateshead Law Institute,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Boolk 1007 1780
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The modern practice of the High Court of Chancery : methodized and digested in a manner wholly new : interspersed with variety of the most approved and modern forms of practical precedents incidental to every suit in the progress of it, from the original bill to the decree, comprising a system of practical knowledge, according to the course of the Court as at present established

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Author
Hinde, Robert,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Call Number
Book 511 1786
Responsibility
by Robert Hinde ...
Author
Hinde, Robert,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for Messrs. E. Lynch, G. Burnet, W. Colles, R. Montcrieffe, J. Beatty, J. Davis, R. Marchbank, and J. Jones,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description
[4], 622, [18] p. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A² B-2S⁸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 511 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue,
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
Ireland Dublin.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 511 1786
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A complete digest of the theory, laws, and practice of insurance : compiled from the best authorities in different languages, which are quoted and referred to throughout the work ; and arranged in alphabetical order, under many select heads, with ample references, and a general index ; affording immediate and full information, on every distinct matter, question, or point

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Author
Weskett, John.
Date of Publication
1781.
Call Number
Book 196 1781
Alternate Title
Weskett on insurance
Theory, laws, and practice of insurance
Responsibility
by John Weskett.
Author
Weskett, John.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Frys, Couchman, & Collier,
Date of Publication
1781.
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 196 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Insurance law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Marine insurance - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Insurance law.
Marine insurance.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Early works.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 196 1781
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An essay on the learning respecting the creation and execution of powers : and also respecting the nature and effect of leasing powers in which the doctrine of the judgment delivered by the Court of King's bench, in the case of Pugh and the Duke of Leeds, and the principal authorities for and against it, are considered

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Author
Powell, John Joseph,
Date of Publication
1787.
Call Number
Book 288 1787
Responsibility
by John Joseph Powell.
Author
Powell, John Joseph,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
P. Uriel and T. Whieldon,
Date of Publication
1787.
Physical Description
xx, 582, [26] pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 288 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Powers (Law)
Leases - Great Britain.
Leases.
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 288 1787
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Essays upon I. The Law of Evidence. II. New Trials. III. Special Verdicts. IV. Trials at Bar. and V. Repleaders. In three volumes. By John Morgan, of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law

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Author
Morgan, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
Call Number
Book 1001 1789
Book 1002 1789
Book 1003 1789
Author
Morgan, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatureat top of title page.
Book numbers 1001, 1002, and 1003 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Contents
Vol. 1: Containing the law of evidence. -- vol. 2: Containing the first VIII. Divisions of the IId. Essay. -- vol. 3: Containing the IXth Division of Essay II. with Essays III. IV. and V.
Subjects
Evidence (Law) - Great Britain.
Jury - Great Britain.
New trials - Great Britain.
Trial practice - Great Britain.
Evidence (Law)
Jury.
New trials.
Trial practice.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
University of St. Andrews. Library. Copyright Deposit Collection.
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1001 1789
Book 1002 1789
Book 1003 1789
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Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of November, in the year ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, for the purpose of reviewing, and if they see occasion, altering and amending, the constitution of this state

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21603
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention
Date of Publication
1789 [1790]
Call Number
Book 585 1789
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Jun. in Fourth-Street, between Market-Street and Arch-Street,
Date of Publication
1789 [1790]
Physical Description
222 pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 585 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia, Henry Miller, 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...Philadelpha: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennshvania...Philadelphia: Zacharia Poulson, 1789 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,..Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, 1790 - Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present constitution...Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1808.
Subjects
Pennsylvania.
Constitutional conventions - Pennsylvania.
Constitutional law - Pennsylvania.
Constitutional conventions.
Constitutional law.
Three-quarters leather on blue boards (Binding)
No spine label (Binding]
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 585 1789
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The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index

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Author
Sheridan, John.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number
Book 985 1785
Responsibility
by John Sheridan ... ; with the assistance of other gentlemen of the law.
Author
Sheridan, John.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Flexney ... and J. Walker ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description
[3], 16-614, [18] p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² D-2Z⁴ ²2A-²2Z⁴ 3A-3K⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 985 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Courts - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Criminal procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Court rules - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Courts
Civil procedure.
Court rules.
Criminal procedure.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Early works.
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 985 1785
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Cases in crown law, determined by the Twelve judges, by the Court of King's bench, and by commissioners of Oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery, from the fourth year of George the Second to the twenty-ninth year of George the Third. [1730-1789]

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Date of Publication
1789.
Call Number
Book 841 1789
Responsibility
By Thomas Leach ...
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by P. Byrne,
Date of Publication
1789.
Physical Description
viii, 448 [22] pages 22 cm
Notes
LHO copy wants title page.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature on Observation page.
Book number 941 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title label (Binding)
Additional Author
Leach, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 841 1789
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Eunomus, or, Dialogues concerning the law and constitution of England : with an essay on dialogue

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Author
Wynne, Edward,
Edition
The second edition.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number
Book 209 1785
Book 210 1785
Book 211 1785
Book 212 1785
Alternate Title
Eunomus
Dialogues concerning the law and constitution of England.
Responsibility
by Edward Wynne ...
Author
Wynne, Edward,
Edition
The second edition.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Benjamin White and Son ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description
4 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 1: 16, xci, [3], 92 p.; v. 2: [2], 264 p.; v. 3: [2], 338 p.; v. 4: [2], xvi, 204, [14] p.
LC copy has inscription: J. Freeland, 1790; Jno. Freeland.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book numbers 209-212 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Dialogue - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional law.
Dialogue.
Law.
Great Britain.
Early works
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 209 1785
Book 210 1785
Book 211 1785
Book 212 1785
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The law and practice of distresses and replevin

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Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Edition
The second edition, with considerable illustrations /
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXX [1780]
Call Number
Book 993 1780
Responsibility
by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert ; to which is added, an appendix of precedents.
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Uniform Title
Law of replevins
Edition
The second edition, with considerable illustrations /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's law-printers, for Edward Brooke, successor to Messrs. Worrall and Tovey ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXX [1780]
Physical Description
viii, 286, [48] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A⁴ B-Y⁸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 993 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Distress (Law) - Great Britain.
Replevin - Great Britain.
Distress (Law)
Replevin.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Barrister at law.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 993 1780
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