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- Author:
- Read, David
- Title:
- Lawyers and Doctors; Orphans and Guardians: A Plea for the Better Legislative Protection of Medical Men and Helpless Patients: The Law of Medical Fees, and a Scheme for Appointing Medical Assessors
- Publisher:
- Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, London, 1870.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, a very good copy; uncommon, six copies in OCLC, none in an academic law library
- Book No.:
- W-70694
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- medicine, infants
- Author:
- Reeve, Tapping
- Title:
- The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
- Publisher:
- Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
- Description:
- First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55365
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
- Author:
- Reeve, Tapping
- Title:
- The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
- Publisher:
- Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
- Description:
- First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn, some staining, well rebacked; sound
- Book No.:
- W-49579
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
- Author:
- Title:
- Standards for Specialized Courts Dealing with Children
- Publisher:
- United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1954.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, ex-library and dampstained; usable
- Book No.:
- W-30603
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- infants, Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Bingham, Peregrine
- Title:
- The Law of Infancy and Coverture. Second American Edition from the Last London Edition. With Notes and References to English and American Cases. By E.H. Bennett. Cohen 4739
- Publisher:
- Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington, 1849.
- Description:
- The first work published in this country devoted to the law of infants, coupled with the first work exclusively treating of coverture, both with substantial American notes, praised by Holdsworth for their superior analysis of a difficult area
- Condition:
- Original sheep, worn, covers loose, spine defective; a clean copy only
- Book No.:
- W-69844
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- infants, marriage, Pennsylvania, women's law
- Author:
- Title:
- Instructions and Directions giuen by His Maiestie, vnder His great Seale of England, bearing date the 9 day of Ianuary [and] 7 day of February. To the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liueries. S.T.C. 9222. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1611.
- Description:
- The expanded instructions governing the court, failing to stem the many grievances against it, years later to lead to the impeachment of the Court's Master, the Court's abolition, and its role "as an important subsidiairy cause of the Civil War"
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, definite browning, without the first and last blanks, the top margin cut close, textually complete; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-79795
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- infants, insanity, courts
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite scraped, yet sound and crisp
- Book No.:
- W-11432
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries, the financially important and controversial court which flourished for over a century after its formation by Henry VIII
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked; sound
- Book No.:
- W-48291
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Reeve, Tapping
- Title:
- The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
- Publisher:
- Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
- Description:
- First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-58175
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
- Author:
- Reeve, Tapping
- Title:
- The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
- Publisher:
- Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
- Description:
- First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, very worn, some browning; a just usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73489
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
- Author:
- Prynne, William
- Title:
- Minors No Senators. Or A Briefe Discourse, proving, That Infants under the Age of 21 yeares are uncapable, in point of Law, of being Members of Parliament, and that the Elections of any such are meere Nullities [etc.]. Wing P4008. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed at London, Anno 1646, London, 1646.
- Description:
- First edition of this tract by Prynne, whom Maitland called "an heroic figure", following hard on the heels of his contretemps with Lilburne and finding Prynne "[f]oremost among the Erastian pamphleteers" in the three-way battle for Parliament
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning, the margins cut close (one catchword affected), else quite crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79900
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- infants, Parliament
- Author:
- Title:
- Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules (Northern IIreland) 1969
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Belfast, 1969.
- Description:
- ages
- Condition:
- Original Printed Sewn Wraps a bit chipped else a very good copy; 116 pgs
- Book No.:
- W-91946
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, infants
- 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:
- Title:
- Guide to the California Child Nutrition Facilities Act of 1975
- Publisher:
- Food Law Center, California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated [by Sharron Evans] stapled oversized wraps, a very good copy, 12 pages; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-78125
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- infants, Acts, California
- Author:
- Pillsbury, Arthur J.
- Title:
- Institutional Life, Its Relations to the State and to the Wards of the State
- Publisher:
- State Printing Office, Sacramento, 1906.
- Description:
- The results of Pillsbury's efforts in visiting over eighty orphanages and like institutions elsewhere in the country, and so succesfully providing the factual basis for seeking to reform California's much discredited private institutions
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, lightly worn, circular sticker on the front wrap, otherwise a very good copy; 167 pages
- Book No.:
- W-78281
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- infants, legal reform
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards, And other Courts at Westminster, in the Reigns of the late Kings, King James and King Charles . . . And now published for the Common good [etc.]. Wing M688. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled unlettered sheep, rubbed, the spine ends just chipped, very light browning, else quite well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79942
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Lex Londinensis; or, The City Law. Shewing the Powers, Customs and Practice Of all the several Courts Belonging to the Famous City of London . . . Together With several Acts of Common Councel, very useful and necesary to be known by all [&c]. Wing L1858
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Roycroft for Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- Only edition of an early work devoted to London and its courts, ten of which are treated, including the Lord Mayor's Court, the Court of Hustings, the Sheriffs Court, the Court of Alderman, the Court of Conscience, and the Orphan's Court inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind panelled calf, red edges, somewhat rubbed, neatly repaired, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80058
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- London, courts, infants, Religion, sheriffs
- Author:
- Carter, Samuel
- Title:
- Legal Provisions for the Poor: Or, a Treatise of the Common and Statute Laws concerning the Poor, either as to Relief, Settlement, or Punishment. Being a Methodical Guide for Justices of Peace, Church wardens, and Overseers [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Nutt . . . for John Walthoe [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the earliest works on England's poor law, represented as the first to analyze it other than via an alphabetical digest, thoroughly treating of workhouses, bastard children and their mothers, incorrigible rogues and vagabonds
- Condition:
- Modern calf, double blind ruled and gilt lettered, light browning, else very clean and crisp with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79679
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- poor law, infants, criminal law, justices of peace, Ecclesiastical Law
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