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A short treatise on the law of bills of exchange, cash bills, and promissory notes

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Author
Bayley, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Call Number
Book 936 1789
Responsibility
by John Bayley ...
Author
Bayley, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for E. Brooke ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description
vii, [1], 79, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-F⁸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 936 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat.,
Subjects
Negotiable instruments - Early works to 1800.
Bills of exchange - Early works to 1800.
Bills of exchange.
Negotiable instruments.
Early works.
Three-quarters leather on board (Binding)
No spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 936 1789
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Reports of cases taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the reigns of King Charles I., Charles II., and James II. : being special cases and most of them decreed with the assistance of the judges, and all of them referring to the register books : wherein are setled several points of equity, law, and practice : to which are added learned arguments relating to the antiquity of the said Court, its dignity, power, and jurisdiction : as also the great case between the Dutchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bathe : in two volumes

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The second edition, with large additions,
Date of Publication
1715.
Call Number
Book 522 1716
Book 521 1715
Book 520 1715
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The second edition, with large additions,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq., for J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1715.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
A third part was issued in 1716.
Vol. 1: [4], 288, 88, [28] p.; v. 2: [12], 437, [19] p.
Includes indexes.
Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] in front, p. [27-28] at end; v. 2: p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under two or three struck former owners; signature also on flyleaf.
Books numbers 520, 521, and 522 as assigned by Yeates,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue,
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full-blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 522 1716
Book 521 1715
Book 520 1715
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Reports of cases, upon appeals and writs of error, in the High Court of Parliament ; from the year 1701, to the year 1779. With tables, notes and references. By Josiah Brown, Esq. Barrister at law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21743
Author
Brown, Josiah,
Date of Publication
M DCC LXXIX - M DCC LXXXIII. [1779-1783]
Call Number
Book 679 1779
Book 680 1779
Book 681 1780
Book 682 1781
Book 683 1783
Book 684 1783
Book 685 1783
Author
Brown, Josiah,
Place of Publication
London : and sold by P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple Lane
Publisher
Printed, by His Majesty's Law-Printers, for the author ;
Date of Publication
M DCC LXXIX - M DCC LXXXIII. [1779-1783]
Physical Description
7 volumes ; 33 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 679-685 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - England.
Writ of error - England - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Writ of error.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 679 1779
Book 680 1779
Book 681 1780
Book 682 1781
Book 683 1783
Book 684 1783
Book 685 1783
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21014
Date of Publication
1717.
Call Number
Book 218 1717
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assignees of Edward Sayer Esq.) for R. Gosling ...,
Date of Publication
1717.
Physical Description
[16], 243, [77] p. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Published anonymously. Attributed to Geoffrey Gilbert. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Also attributed to William Nelson. Cf. BM.
Signatures: A-X⁸.
Advertisements on verso of p. [1-2] in front and p. [76-77] at end.
Errata on p. [75] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 218 as assigned by Yeates.
Small bookplate of David Franch affixed to back of front cover.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints
British Museum. General catalogue of printed books,
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Evidence (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Evidence (Law)
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather [Binding]
Gilt title on maroon spine label[Binding]
Name of David French embossed on both covers.
Additional Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Nelson, William,
Jefferson, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
French, David,
Additional Corporate Author
Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 218 1717
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Reports of that learned and judicious clerk, J. Gouldsborough, Esq., sometimes one of the protonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, or his collection of choice cases and matters agitated in all the courts at Westminster in the latter yeares of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with learned arguments at the barr and on the bench, and the grave resolutions and judgements thereupon of the chief justices Anderson and Popham, and the rest of the judges of those times : never before published, and now printed by his original copy, with short notes in the margent of the chief matters therein contained, with the yeare, terme, and number roll of many of the cases : and two exact tables, viz. a briefer, of the names of the severall cases, with the nature of the actions on which they are founded : and a larger, of all the remarkable things contained in the whole book

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21432
Author
Goldesborough, John,
Date of Publication
anno Dom. 1653.
Call Number
Book 493 1653
Responsibility
by W.S. of the Inner Temple, Esq.
Author
Goldesborough, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W.W. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
Date of Publication
anno Dom. 1653.
Physical Description
[20], 192, [16] p. ; 22 cm (4to)
Notes
The printer is identified as W. Wilson. Cf. Wing.
Signatures: A⁴ (a)⁴ B² (B)-(C]⁴ D⁴ (E)-(2D)⁴ (A1 blank).
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 493 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.
Courts - England - Early works to 1800.
Courts.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
W. S.,
Randolph, Peyton,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 493 1653
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March's actions for slander, and arbitrements. : The first, being a collection, under certain grounds and heads, of what words are actionable in the law, and what not: where an action de scandalis magnatum will lie: and of the nature of a libel. The other, a discourse, shewing what arbitrements are good in law, and what not: together with directions and presidents of conditions to perform awards, indentures of submission to awards, with covenants to perform the same; arbitrements of lands which the parties covenant to perform, or of debt, &c. upon submission by bond, and variety of pleadings therein. As also, certain quaeries, or doubtful cases, under proper titles, with the books cited pro & contra; very useful for all students in the law

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Author
March, John,
Edition
And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: By W.B.
Date of Publication
1674.
Call Number
Book 440 1648
Alternate Title
Actions for slander, and arbitrements
Responsibility
First written by Jo. March of Grayes-Inn, barrister, in the year, 1648.
Author
March, John,
Edition
And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: By W.B.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Elizabeth Walbanck, at Grayes-Inn Gate in Grayes-Inn Lane,
Date of Publication
1674.
Physical Description
[8], 219, p. 218, 223-320, 401-476, [18] p. ; (8vo)
Notes
Text is continuous despite pagination.
With three indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial law library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 440 as assigned by Yeates.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Subjects
Libel and slander - England - Early works to 1800.
Arbitration and award - England - Early works to 1800.
Arbitration and award.
Libel and slander.
England.
Early works.
Half-leather linen (Binding)
Additional Author
W. B.,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 440 1648
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Precedents in the office of a justice of peace : to which is added a short system of conveyancing, in a method entirely new : with an appendix, containing a variety of the most useful forms

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Author
Read, Collinson,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
Responsibility
by Collinson Read, Esquire.
Author
Read, Collinson,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[4], 63, [1], 33, [1] p. : forms ; 20 cm.
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-E⁴ [F]⁴ G-H⁴ ²A-D⁴ ²E²( -E2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 203 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Forms (Law)
Justices of the peace.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
Blank forms.
Three-quarters leather and marbled paper (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
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Codex juris ecclesiatici anglicani : or, the statutes, constitutions, canons, rubricks and atricles, of the Church of England, methodically digested under their proper heads. With a commentary, historical and juridical. Before it, is an introductory discourse, concerning the present state of the power, discipline and laws, of the Church of England: and after it, an Appendix of instruments, ancient and modern

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19412
Corporate Author
Church of England.
Edition
2d ed., rev. and improved with large additions, by the author.
Date of Publication
M DCC LXI.
Call Number
Book 4, 1751
Book 3, 1751
Alternate Title
Statutes, constitutions, canons, rubricks and articles, of the Church of England
Responsibility
by Edmund Gibson, D. D.
Corporate Author
Church of England.
Edition
2d ed., rev. and improved with large additions, by the author.
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
: Clarendon Press
Date of Publication
M DCC LXI.
Physical Description
2 volumes ([4], xxx, [26], 746; [2], 747-1575, [99] pages) ; folio
Notes
"Supplement, containing certain acts of Parliament relative to ecclesiastical matters; which have either been omitted in their Places by the Author, or been enacted since he prepared the present Edition for the Press": pages [1237]-1321.
Printed marginalia.
Originally published 1713.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book numbers 3 and 4 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Gibson's Codex on the spine.
Full leather binding with gold tooling on edges; some repairs to spine.
Subjects
Church of England - Government.
Church of England.
Ecclesiastical law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Ecclesiastical law.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Additional Author
Gibson, Edmund,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Oxford University Press,
Place
England Oxford.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 4, 1751
Book 3, 1751
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A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Physical Description
2 volumes 33 cm
Notes
Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Subtitle of v. 2 varies.
Vol. 2 printed by H. Lintot, for T. Waller.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Book numbers 696 and 697 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - England - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - England - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foley, Robert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Bacon, Matthew,
Pooley, Henry.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
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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

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Author
Brown, William,
Edition
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.
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Call Number
Book 1024 1702
Book 1025 1703
Alternate Title
Entring clerk's introduction
Responsibility
by William Brown, Gent., author of Formulae bene placitandi.
Author
Brown, William,
Edition
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,
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Pleading - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law)
Pleading.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1024 1702
Book 1025 1703
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