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- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Title:
- The Contentes of this boke. Fyrste the boke for a Justice of peace. The boke that teacheth to kepe a court Baron, or a lete [and] a courte hundred. The boke[s] called returna Brevium [and] Carta Foedi [and] the kynge's Escheker [etc.]. S.T.C. 14877
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Bertheleti [imprints vary], London, 1544.
- Description:
- The collection of highly practical treatises designed for justices of the peace, sheriffs, bailiffs and other local officials, this being the edition selected by Holdsworth as representative, its contents termed "a useful handbook [and] essential"
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, all edges gilt, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Huntington Library duplicate, quite clean and even luscious; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79387
- Price:
- $ 6750.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Every Man Law Books, courts, Exchequer, sheriffs, Forms & Form Books
- 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:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- Ordinances Made By The Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Lord Verulam, and Vicount of Saint Albans, being then Lord Chancellor. For the better and more regular Administration of Justice in the Chancery [etc.]. Wing B316; Gibson 212
- Publisher:
- Printed for Mathew Walbanke, and Lawrence Chapman, London, 1642.
- Description:
- Bacon's signal contribution to Chancery, largely "fixing the practice of the court till the reforms of the last century" (in Holdsworth's words), 100+ in number, procedural and substantive, the principal evidence of Bacon's years as Lord Chancellor
- Condition:
- Original vellum, darkened, definite browning and some marginal staining, small repair to the title's margin, contents disbound, in a protective sleeve
- Book No.:
- W-79374
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- equity, codification, courts
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- The Complete Court-Keeper: or, Land-Steward's Assistant. Containing . . . The Nature of Courts-Leet and Courts-Baron; with a general Introduction to every thing incident to them, according to Law and Custom [and four other parts]. Seventh Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers [for seven others], London, 1781.
- Description:
- The last eighteenth century edition of what I believe is Jacob's first work (of eighteen) on the subject he may have known best, local courts, in which he had served professionally, termed "very successful . . . and comprehensive" by Holdsworth
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, ex-library, else a very good copy with generous margins
- Book No.:
- W-79458
- Price:
- $ 135.00
- Category:
- courts, Every Man Law Books, justices of peace
- Author:
- Title:
- The Boke for a Iustyce of peace neuer soo wel and diligently set forthe [with] Carta Foedi [with] Modvs Tenendi Cvriam Baronis [with] Retvrna Brevivm [with] A Trve Copy of the Ordinance . . . in the Kynges Eschker. STC 14873; 7696.7; 7713; 15583.7; 20899.5
- Publisher:
- in Aedibus T. Berthel[eti] [imprints vary; all by Berthelet], London, 1535-40?.
- Description:
- A unique collection of rare editions of five medieval English law books, all printed in the early sixteenth century, two the copies recorded in the Short Title Catalogue, the first lacking its title, else especially clean and complete
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind stamped calf, worn, ?a unique binding with panels similar to Oldham's HM26 and 28 (front) and HM25 (back); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79342
- Price:
- $ 10000.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, Procedure, taxation
- 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 C4963 and C4931
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Crooke, W. Leake [and eleven others], London, 1669.
- Description:
- Early editions (the fourth), 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 King's Bench, Chancery, Star Chamber, and many others
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers, some light browning, else quite clean, with both portraits, the first backed
- Book No.:
- W-79214
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- 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:
- Leigh, Valentine
- Title:
- The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Lands, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes . . . of the measuring of all kindes of Landes, be it Meadow, Pasture, Errable, Wood, Hill, or Dale . . . Newly Imprinted and corrected. S.T.C. 15419
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by John Windet, for Robart Dexter [etc.], London, 1592.
- Description:
- Among the earliest works on English surveying, with much on the legal aspects of local courts and the administration of manors, "a popular, practical guide, largely for self surveyors . . . mentioned in John Norden's standard [17th century] work"
- Condition:
- Early calf, very neatly rebacked, worn but quite attractive, lightish marginal staining; with the two tables and the first blank, the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79415
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- surveying, Real Property, courts
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts [etc.]. Wing C4930; ESTC R504744 [the edition identified in November, 2014, two copies located in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman, London, 1648.
- Description:
- The rare, just identified second edition of Coke's exhaustive examination of English courts, comprising the fourth (and last) part of his famed Institutes, treating of King's Bench, Common Pleas, Chancery, Star Chamber and several dozen other courts
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled sheep, quite worn, rebacked, some browning, final blanks quite chipped, yet a sturdy copy; with the frontispiece portrait
- Book No.:
- W-79255
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts
- 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:
- Wilkinson, John
- Title:
- The Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs. With Directions how and in what manner to execute the said Offices . . . with an easie and plain Method for the Keeping of Court Leets, Court Barons, and Hundred Courts. Fourth Edition. Wing W2246A
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. Flesher, J Streater, and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- Final 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:
- Early calf, gilt lettered, all edges marbled, the spine rubbed, new endpapers, quite clean and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79290
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- coroners, sheriffs, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Septimo Edwardi Sexti. Actes made in the Parlamente holden at Westminster, the first daye of Marches, in the vii yere of the reigne of our moste redoubted Souuereine Lorde Edwarde the VI [1553] . . . And there continued [etc.]. S.T.C. 9439
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Graftoni . . . Mense Aprilis [etc.], London, 1553.
- Description:
- The uncommon first printing of the acts of Edward VI's final parliament, including the confirmation of the establishment of several Royal courts under Henry VIII [c.3]; two copies in S.T.C. in North America, which also locates this copy
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 calf over marbled boards, quite rubbed, last leaf repaired and backed with small loss, else well preserved with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79221
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- Acts, courts
- 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:
- Wilkinson, John
- Title:
- A Treatise Collected ovt of the Statutes of this Kingdome, and . . . the Lawes, Concerning the Office and Authorities of Coroners and Sheriffes. Together with an easie . . . method for the keeping of a Court Leet, Court Baron, and Hundred Court. Wing W2244
- Publisher:
- No Publisher Stated, London, 1641.
- Description:
- A rare edition of the first treatise by a named author on the coroner and on the sheriff, written by a Barnard's Inn attorney and appearing in ten editions throughout the century; with separate sections on each officer and court; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over boards, somewhat rubbed and tightly bound and some light browning and foxing, ex Royal Historical Society; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79482
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- coroners, sheriffs, courts
- Author:
- Kitchin, John
- Title:
- Le Court Leete & Court Baron . . . les cases & matters necessaries pur Seneschals de ceux courts a scier, & pur les Students de les measons de Chauncerie . . . Court de Marshalsey, Auncient demesne, Court de Pipowders [etc.]. STC 15021; Beale T373 and T378
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Totelli [etc.], London, 1592.
- Description:
- The work which--with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters, complemented by an edition of the Returna Brevium bound in with a separate title
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered lozenges, rebacked, signatures of Richard Norwood and Jno Prynne, quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79325
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
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