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- Author:
- Weisman, Peter, et al.
- Title:
- A Symposium, The Grand Jury. The American Criminal Law Review, Volume 10, Number 4
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association, Chicago, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a bit embrowned, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90173
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury, at the Sessions of the Peace Held for the City and Liberty of Westminster, &c. On Thursday the 29th of June, 1749. Published By Order of the Court, and at the unanimous Request of the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar . . . in the Strand, London, 1749.
- Description:
- Arguably the most famous grand jury charge ever delivered, "a masterly and assured model of its kind", citing Bracton, Coke, Hale and Hawkins inter alia, and setting forth Fielding's views on the state of English society and its needed reforms
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, the title somewhat browned and with a circular stain, else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79299
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, legal reform, English Law
- Author:
- Astry, James
- Title:
- A General Charge to All Grand Juries, with Advice to those of Life and Death, Nisi Prius, &c. Collected and Publish'd For the ease of Justices of the Peace . . . To which is Prefix'd, A Discourse of the Antiquity, Power and Duty of Juries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Turner . . . and Thomas Emery [etc.], London, 1703.
- Description:
- First edition of Astry's uncommon charge and his only work, devoted exclusively to criminal law and the role of the jury, his exposition on the jury followed by what is essentially an elementary treatise on crime, from high treason to misdemeanors
- Condition:
- Original unlettered sheep, the spine chipped and strengthened with tape, a clean working copy, with the bookplate of Harold Hemsley; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79542
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, criminal law, juries, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Evans, W.D.
- Title:
- A Charge to the Grand Jury, at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, Held by Adjournment at Preston, on the 16th Day of January, 1817
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. and J. Harrop, in the Market-Place, Manchester, 1817.
- Description:
- An uncommon part of the turmoil existing during the "year without a summer" of 1816, as crop failure coupled with Manchester textile industry unemployment caused great hardship, this charge given by Evans as Manchester's first stipendiary magistrate
- Condition:
- Modern printed boards, some browning, else a good usable copy; vi+21 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76668
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Pruitt, Paul M., David I. Durham, Sally E Hadden
- Title:
- Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822-1825
- Publisher:
- University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, 2013.
- Description:
- A fine scholarly edition of three grand jury charges delivered by Judge Tait, the Jeffersonian democrat who became Alabama's first federal judge, "offer[ing] exceptional examples of law and legal culture as it was developing on the Alabama frontier"
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, as new, 120 pages; Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library Number Eight
- Book No.:
- W-77830
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Alabama, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Christian, Edward
- Title:
- A Vindication of the Criminal Law, and the Administration of Public Justice in England, from the Imputation of Cruelty: In a Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury at the Assizes Held at Ely
- Publisher:
- Printed by Richard Watts . . . For Clarke and Sons [etc.], London, 1819.
- Description:
- Christian's charge given as Chief Justice of Ely as the movement to abolish the death penalty gained force, contending that as a practical matter juries and judges, and alternate punishments, greatly mitigated the imposition of capital punishment
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, the title and verso of the last leaf dusty and marked, a bit strained, a usable copy; 77 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76672
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- criminal law, capital punishment, juries, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Title:
- The Charge of J[ustice] P[age] to the Grand Jury of M[iddlesex], on Saturday May 22, 1736
- Publisher:
- London, 1737.
- Description:
- An artful and well-deserved satire of Sir Francis Page, known as 'the hanging judge' by his contemporaries, singled out in universal disapproval by Pope both in the 'Dunciad' and his 'Imitations of Horace', by Henry Fielding, and by Dr. Johnson
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, attractive
- Book No.:
- W-55117
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, humor, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Rush, Jacob
- Title:
- Charges, and Extracts of Charges, on Moral and Religious Subjects, Delivered at Sundry Times, by the Honourable Jacob Rush, President of the Third District of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions . . . of Pennsylvania. Cohen 9680
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by John G. Stanly, Lenox, 1829.
- Description:
- The rare last edition of nine grand jury charges delivered by Rush, the noted Philadelphia lawyer and judge (and brother of Benjamin Rush), including one on oaths, another on gaming, and a last on duelling; three copies in OCLC, none in a law library
- Condition:
- Original sheep-backed marbled boards, quite worn but sound, some foxing, yet a crisp usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-75781
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Partridge, Samuel
- Title:
- Seven Charges Given to Grand Juries, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
- Publisher:
- Sold by Lackington, Allen, and Co., London, 1809.
- Description:
- A rare sammelband, bringing together seven grand jury charges, four on sedition and related matters and two on alehouses, the first dedicated to Edmund Burke, together with his response in acceptance; four copies in OCLC, one in this country
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, light browning, else a usable copy, with the half-title and with two additional leaves between pages 17 and 19; 59 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76228
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, justices of peace
- Author:
- Marriott, James
- Title:
- The Rights and Privileges of Both the Universities and of the University of Cambridge in Particular Defended, In a Charge to the Grand Jury [at Cambridge] Also An Argument in the Case of the Colleges of Christ and Emanuel
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University [etc.], Cambridge, 1769.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original stitched self wraps, the title and last leaf quite dusty, disbound, else usable; 36 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74255
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- poor law, Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Babington, Zachary
- Title:
- Advice to Grand Jurors in Cases of Blood . . . Asserting . . . that the Grand Jury ought to find it Murther, where their Evidence is that the Party intended to be Indicted had his Hands in Blood, and did kill the other Person [etc.]. Wing B248
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Amery at the Peacock [etc.], London, 1677.
- Description:
- First edition of Babington's only work, contending that grand juries must return "true bills" in all murder cases, mitigating circumstances to be left to the petit jury, "especially (in Holdsworth's words) in cases of homicide arising out of duels"
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered blind ruled sheep, somewhat rubbed, else especially clean and crisp, with the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79397
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Grand Jury Charges, juries, Law of Duels
- Author:
- Thorpe
- Title:
- Sergeant Thorpe Judge of Assize for the Northern Circuit, His Charge, As it was delivered to the Grand Jury at Yorke Assizes the twentieth of March, 1648
- Publisher:
- London, 1649.
- Description:
- Lower margin trimmed with some loss of text
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, the title and last leaf quite darkened, light browning elsewhere, yet a crisp working copy; 30 pages
- Book No.:
- W-79188
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges
- Author:
- Gonson, John
- Title:
- The Charge of Sir John Gonson, Kt. to the Grand Jury of the City and Liberty of Westminster, &c. At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Held the Twenty fourth Day of April 1728 in Westminster Hall [etc.]. ESTC N27645
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing . . . near West Smithfield, London, 1728.
- Description:
- First edition of the first grand jury charge of Gonson, the Inner Temple barrister and "zealous prosecutor" depicted by Hogarth (twice) in "A Harlot's Progress", in satiric poetry, and--for his evangelical fervour -- by Pope in his "An Essay on Man"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, crimson morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, very clean and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80196
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, justices of peace, Poetry, Law and Literature, humor
- Author:
- Burke, Richard
- Title:
- A Charge Delivered to the Grand-Jury, at a Session of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, For the City, and County of the City of Bristol, Held at the Guildhall there, On Saturday the 6yh of April, 1793 [etc.] [no copy in a law library in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Rudhall:-- and sold by J. Norton [etc.], Bristol and London, 1793.
- Description:
- Sole, rare edition of the charge by the Lincoln's Inn barrister and brother of Edmund Burke, its printing due to the latter's contribution, "a stinging contrast between the proclaimed goals of the French revolutionaries and the contrary results"
- Condition:
- Modern stabbed marbled wraps, a small hole in one leaf and with the repaired half title (legibility preserved), else quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80254
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, English constitutional law, obscenity, FRANCE
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