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- Title:
- Fraud
- Publisher:
- American Society for Industrial Security, Arlington, 1992.
- Description:
- Some two dozen articles on fraud prevention and investigations, with an emphasis on insurance and finance
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps; 81 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90529
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime, fraud
- Author:
- Steele, Eric H.
- Title:
- Fraud, Dispute, and the Consumer: Responding to Consumer Complaints
- Publisher:
- American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1975.
- Description:
- Reprinted from the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, May, 1975
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, a little worn and stained, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90533
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- fraud, White Collar Crime
- Author:
- Sheldon, Jonathan A. and George J. Zweibel
- Title:
- Survey of Consumer Fraud Law
- Publisher:
- Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit worn and discolored, but a sound copy; 216 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90550
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of the Trial of the Directors of the City of Glasgow Bank Before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh
- Publisher:
- The Edinburgh Publishing Company, Edinburgh, 1879.
- Description:
- One of the great commercial scandals in Scots history, called "probably the most important [trial] which has taken place in Scotland", reckless investments collapsing Scotland's largest bank, the books cooked in extremis; uncommon, four copies in NUC
- Condition:
- Contemporary 1/4 sheep, a bit rubbed, but a good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-63801
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- banks, fraud
- Author:
- Preston, Ivan L.
- Title:
- The Tangled Web They Weave, Truth, Falsity, and Advertisers
- Publisher:
- University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Advance, uncorrected page proofs, spiral bound wraps; 220 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48425
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- consumer law, fraud
- Author:
- Banks, T.C. and Ephraim Lockhart
- Title:
- A Disquisition on the Right of Jurisdiction in Peerage Successions, Particularly the Peerage of Scotland; Contained in Letters to the Right Honourable the Lord K-------: With an Appendix. Second Edition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, London, 1830.
- Description:
- An uncommon part of the curious career of the Inner Templar T.C. Banks, who established a Dormant Peerage Office and mixed real scholarship with the defense of flimsy and even fraudulent (as here) peerage claims; five copies in OCLC, none in England
- Condition:
- Modern patterned crimson cloth, gilt, ex-library, but a clean copy; 118 pages
- Book No.:
- W-72088
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Peerage Law, Comparative Law, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- The Present Case More fully Stated, as to Time Contracts; And particularly those Illegal--Ones For Putting and Refusing of Stock, &c. Also the Tendency and Consequence of the late Proceedings relating herunto, consider'd [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- No publisher, London, 1721.
- Description:
- A rare part of the fallout following the South Sea Bubble, proposing legislation which potentially could have outlawed all species of time-bargain in stocks, increasing greatly the Bubble Act's consequences, to be experienced throughout the century
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a bit frayed (all text legible), lightly browned, title + pages 3-8, the Taussig copy; one copy in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-78385
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- fraud
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- A Charge Given by . . . Francis Bacon At a Sessions holden for the Verge . . . Declaring The Latitude of the Jurisdiction thereof, and the Offences therein inquireable, as well by the Common Law, as by several Statutes [etc.]. Wing B277; Gibson 234
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Pawlett . . . near the Temple, London, 1676.
- Description:
- Bacon's charge given as he was appointed to his first judicial post by James I, the "Court of the Verge" (its jurisdiction within 12 miles of Whitehall), Bacon touching on such diverse subjects as fraud, Jesuits, perjury, prophecies, and witchcraft
- Condition:
- Modern morocco, browned, margins cut close, the sidenotes sometimes just affected, title trimmed and repaired, usable only; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79426
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- fraud, Religion, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- Act for better Securing certain Powers and Privileges intended to be granted by His Majesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea . . . and for Restraining several Extravagant and Unwarrantable Practices therein mentioned
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1720.
- Description:
- The famous act passed in the midst of the South Sea Bubble economic crisis which (in Maitland's words) "seems to scream at us from the statute book", though recent scholarship contends that it was a "done deal" between the Company and the government
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, disbound, title + pages 363-382 [6 Geo I c.18], now preserved in a folding buckram case; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79433
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Acts, Law and the stockmarket, corporations, fraud
- Author:
- Griffith, William
- Title:
- Institutes of the Jurisdiction and of the Equity Jurisprudence and Pleadings of the High Court of Chancery . . . and with a Concise View of the Equity Jurisdiction of the County Courts
- Publisher:
- H. Sweet, 3, Chancery Lane, Fleet Street [etc.], London, 1868.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by a Gray's Inn barrister, expressly patterned on Justinian, with a chapter on maxims, several on trusts, on married women ("connubium"), contracts ("commercium"), infants and lunatics ("civitas"), and fraud
- Condition:
- Modern blue buckram, gilt, some browning, else well-preserved; a presentation copy ("Owens College / from / The Author")
- Book No.:
- W-76756
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- equity, maxims, fraud, infants, insanity, trusts and estates, marriage
- Author:
- Avins, Alfred
- Title:
- New Light on the Legislative History of Desertion Trhough Fraudulent Enlistment: The Decline of the United States Court of Military Appeals
- Publisher:
- Minnesota Law Review, Minneapolis, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, offprinted from Volume 46 of the Review; pages 69-116
- Book No.:
- W-78291
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- military law, fraud
- Author:
- Avins, Alfred
- Title:
- New Light on the Legislative History of Desertion Through Fraudulent Enlistment: The Decline of the United States Court of Military Appeals
- Publisher:
- Minnesota Law Review, Minneapolis, 1961.
- Description:
- Seemingly the author's personal copy, with the notation in pencil on the front wrap "Professor Avins - Comp Copy"
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, the spine chipped, else a good copy; the November issue, Volume 46 Number 1
- Book No.:
- W-78294
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- military law, fraud
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