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- Title:
- The Parliamentary Opinions of Lord Mansfield, Sir Dudley Ryder, Mr. Charles Yorke, Mr. William Beckford, &c. On the Choice of a Regency or Regent; with Other Discussions on That Interesting Question
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, London, 1788.
- Description:
- Part of the debate during the mental incapacity of George III (no provision for succession having been made), publishing a series of arguments bruited when the 1751 Regency Bill, providing for his own succession while a minor, had been enacted
- Condition:
- Disbound, one leaf torn with loss of several words on its verso (but not the sense); 46 pages plus the advertising leaf
- Book No.:
- W-71544
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- insanity, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Halleck, Seymour L.
- Title:
- The Mentally Disordered Offender
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 215 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30858
- Price:
- $ 12.50
- Category:
- insanity, criminal law
- Author:
- Morris, Norval
- Title:
- Madness and the Criminal Law
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54061
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, insanity
- Author:
- Casper, Johann Ludwig
- Title:
- A Handbook of the Practice of Forensic Medicine. Vol. III. Including the Bio-Thanatology of New-born Children, and the First Part of The Biological Division [with] Vol. IV. Biological Division. Translated by George William Balfour [etc.]
- Publisher:
- The New Sydenham Society, London, 1864-65.
- Description:
- Volumes 3 and 4 [only] of Casper's treatise, but with its Biological Division complete, including a first part on disputed sexual relations, and a sixth on mental diseases, with the emphasis on all aspects of insanity, both civil and criminal
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt, crudely rebacked, a clean working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-78404
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- forensic medicine, Sexuality, insanity
- Author:
- Thornberry, Terence P. and Joseph E. Jacoby
- Title:
- The Criminally Insane, A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56187
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- insanity
- Author:
- Lindman, Frank
- Title:
- The Mentally Disabled and the Law
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-13937
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Mental Illness, insanity, maritime law, international law
- Author:
- Staundforde [Stanford], William
- Title:
- Les Plees del Coron, diuisees in plusors titles & comon lieux [bound with] An Exposition of the Kinges Praerogatiue collected out of the great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert, and other old Writers of the Lawes of England [etc.]. S.T.C. 23223 and 23217
- Publisher:
- In AEdibus Richardi Tottelli [and] Imprinted by Richard Totthil, London, 1583 & 1590.
- Description:
- Early editions of Stanford's two principal works, his "Plees" the first treatise on English criminal law and his "Exposition" on royal powers over many subjects, including women, wardship, idiots, insane persons, escheats, and wrecks, inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, centered blind lozenges, bookplate of Lord Halifax dated 1702, repairs to the first blanks, else crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78287
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, maritime law, marriage, insanity
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Tricesimo Tertio Henrici Octavi. Henry the VIII . . . kyng of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland . . . the XXXIII yere [1542] of his moste noble and vytoriouse reygne, wherin were establyshed these actes folowyng. S.T.C. 9405. Folio in 4's
- Publisher:
- Ex officina Thomae Bertheleti typis impress [etc.], London, 1548?.
- Description:
- The Parliament which enacted the first English statute upon witchcraft [c.8], to be repealed in 1547 and re-enacted under Elizabeth (in 1563), as well as the first act [c.20] providing for a second trial (in absentia) of those who have become insane
- Condition:
- ?Original sewn self wraps, disbound, a very good clean copy now preserved in a slightly worn and chipped green folding case
- Book No.:
- W-79470
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, witchcraft, insanity
- Author:
- Leach, John
- Title:
- The Speech of John Leach, Esq. M.P. In the Committee of the Whole House, upon the State of the Nation . . . upon the Question of Limitations to the Royal Authority in the Hands of the Regent. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Ridgway, 170, Piccadilly [etc.], London, 1811.
- Description:
- The rare edition of the historically grounded speech in which, following the madness of George III, Leach "distinguished himself in the Regency debates", reviewing from the 14th century forward the constitutional limits to be imposed upon a regency
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, occasional light marginal staining, else a very good copy, with the half-title; no copy in this country in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-76397
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- insanity, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Goodwin, John C.
- Title:
- Insanity and the Criminal
- Publisher:
- Doran, N.p., N.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Lacking title page.
- Book No.:
- W-15032
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- criminal law, insanity
- 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:
- Brydall, John
- Title:
- Non Compos Mentis: Or, The Law Relating to Natural Fools, Mad-Folks, and Lunatick Persons, Inquisited, and Explained, for Common Benefit. Wing B5265
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1700.
- Description:
- Only edition of the first work exclusively devoted to the English law on these subjects, unusually framed by first stating "Remarks" followed by "Questions" and "Solutions", treating of idiots, those insane, and those insane but with lucid intervals
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt lettered, severely browned throughout (as often), outer margin of title strengthened, usable only; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79284
- Price:
- $ 2000.00
- Category:
- insanity
- 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:
- Title:
- Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill. Part 2--Criminal Aspect [only]. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary [of the United States Senate], Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1961.
- Description:
- Three days of testimony (May 2, 4, and 5, 1961), with appearances by Abe Krash, Judge Alexander Holtzoff, and Professor Kenneth A. Pye, among several others
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled self-wraps, the front wrap somewhat soiled, else a good usable copy; pages 549-825
- Book No.:
- W-91652
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- insanity, constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Dundonnell Cause. Report of the Trial by Jury, Thomas Mackenzie against Robert Roy, Esq. W.S.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Daniel Lizars, at . . . the New North Briton [etc.], Edinburgh, 1830.
- Description:
- A tribute to the talents of Henry Cockburn, who secured a Scotch verdict for his client against charges that he had swindled an estate from the weak-minded Mackenzie; with Cockburn's jury address and the exchanges between counsel well-reported
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, else a good, sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-56200
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, insanity, Wills
- Author:
- Title:
- Brief Deductions Relative to the Aid and Supply of the Executive Power, According to the Law of England. In Cases of Infancy, Delirium, or Other Incapacity of the King. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Debrett, London, 1788.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards; a very nice, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-47595
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- insanity, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings in the Trial of an Ejectment between Richard Goodright, on the Demise of Mary Done, Widow, against David Ackerley, Gentleman; at the Portmote Court of the City of Chester . . . Taken in Short-hand by Mr. Joseph Gurney [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Fletcher [etc.], Chester, 1788.
- Description:
- The rare, sole report of a sensational trial involving a will executed by an allegedly insane testator unduly influenced by a menage a trois consisting of his wife, a paramour, and a key witness, with Erskine (unsuccessfully) for the defense
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, very worn, early tape labels hand lettered, first leaves stained at their inner margins, else clean; two copies in OCLC none in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-78317
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, insanity, adultery
- Author:
- Title:
- A Commission with Instructions and Directions, granted by his Maiesty to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liveries. For compounding for Wards, Ideots, and Lunaticks. And giuen under His Highnesse great Seale [etc.]. S.T.C. 9242. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill [etc.], London, 1622.
- Description:
- The final instructions governing the court, insufficient to stem its corrupt and dilatory practices and the many grievances against it, leading to the impeachment of the Court's Master and the Court "as an important subsidiary cause of the Civil War"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, well preserved, the margins untrimmed, with the first and last blanks and the Foyle bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79770
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- infants, insanity, courts
- Author:
- Millar, Jun, John
- Title:
- Elements of the Law Relating to Insurances
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Bell . . . And G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Edinburgh, 1787.
- Description:
- Only edition of the principal work of John Millar's eldest son, himself an advocate, a major contribution to insurance law, particularly marine insurance, treating of both English and Scots law, with Lord Mansfield's decisions "hold[ing] first place"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, gilt ruled and lettered, rubbed, else quite clean, with the errata, including one pasted in addition to p.52; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79541
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- insanity, maritime law, Scopes trial, SCOTLAND
- 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:
- ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association, Washington, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, rubbed, but clean and sound
- Book No.:
- W-30312
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- insanity, law and psychology
- 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 [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [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:
- The Trials of Samuel Goodere Esq; Matthew Mahony, and Charles White, for the Murder of Sir John Dinely Goodere Bart. (Brother to the said Samuel Goodere,) On board His Majesty's Ship the Ruby . . . Before . . . Michael Foster Esq; Serjeant at Law [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar [and] B. Hickey [etc.], London, 1741.
- Description:
- The most extensive contemporary account of a bungled fratricide ordered by a ship's captain who, claiming his brother was mad, successfully ordered his murder, only to be overpowered by his crew the following day, tried, convicted and hanged
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, some browning, without the initial advertisement leaf, else quite clean and the sewing firm; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80034
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, insanity
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