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- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- Glossarium Archaiologicum, Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula [etc.]. Third edition. Cowley 178 (variant); Wing S4926. Folio
- Publisher:
- Excudebat Tho. Braddyll, & Prostant apud Georg. Pawlett [etc.], London, 1687.
- Description:
- The best edition of the work which Holdsworth calls "the earliest dictionary of early legal and historical terms constructed upon sound principles" and the basis for Spelman's studies begun earlier in the century on English law and its history
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf, title neatly repaired, engraved frontispiece strengthened at the inner margin, some dustiness, else a clean usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73863
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries
- Author:
- Oliver, Frederick Scott
- Title:
- Alexander Hamilton, An Essay on American Union [this copy with the inscription "From Louis D. Brandeis / Jan 31 1913" on the first free endpaper and with the calling card of Brandeis ("Mr. Louis D.Brandeis") laid in]
- Publisher:
- G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1912.
- Description:
- Oliver's influential biography of Hamilton, a substantial quotation from which Brandeis provides in his address "The Living Law" in early 1916, immediately following which he then unreservedly characterizes Hamilton as "an apostle of the living law"
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, a bit rubbed and the spine dull, light circular stain to the front board, else quite a good fresh copy
- Book No.:
- W-80397
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Important Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Steam-Boat Case, Delivered by chief justice Marshall, March 2, 1824. Gibbons v. Ogden [the March 27, 1824 issue, pp. 49-64 (complete) (Marshall's opinion taking up most of the issue)]
- Publisher:
- Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, 1824.
- Description:
- Marshall's famed opinion establishing freedom of interstate commerce throughout this country, an "opinion which has done more to knit the American people into an indivisible Nation than any other one force in our history, excepting only war"
- Condition:
- Original printed self wraps, disbound, light browning, else a good sound copy now protected in a modern cloth folding case; Vol. XXVI Whole No. 654
- Book No.:
- W-80426
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
- Author:
- Glasser, Martin
- Title:
- The Judicial Philosophy of Felix Frankfurter [in the Review's first volume, with Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek two of the three Editorial Advisors, the Review to be republished by the Liberty Fund; no copy of this original review in a law library in OCLC]
- Publisher:
- New Individualist Review, Chicago, 1962.
- Description:
- An essay highly critical of Frankfurter's doctrine of judicial restraint, invoking de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill, stating that Frankfurter "personifies the Court's efforts to prostrate itself at the feet of the popular branches of government"
- Condition:
- Original printed, stapled wraps, a very good copy, now preserved in a cloth folding case; the Winter 1962 issue
- Book No.:
- W-80427
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Grimes, Harlan
- Title:
- Justice? [one result of Grimes's efforts, as described below, was, shockingly, his disbarrment from practising law in Oklahoma, this perversion of justice never remedied despite several attempts by Grimes to be reinstated]
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed, Dallas, 1959.
- Description:
- A rare work written by a crusading, anti-corruption lawyer who revealed widespread bribery in the Oklahoma Supreme Court, leading to the establishment of Oklahoma's Judicial Nominating Commission; one copy in OCLC (at the Library of Congress)
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, very slightly rubbed, else a near fine copy; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80429
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Oklahoma, Legal Ethics, Bench and Bar, fraud
- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
- Publisher:
- Annual Register, London, 1798.
- Description:
- A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
- Condition:
- Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
- Book No.:
- W-80391
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta
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