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- Author:
- Title:
- Diuersite de courtz et lour iurisdictions, et alia necessaria et vtilia. S.T.C. 10946 [locating seven copies, including this privately held copy, two imperfect]; Beale T122
- Publisher:
- In edibus Richardi Pynsonis Regis impressoris [etc.], London, 1526.
- Description:
- The rare first edition (and the only Pynson printing) of one of the handful of early English legal tracts, treating of the royal and other courts, including King's Bench, the Common Bench, Chancery, the Exchequer, and the Marshalsea inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern blind panelled calf, centered lozenges, lacking the title and final seven leaves, some staining and browning; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78714
- Price:
- $ 3000.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Proceedings and Report of the Board of Army Officers, Convened by Special Orders No. 78 . . . in the Case of Fitz-John Porter. Together with Proceedings in the Original Trial and Papers Related Thereto [etc.]. Three Volumes [without the atlas map volume]
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1879.
- Description:
- The official report of the board convened some sixteen years after Porter's court martial in the matter called the "American Dreyfus case", at which he was represented by Joseph Choate, resulting in his vindication and his character's rehabilitation
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco, unevenly faded, else a good, attractive set
- Book No.:
- W-57464
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Cashman, Victoria S. and Theodore J. Fetter
- Title:
- State Courts: Options for the Future
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, rubbed but quite sound; 58 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30635
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Wasby, Stephen L., Thomas B. Marvell et al
- Title:
- Volume and Delay in State Appellate Courts: Problems and Responses
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, well-preserved; 119 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91484
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- Trial of Lieutenant General Sir John Murray, Bart. by a General Court Martial Held at Winchester, On Monday the 16th of January, 1815, and continued by Adjournment, till Monday the 6th of February, 1815. Taken in Short Hand By Mr. W.B. Gurney [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, London, 1815.
- Description:
- One of the most debated English court-martials, Murray acquitted on all charges save one (which was dispensed with), though Sir John Fortescue writing that Murray "must be pilloried . . . without mercy as a cowardly and dishonourable man"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 1/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed, light browning, else a very good copy, with a two-page manuscript index and the folding frontispiece
- Book No.:
- W-77057
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- Of the Law Terms: A Discourse Written by The Learned Antiquary, Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Wherein The Laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to the Subject, are fully explained. Wing S4929
- Publisher:
- Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, in Westminster Hall, London, 1684.
- Description:
- Spelman's paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, tracing the origins of holding court only at certain times of year and on certain days, noting in particular the influence which canon law seemingly had upon the formation of English law terms
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, crimson morocco label, gilt, somewhat rubbed and scraped, else amply margined and well-preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78055
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- roman law, Anglo-Saxon law, greek law, jewish law, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Rules of the Superior Court, County of Solano, State of California, Adopted July 1, A.D. 1913
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original gray stapled wraps, worn but sound; 14 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51993
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- California, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Rules of The Superior Court of the State of California In and For the County of Alameda
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Light printed stapled green wraps, somewhat faded, else a very good copy; 10 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51996
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- California, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Rules of The Superior Court of the State of California In and For the County of Alameda and Order Modifying
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue stapled wraps, some staining inside; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51997
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- California, courts
- Author:
- Neely, Richard
- Title:
- How Courts Govern America
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-64329
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly [for the Selden Society], London, 1888.
- Description:
- Original edition of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original buckram, gilt, showing definite wear, unevenly faded, private ownership signature, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71548
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Crompton, George
- Title:
- Practice Common=placed: Or, the Rules and Cases of Practice in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, Methodically Arranged. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall [etc.], London, 1780.
- Description:
- First edition of Crompton's treatise, praised by Holdsworth as "very much more comprehensive [than those of Baron Gilbert]", with a substantial, sixteen chapter introduction devoted to the history of the two courts; one copy in this country in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, top of the spine of volume one chipped, light browning and foxing, else a sound, clean set; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79031
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Procedure, courts
- Author:
- Reading, Daniel
- Title:
- The English Clerk's Instructor, In the Practice of the Court of King's Bench, and Common Pleas . . . necessary for the Practice of an Attorney. To which are added, Several Choice Precedents of Declarations. Never before Printed. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1733.
- Description:
- The rare, sole edition of Reading's only work, one of several published following the 1732 act requiring that English be used in the Royal courts, first comparing the two courts and then treating each separately; five copies in ESTC, one in England
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over boards, some staining mainly in the margins of the second volume, else a good clean usable set; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79035
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- courts, pleading
- Author:
- Gurdon, Thornhagh
- Title:
- History of the High Court of Parliament, Its Antiquity, Preheminence and Authority; And the History of Court Baron and Court Leet . . . Together with The Rights of Lords of Manors in Common Pastures [etc.]. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Knaplock . . . and J. Tonson [etc.], London, 1731.
- Description:
- One of Gurdon's two carefully prepared works confirming his election to the Society of Antiquaries, unusually combining an historical treatment of the highest and most modest of English courts, with a final emphasis on commons and tenant privileges
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, some cracking to the joints, but very firm, with the rare four page advertisement of Books printed by Weaver Bickerton
- Book No.:
- W-79044
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Parliament, Natural Resources, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Task Force Report: The Courts
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1967.
- Description:
- Supporting materials of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, wrinkled and discolored, but sound; 178 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90518
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Diuersite de courtz et lour iurisdiccions, et alia necessaria et vtilia. S.T.C. 10952; Beale T127
- Publisher:
- Impressum . . . per me Wyllyam Myddlyton, London, 1543.
- Description:
- The penultimate edition (and the only Middleton printing) of one of just a handful of early English legal tracts, treating of royal and other courts, including King's Bench, the Common Bench, Chancery, the Exchequer, and the Marshalsea inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, some marginal staining and worming, doodles of ?Edward Baber, serjeant at law, occasional notations, else clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78854
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, courts
- Author:
- Prendergast, Harris
- Title:
- The Law Relating to Officers in the Army
- Publisher:
- Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, Military Library, Whitehall, London, 1849.
- Description:
- First edition of a rare work written by the Lincoln's Inn barrister who undertook a similar work on naval officers, with chapters on prize and booty, criminal liabilities, rank and pay, courts martial and much else; one copy in OCLC, two in RLIN
- Condition:
- Original limp embossed crimson cloth, gilt-lettered, a trifle strained yet a pretty copy, the edges and endpapers marbled
- Book No.:
- W-73913
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- military law, courts martial
- Author:
- Hinde, Robert
- Title:
- The Modern Practice of the High Court of Chancery, Methodized and Digested in a Manner Wholly New . . . from the original Bill to the Decree; Comprising a System of Practical Knowledge, According to the Course of the Court as at present established
- Publisher:
- Printed for Messrs. E. Lynch, G. Burnet, W. Colles [etc.], Dublin, 1786.
- Description:
- Hinde's novel scheme (noted by Holdsworth) to analyze equity 'chronologically', that is in the order a Chancery lawsuit would take; with a considerable portion devoted to examination of witnesses, the hearing itself, and related writs and documents
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, quite rubbed, joints cracked but holding, else a clean usable copy; with the bookplate of Eric Poole
- Book No.:
- W-74571
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- equity, courts
- Author:
- Leflar, Robert A.
- Title:
- Internal Operating Procedures of Appellate Courts [Prepared under the Auspices of The American Bar Foundation in Collaboration with The Appellate Judges' Conference]
- Publisher:
- American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91561
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts, appeals
- Author:
- Adye, Stephen Payne
- Title:
- A Treatise on Courts Martial. To Which is Added, An Essay on Military Punishments and Rewards. The Third Edition, With Additions and Amendments [with the 1785 dated title page; seven copies in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-Street, London, 1785.
- Description:
- A rare early edition of the first work devoted primarily to the English law of courts martial and the last published in Adye's life, becoming "the standard work for military judicial practice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, light foxing and browning, moreso to the first and last leaves, a very good copy with the advertising leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78870
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- Proceedings of a General Court-Martial. . .upon the Trial of Lieutenant-General Sir John Mordaunt [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, London, 1758.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54661
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- A Brief Account of the Powers Given to, and Exercised by, The Burgess-Court of Westminster. And Some Reasons for Continuing and Enlarging those Powers, by Amending the Act of the 27th of Queen Elizabeth [1585]
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1756?.
- Description:
- A rare part of the debate over the governance of Westminster, "that most anomalous of all manorial boroughs", seeking to enlarge the powers of its Burgess-Court (and leading to the establishment of its "Annoyance Jury"), ultimately abolished in 1901
- Condition:
- Original stabbed self-wraps, disbound, somewhat dusty, a fragile but usable copy, 16 pages; no copy in ESTC, one in COPAC
- Book No.:
- W-75939
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- courts, London
- Author:
- Finlason, William
- Title:
- A Few Words on the Law, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Ought to Be: With Special Reference to County Courts Suits, and Actions at Law
- Publisher:
- V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1850.
- Description:
- An uncommon tract written by a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple and special pleader who served for almost a half century as The Times legal reporter, contending that the rules of pleading should apply in the newly established county courts
- Condition:
- Original ?self-stabbed wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 31 pages; six copies in OCLC, one in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-76905
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- pleading, courts
- Author:
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Title:
- The Rationale of Reward
- Publisher:
- Published by John and H.L. Hunt, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London, 1825.
- Description:
- First edition in English of one of Bentham's earliest works (written before 1782), "important and original" in seeking to control behavior through rationally determined rewards, with particular application to the legislature and the courts
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-tooled morocco, rebacked, a good copy; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-68769
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, Parliament, courts
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- The Court-Keeper's Guide For the Keeping of Courts Leet and Courts Baron. . .Seventh Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by the assigns of Rich. Atkins, and Edw. Atkins [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the spine laid down; quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-11832
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- courts, Every Man Law Books
- Author:
- Crompton, Richard
- Title:
- L'avthoritie et Ivrisdiction des Courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne: Nouelment collect & compose, per R. Crompton del milieu Temple Esquire. Apprentice del Ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 6050; Beale T328
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Caroli Yetsweirti Armig. [etc.], London, 1594.
- Description:
- First edition of Crompton's chief work, and the first to be devoted exclusively to the Royal courts, beginning with Parliament (as a court), Star Chamber and King's Bench; with a number of circuit reports of criminal cases not printed elsewhere
- Condition:
- Early calf, rebacked, quite worn, browning, yet a good serviceable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73613
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Citizens Study Committee on Judicial Organization, Report to Governor Patrick J. Lucey, January 1973
- Publisher:
- By the Committee, Madison, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated oversized wraps, a very good copy; 417 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91616
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform, Isle of Wight
- Author:
- Boyum, Keith O. and Sam Krislov (eds.)
- Title:
- Forecasting the Impact of Legislation on Courts [Panel on Legislative Impact on Courts, Committee on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council]
- Publisher:
- National Academy Press, Washington, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a very good copy; 217 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91629
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- The Third Part of the Institutes Of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall causes [bound with] The Fourth Part of the Institutes . . . Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. Wing C4961 and C4930. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed at London by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman, London, 1648.
- Description:
- Second editions of both parts, in which Coke first examines exhaustively and with a comprehensiveness not previously attained the criminal law of England, and then the English law courts, including Star Chamber, King's Bench, and Chancery, inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-ruled calf, ?later label lacking, rubbed, but very good copies, with both portraits before the titles
- Book No.:
- W-77989
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a bit rubbed and marked, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-70368
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Stott, Jr., E. Keith, Theodore J. Fetter, et al
- Title:
- Rural Courts, The Effect of Space and Distance on the Administration of Justice
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Denver, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, the spine somewhat sunned, else a very good copy; 113 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91637
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-68099
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Howard, Jr., J. Woodford
- Title:
- Courts of Appeal in the Federal Judicial System, A Study of the Second, Fifth, and District of Columbia Circuits
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a very good copy; 415 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74666
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- courts, appeals
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for Taking away the Fee of Damage Cleere
- Publisher:
- Printed by Edward Husband and John Field [etc.], London, 1650.
- Description:
- The broadside officially publicizing the act of the Commonwealth Parliament abolishing the vexatious fee of court called damage cleer or damna clericorum, in which court clerks had been entitled to an automatic 10% of all judgments
- Condition:
- Attractively matted; with the Commonwealth seal, black-letter
- Book No.:
- W-42994
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- legal ephemera, courts, Interregnum
- Author:
- Title:
- Diversite de Covrtes lour iurisdictions et alia necessaria et vtilia. S.T.C. 10953; Beale T129; McKerrow & Ferguson 53
- Publisher:
- Nicholas Hill for Henry Smith?, London, 1545.
- Description:
- The rare, final edition (and the only Smith printing) of one of just a handful of early English legal tracts, treating of royal and other courts, including King's Bench, the Common Bench, Chancery, the Exchequer, and the Marshalsea inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, light browning, else a very good copy with ample margins and the occasional early annotation, four copies in ESTC; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78988
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, courts
- Author:
- Cummings, Homer and Carl McFarland
- Title:
- Federal Justice, Chapters in the History of Justice and the Federal Executive
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Company, New York, 1937.
- Description:
- Carl McFarland's personal copy of "the principal secondary historical work on the Attorney General", with his ownership stamp in red ink ("Carl McFarland") on the front pastedown, and an informal sheet outlining the work in pencil laid in
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, gilt, rubbed, the spine moreso and somewhat faded, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77274
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, courts
- Author:
- Kitchin, John]
- Title:
- Le Court Leete et Court Baron collect per Iohn Kitchin de Greies Inne . . . ouesque diuers nouel additions, come Court de Marshalsey, Auncient demesne, Court de Pipowders, Essoines, Imparlance . . . & diuers auter matters. S.T.C. 15022; Beale T374
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Wight & Bonhami Norton, London], 1598.
- Description:
- The last sixteenth century edition of a work which--together with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters; with Kitchin's lengthy commentary
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, worn and darkened, definite browning, four leaves misbound, a well-used but sturdy copy, with several leaves of manuscript notation
- Book No.:
- W-75699
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Kitchin, John]
- Title:
- Le Court Leete et Court Baron collect per Iohn Kitchin de Greies Inne . . . ouesque diuers nouel additions, come Court de Marshalsey, Auncient demesne, Court de Pipowders, Essoines, Imparlance . . . & diuers auter matters. S.T.C. 15022; Beale T374
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Wight & Bonhami Norton, London], 1598.
- Description:
- The last sixteenth century edition of a work which--together with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters; with Kitchin's lengthy commentary
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, worn and darkened, definite browning, four leaves misbound, a well-used but sturdy copy, with several leaves of manuscript notation
- Book No.:
- W-75699
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Marvell, Thomas B.
- Title:
- Appellate Courts and Lawyers, Information Gathering in the Adversary System
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press, Westport, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47509
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Letter of the Secretary of War, Communicating . . . Military Commissions by which were tried and convicted E.W. Andrews, of South Carolina; J.M. Brown and C.C. Reese of Georgia; J.L. McMillan and Neill McGill, of North Carolina
- Publisher:
- N.p., Washington, 1865.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, sound
- Book No.:
- W-54770
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- Courts
- Publisher:
- Nat'l Advisory Commission on Crim. Justice Standards & Goals, Washington, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized printed wraps; 358 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30575
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Mecham, L. Ralph (dir.)
- Title:
- Report of the Proceedings of the Judicial Conference of the United States, September 18-19, 1986
- Publisher:
- Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Washington, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 103 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30576
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- An Attorney's Practice Epitomized: Or, The Method, Times and Expences of Proceeding in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas. From the Commencement of a Suit, to the Trial, final Judgment and Execution [etc.]. A New Edition, corrected
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . For P. Uriel [etc.], London, 1778.
- Description:
- A rare edition of an intensely practical work seemingly published for almost a century, most usefully comparing and contrasting the practice of the two major royal courts in parallel columns, its gloss sometimes highly critical; five copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a very good copy, interleaved throughout, glossed, indexed, and with the rules of the Court of Peverel set forth
- Book No.:
- W-68508
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- courts, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Contentes of this booke. Fyrste the Booke for a Iustice of peace. The boke that teacheth to kepe a courte Baron, or a lete. The booke teachynge to kepe a courte hundred. The boke called returna Brevium [etc.]. S.T.C. 14883; Beale T154
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Fletestreet . . . by Richard Tottil [etc.], London, 1559.
- Description:
- The collection of highly practical treatises designed for justices of the peace, sheriffs, bailiffs and other local officials first printed by Pynson in 1505, including (as well as those above) Novae Additiones, Carta Foedi and Exchequer Ordinance
- Condition:
- Modern calf, extensive but unobtrusive worming, repairs; sound
- Book No.:
- W-65998
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Every Man Law Books, courts, Exchequer
- Author:
- Impey, John
- Title:
- The New Instructor Clericalis, Stating the Authority, Jurisdiction, and Modern Practice of the Court of Common Pleas. With Directions for commencing and defending Actions, entering up Judgments, suing out Executions [etc.]. The Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, by His Majesty's Law Printers [etc.], London, 1786.
- Description:
- A rare early edition of Impey's lucid, richly knowledgeable work on the Court of Common Pleas which, with his like work on the Court of King's Bench, have been called "the first systematic account of the practice of the two great common law courts"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint cracked but holding, a clean usable copy; two copies in ESTC, neither in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-77371
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- pleading, pleading, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial Of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a Court Martial, As taken by Mr. Charles Fearne [with] Trial of Lawrence Earl Ferrers, for the Murder of John Johnson [with] Trial of Mary Blandy, Spinster; for The Murder of her Father. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for R. Manby [2] Samuel Billingsley [3] J Rivington, London, 1760-57-52.
- Description:
- Three of the most famous 18th century English trials, a miscarriage of justice [Admiral Byng's court martial], the last murder trial in the House of Lords of a fellow peer [Lord Ferrers], and a parricide of daughter-administered poison [Miss Blandy]
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, an attractive copy, but with two leaves lacking from the Byng trial and repairs to the Blandy title and last leaf
- Book No.:
- W-72453
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- Judicial Appointments. A Letter to the Right Honourable Baron Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Bosworth & Harrison, 215, Regent Street, London, 1857.
- Description:
- A rare reformist tract with a decidedly populist slant, proposing that the judges of the county courts (then established for some ten years) were a fertile source for appointment to the central courts at Westminster; no copy in COPAC, OCLC or RLIN
- Condition:
- Disbound, the stitching loose, a just usable copy; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74058
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- equity, courts
- Author:
- Wilkinson, John
- Title:
- A Treatise Collected ovt of the Statvtes of this Kingdom, and . . . the Lawes concerning the Office and Authorities of Coroners and Sherifes: Together With an easie and plain method for the keeping of a Court Leet, Court Baron, and Hundred Court. STC 25648
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1618.
- Description:
- First edition of the first treatise by a named author on both the coroner and on the sheriff, written by a Barnard's Inn attorney and appearing in several editions throughout the century; with separate sections on each officer and on each local court
- Condition:
- Modern brown morocco, gilt lettered, occasional light staining, else especially crisp with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79129
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- coroners, sheriffs, courts
- Author:
- Kitchin, John
- Title:
- Le Court Leete, et Court Baron collect per Iohn Kytchin de Greys Inne . . . les cases et matters necessaries pur Seneschals de ceux courts a scier, pur les Students de les measons de Chauncerie [etc.]. STC 15017 & addenda [two copies, including this copy]
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Octobris quarto [etc.], London, 1580.
- Description:
- The rare early variant printing of a work which--together with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters; with the preface dated 10 Nov 1581
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered blind lozenges, later label, lightly rubbed, very fresh with generous margins; the Taussig copy--not in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-79141
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
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