Search Results: Courts from Nostre Livers

London: London: printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar. M DCC XCII. [1792], 1792. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fair. Description: Vol. 2 (only) of 2. 8vo: [4], 470, 26 p. (the page numbers at the end are in brackets). · Register: 8º: [pi]^2 *B^8 C-Q^8 R^8(-R8) S-2G^8 2H^4 [a]^4 [b]^2 [c]-[d]^4 (c4 is a blank). · Condition: Old calf very worn, top board missing, bottom board detached. Some wear to the fore edge of the title-page, light sporadic foxing, ink smear on p. 103. Despite the absence of R8 in the register, the book is complete. Based on holes in the inner margin, it appears that the book was issued in parts stab-sewn and subsequently bound up as a single volume. · Comments: Half of the volume consists of William Hudson's "A Treatise on the Court of Star-Chamber." Bound at the end is a "Register of Law Publications" for Easter Term 1791 through Hillary Term 1792, 26 pages, separately numbered. · References: Johnson 94 (1 copy… Read More

London: London, printed for Benjamin Fisher: and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster Row, at the signe of the Talbot: 1623., 1623. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: 4to (7½ × 5¾ in): [12], 92, [4], 39 [i.e. 93]-168, [4], 169-230, [62] p. Recent quarter-calf over marbled boards, endpapers renewed. · Register: 4º: *^2 A-M^4 N^4(N2+a^2) O-Y^4 [chi]^2 Z-2O^4 2P^2. (Sheet E misbound E4, E[3], E2, E1; E3 signed "E2"; B2 recto last line has "Proces"; the errata leaf, [chi]2, bound before Z1.) · Condition: Title-page soiled, frayed at edges, laid down; fraying to corners of first and last few leaves; otherwise a fresh, attractive copy. · Comments: First of four editions, complete despite the irregular register. John Baker has identified it as the first printed treatise on common-law procedure. Most of the information in it is derived from late Elizabethan manuscript tracts, so it can be taken as representing practice in… Read More

[1982 Photo reprint by Professional Books Ltd. of] Dublin: Printed for E. Lynch [et al.]. M DCC LXXXII. [1787], 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Description: 8vo (9½ × 6½ in): [6], li, 578 p. Red cloth with gilt lettering. · Comments: No more volumes published. Contains eleven works: 1. A treatise, in three parts.--Pars prima. De jure maris et brachiorum ejusdem.--Pars secunda. De portibus maris.--Pars tertia. Concerning the custom of goods imported and exported.--From a manuscript of Lord Chief-Justice Hale. 2. Considerations touching the amendment or alteration of lawes. By Lord Chief-Justice Hale. 3. A treatise of the maisters of the chauncerie. 4. Two pieces touching suits in chancery by subpoena. 5. A discourse concerning the courts of King's Bench and Common-Pleas. By Lord Chief-Justice Hale. 6 A discourse against the jurisdiction of the King's Bench over Wales by process of latitat. 7. The abuses and remedies of chancery. By Mr. George Norburie. 8. Concerning the… Read More

New York: New-York: printed by Isaac Riley, and sold by Alsop, Brannan & Alsop; No. 1, City-Hotel, Broadway. 1807. [Forms:] New-York: printed for Alsop, Brannan and Alsop, City-Hotel, Broadway. 1808., 1807. Leather. Very Good. Description: Three volumes, 8vo (9½ × 6 in): xviii, 664 (i.e., 398); [2], 665-1140 (i.e., 267), [124]; vi, [2], 526, [2] p. Errata slip tipped to p. [iii] in the volume of forms. Contemporary calf. · Register: 8º: [1]-[2]^4 [3]1 A-3C^4 3D^4(-3D4); [3D4] 3E-5H^4; [A]-3X^4. · Condition: Boards rubbed, joints cracked, first volume lacks label; title-pages clipped at top; light toning and foxing. · Comments: Two volumes plus the volume of forms. The first London edition of the treatise was issued in two parts, 1790-1794; the forms appeared in 1799. Tidd was a standard work through the first decades of the nineteenth century in both England and the United States, where it was "received as a proper guide for the practitioner, and… Read More

London: London, printed by Tho: Roycroft, for H. Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop in Vine Court, Middle Temple, 1653., 1653. 2nd Edition . Leather. Fair. Description: (5¾ × 3¾ in): [4], 208, 193-384, [19] p. Contemporary green vellum. · Register: 8º: A^2 B-2D^8 2E^2 (I3 signed 'F3'; 2C3 signed 'Cc2'). · Condition: Book block loose from case, but the cords on the boards align with the cords on the book block; worm trail in text, affecting some letters on most pages; endpapers worn with numerous early manuscript notes; fraying to fore edge of first two and last four gatherings. · Comments: Second edition, published one year after the first. A very popular guide, reprinted and expanded numerous times down to 1724. · References: S&M 1:276(122); Wing T7B; ESTC R38210, R184820.

London: London: printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot, law-printer to the King's most excellent majesty; for T. Waller, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street. M.DCC.LXI. [1761], 1761. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Two volumes, 8vo (8¼ × 5¼ in): K.B.: [2], 554; C.P.: [2], 580 p. Contemporary sheep. · Register: 8º: K.B.: [A]1 B-2M^8 2N^4 2O1 (gathering N misbound N4, N3, N2, N1); C.P.: [A]1 B-2O^8 2P^2. · Condition: Leather worn, joints cracked, leather dry, spines chipped at head and tail, top board of K.B. volume nearly detached, back of C.P. cracked; pages toned. Early letter-press book-plate and signature of Cornelius Vandenbergh. · Comments: Sole edition of each volume. Two volumes: one for the King's Bench, one for the Common Pleas. Online ESTC shows six locations for the K.B. volume and four for the C.P. volume. · References: S&M 1:271(77), (78); ESTC T127632 & N20952.

London: London, printed for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-Luce over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and Richard Mount, in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill. 1708., 1708. 1st Edition . Leather. Good. Description: 8vo (7¾ × 4¾ in): t-p., [14], 215 p. Early sheep. · Register: 8º: A-O^8 P^4 (K3, L3 signed 'K4', 'L4', respectively). · Condition: Boards scraped, worn at edges, joints cracked, starting to pull away from boards, yet sound. Internally very good, with small blind stamp to leaves B5-B6. · Comments: First edition. A second issued in 1722. Includes a detailed description of the practice and proceedings of the various courts special to the city of London. · References: S&M 1:439(52); ESTC T117148. Covers the practice and procedure of the judicial and legislative bodies of London, as well as their customary rights and duties.