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- Author:
- Title:
- The Contentes of this boke. Fyrste the boke for a Justice of peace. The boke that teacheth to kepe a court Baron, or a lete [and] a courte hundred. The boke[s] called returna Brevium [and] Carta Foedi [and] the kynge's Escheker [etc.]. S.T.C. 14877
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Bertheleti [imprints vary], London, 1544.
- Description:
- The collection of highly practical treatises designed for justices of the peace, sheriffs, bailiffs and other local officials, this being the edition selected by Holdsworth as representative, its contents termed "a useful handbook [and] essential"
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, all edges gilt, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Huntington Library duplicate, quite clean and even luscious; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79387
- Price:
- $ 6750.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Every Man Law Books, courts, Exchequer, sheriffs, Forms & Form Books
- Author:
- Leflar, Robert A.
- Title:
- Internal Operating Procedures of Appellate Courts [Prepared under the Auspices of The American Bar Foundation in Collaboration with The Appellate Judges' Conference]
- Publisher:
- American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91561
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts, appeals
- Author:
- Style, William
- Title:
- The Practical Register, Or the Accomplish'd Attorney: Consisting of Rules, Orders, And . . . Observations Concerning the Practice of the Common Law in his Majesties Courts at Westminster . . . particularly . . . Kings Bench. Second Edition. Wing S6100
- Publisher:
- Printed for Thos. Dring . . . and John Leigh [etc.], London, 1670.
- Description:
- Second, expanded edition of a popular work (and the first to appear following the Restoration), called by John Baker "a useful guide to modern practice decisions, collected at a time when the law reports were somewhat thin or non-existent"
- Condition:
- Modern Cambridge style blind tooled panelled calf, the spine gilt ruled, quite clean with good margins and the first and last blanks; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79807
- Price:
- $ 425.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Mecham, L. Ralph (dir.)
- Title:
- Report of the Proceedings of the Judicial Conference of the United States, September 18-19, 1986
- Publisher:
- Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Washington, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 103 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30576
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Boke for a Iustyce of peace neuer soo wel and diligently set forthe [with] Carta Foedi [with] Modvs Tenendi Cvriam Baronis [with] Retvrna Brevivm [with] A Trve Copy of the Ordinance . . . in the Kynges Eschker. STC 14873; 7696.7; 7713; 15583.7; 20899.5
- Publisher:
- in Aedibus T. Berthel[eti] [imprints vary; all by Berthelet], London, 1535-40?.
- Description:
- A unique collection of rare editions of five medieval English law books, all printed in the early sixteenth century, two the copies recorded in the Short Title Catalogue, the first lacking its title, else especially clean and complete
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind stamped calf, worn, ?a unique binding with panels similar to Oldham's HM26 and 28 (front) and HM25 (back); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79342
- Price:
- $ 10000.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, Procedure, taxation
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-68099
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Leigh, Valentine
- Title:
- The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Lands, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes . . . of the measuring of all kindes of Landes, be it Meadow, Pasture, Errable, Wood, Hill, or Dale . . . Newly Imprinted and corrected. S.T.C. 15419
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by John Windet, for Robart Dexter [etc.], London, 1592.
- Description:
- Among the earliest works on English surveying, with much on the legal aspects of local courts and the administration of manors, "a popular, practical guide, largely for self surveyors . . . mentioned in John Norden's standard [17th century] work"
- Condition:
- Early calf, very neatly rebacked, worn but quite attractive, lightish marginal staining; with the two tables and the first blank, the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79415
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- surveying, Real Property, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Courts
- Publisher:
- Nat'l Advisory Commission on Crim. Justice Standards & Goals, Washington, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized printed wraps; 358 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30575
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Trial of Lieutenant General Sir John Murray, Bart. by a General Court Martial Held at Winchester, On Monday the 16th of January, 1815, and continued by Adjournment, till Monday the 6th of February, 1815. Taken in Short Hand By Mr. W.B. Gurney [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, London, 1815.
- Description:
- One of the most debated English court-martials, Murray acquitted on all charges save one (which was dispensed with), though Sir John Fortescue writing that Murray "must be pilloried . . . without mercy as a cowardly and dishonourable man"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 1/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed, light browning, else a very good copy, with a two-page manuscript index and the folding frontispiece
- Book No.:
- W-77057
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Wasby, Stephen L., Thomas B. Marvell et al
- Title:
- Volume and Delay in State Appellate Courts: Problems and Responses
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, well-preserved; 119 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91484
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- An Ordinance For Adjourning part of Easter Term. 1654. Whereas many abuses and corruptions are crept into the ordinary course and administration of Justice, both in Law and Equity . . . Saturday April 8, 1654 [etc.]. Wing C7127; Steele I, 3031
- Publisher:
- Printed by William du-Gard, and Henry Hills [etc.], London, 1654.
- Description:
- The ordinance launching Cromwell's effort to reform the courts, "one of the two innovative accomplishments of the protectorate", leading to the 1654 Chancery Ordinance (drafted by William Sheppard), reforms not fully realized until the 19th century
- Condition:
- Broadside measuring about 8x14 inches, left margin partly trimmed (no text affected), the imprint faint, light browning, sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79520
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform, English Commonwealth, Broadside
- Author:
- Cashman, Victoria S. and Theodore J. Fetter
- Title:
- State Courts: Options for the Future
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, rubbed but quite sound; 58 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30635
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Wilkinson, John
- Title:
- A Treatise Collected ovt of the Statutes of this Kingdome, and . . . the Lawes, Concerning the Office and Authorities of Coroners and Sheriffes. Together with an easie . . . method for the keeping of a Court Leet, Court Baron, and Hundred Court. Wing W2244
- Publisher:
- No Publisher Stated, London, 1641.
- Description:
- A rare edition of the first treatise by a named author on the coroner and on the sheriff, written by a Barnard's Inn attorney and appearing in ten editions throughout the century; with separate sections on each officer and court; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over boards, somewhat rubbed and tightly bound and some light browning and foxing, ex Royal Historical Society; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79482
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- coroners, sheriffs, courts
- Author:
- Impey, John
- Title:
- The New Instructor Clericalis, Stating the Authority, Jurisdiction, and Modern Practice of the Court of Common Pleas. With Directions for commencing and defending Actions, entering up Judgments, suing out Executions [etc.]. The Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, by His Majesty's Law Printers [etc.], London, 1786.
- Description:
- A rare early edition of Impey's lucid, richly knowledgeable work on the Court of Common Pleas which, with his like work on the Court of King's Bench, have been called "the first systematic account of the practice of the two great common law courts"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint cracked but holding, a clean usable copy; two copies in ESTC, neither in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-77371
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- pleading, pleading, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Rules of The Superior Court of the State of California In and For the County of Alameda and Order Modifying
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue stapled wraps, some staining inside; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51997
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- California, courts
- Author:
- Palmer, John?
- Title:
- The Attorney and Agent's New Table of Costs In the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas: Containing The Fees and Disbursements on the Part of the Plaintiff and Defendant, in the Prosecution and Defence of Actions real, personal, and mixed [etc.]. 2d ed
- Publisher:
- Printed by Gilbert and Plummer; and sold by T. Whieldon [etc.], London, 1787.
- Description:
- A rare edition of an enormously successful work, the first to explain to a practitioner how to prepare a bill of costs, treating of patents, bankruptcy, probate, criminal proceedings, and the exchequer inter alia; no copy in ESTC, one in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original paper backed boards, rubbed, the joints cracking but holding, clean and unsophisticated in original state; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79746
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- courts, habeas corpus, criminal law, patents, bankruptcy, Wills, Doctors Commons
- Author:
- Agard, Arthur and Thomas Powell
- Title:
- The Repertorie of Records . . . with A briefe introductiue Index of the Records of the Chancery and Tower . . . As Also, A most exact Calender of all those Records [etc.]. S.T.C. 194.1 and Addenda [this copy with A3 signed A2]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for B. Fisher [etc.], London, 1631.
- Description:
- The first printed effort to record and calendar England's public records, undertaken by Agard and after his death continued by Powell, its dedication to "Mercury" conjectured to be Bacon and thus an important part of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked, ?original label preserved, browning to edges of title, else quite crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79892
- Price:
- $ 600.00
- Category:
- courts, MEDIEVAL, Procedure, Every Man Law Books, Shakespeare
- Author:
- Title:
- Proceedings of a General Court-Martial. . .upon the Trial of Lieutenant-General Sir John Mordaunt [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, London, 1758.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54661
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- Rules of the Superior Court, County of Solano, State of California, Adopted July 1, A.D. 1913
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original gray stapled wraps, worn but sound; 14 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51993
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- California, courts
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts [etc.]. Wing C4930; ESTC R504744 [the edition identified in November, 2014, two copies located in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman, London, 1648.
- Description:
- The rare, just identified second edition of Coke's exhaustive examination of English courts, comprising the fourth (and last) part of his famed Institutes, treating of King's Bench, Common Pleas, Chancery, Star Chamber and several dozen other courts
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled sheep, quite worn, rebacked, some browning, final blanks quite chipped, yet a sturdy copy; with the frontispiece portrait
- Book No.:
- W-79255
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts
- 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:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- The Compleat Court-Keeper: or, Land-Steward's Assistant. Containing, First, The Nature of Courts-Leet and Courts-Baron [and four other parts]. Third Edition [bound with] Books printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys . . . in Fleet-street
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt . . . for Bernard Lintott [etc.], London, 1724 & 1728?.
- Description:
- An early edition of what I believe is Jacob's first work (of eighteen) a work which Holdsworth termed "very successful . . . and comprehensive", bound with Bernard Lintot's substantial [28 page] final catalogue, arranged by size and priced
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, the front joint just cracking but very firm, the spine ends a bit chipped, else very clean and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79921
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- courts, Every Man Law Books, justices of peace, Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Stott, Jr., E. Keith, Theodore J. Fetter, et al
- Title:
- Rural Courts, The Effect of Space and Distance on the Administration of Justice
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Denver, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, the spine somewhat sunned, else a very good copy; 113 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91637
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Adye, Stephen Payne
- Title:
- A Treatise on Courts Martial. To Which is Added, An Essay on Military Punishments and Rewards. The Third Edition, With Additions and Amendments [with the 1785 dated title page; seven copies in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-Street, London, 1785.
- Description:
- A rare early edition of the first work devoted primarily to the English law of courts martial and the last published in Adye's life, becoming "the standard work for military judicial practice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, light foxing and browning, moreso to the first and last leaves, a very good copy with the advertising leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78870
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- A Brief Account of the Powers Given to, and Exercised by, The Burgess-Court of Westminster. And Some Reasons for Continuing and Enlarging those Powers, by Amending the Act of the 27th of Queen Elizabeth [1585]
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1756?.
- Description:
- A rare part of the debate over the governance of Westminster, "that most anomalous of all manorial boroughs", seeking to enlarge the powers of its Burgess-Court (and leading to the establishment of its "Annoyance Jury"), ultimately abolished in 1901
- Condition:
- Original stabbed self-wraps, disbound, somewhat dusty, a fragile but usable copy, 16 pages; no copy in ESTC, one in COPAC
- Book No.:
- W-75939
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- courts, London
- Author:
- Title:
- Diversite de Covrtes lour iurisdictions et alia necessaria et vtilia. S.T.C. 10953; Beale T129; McKerrow & Ferguson 53
- Publisher:
- Nicholas Hill for Henry Smith?, London, 1545.
- Description:
- The rare, final edition (and the only Smith printing) of one of just a handful of early English legal tracts, treating of royal and other courts, including King's Bench, the Common Bench, Chancery, the Exchequer, and the Marshalsea inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, light browning, else a very good copy with ample margins and the occasional early annotation, four copies in ESTC; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78988
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, courts
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly [for the Selden Society], London, 1888.
- Description:
- Original edition of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original buckram, gilt, showing definite wear, unevenly faded, private ownership signature, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71548
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Title:
- Citizens Study Committee on Judicial Organization, Report to Governor Patrick J. Lucey, January 1973
- Publisher:
- By the Committee, Madison, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated oversized wraps, a very good copy; 417 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91616
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform, Isle of Wight
- Author:
- Prendergast, Harris
- Title:
- The Law Relating to Officers in the Army
- Publisher:
- Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, Military Library, Whitehall, London, 1849.
- Description:
- First edition of a rare work written by the Lincoln's Inn barrister who undertook a similar work on naval officers, with chapters on prize and booty, criminal liabilities, rank and pay, courts martial and much else; one copy in OCLC, two in RLIN
- Condition:
- Original limp embossed crimson cloth, gilt-lettered, a trifle strained yet a pretty copy, the edges and endpapers marbled
- Book No.:
- W-73913
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- military law, courts martial
- Author:
- Marvell, Thomas B.
- Title:
- Appellate Courts and Lawyers, Information Gathering in the Adversary System
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press, Westport, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47509
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Booth, William
- Title:
- The Compleat Sollicitor, Performing His Duty: and Teaching his Clyent . . . in His Majesties Superior Courts at Westminster: As in the Mayors Court, Court of Hustings, and other Inferior Courts, both in the City of London, and elswhere [etc.]. Wing B3738A
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1666.
- Description:
- First edition of the first substantial treatise expressly devoted to the English solicitor, with chapters on all royal courts, the Exchequer, the Court of Requests, the Sheriffs Court, the Marshalsea, the Star Chamber, and the Court of Admiralty
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, signature effaced on the title, light browning and some staining, else sound, with the first blank (chipped); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79664
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts, London, sheriffs, prisons, Star Chamber, admiralty, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Title:
- Judicial Appointments. A Letter to the Right Honourable Baron Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Bosworth & Harrison, 215, Regent Street, London, 1857.
- Description:
- A rare reformist tract with a decidedly populist slant, proposing that the judges of the county courts (then established for some ten years) were a fertile source for appointment to the central courts at Westminster; no copy in COPAC, OCLC or RLIN
- Condition:
- Disbound, the stitching loose, a just usable copy; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74058
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- equity, courts
- Author:
- Finlason, William
- Title:
- A Few Words on the Law, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Ought to Be: With Special Reference to County Courts Suits, and Actions at Law
- Publisher:
- V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1850.
- Description:
- An uncommon tract written by a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple and special pleader who served for almost a half century as The Times legal reporter, contending that the rules of pleading should apply in the newly established county courts
- Condition:
- Original ?self-stabbed wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 31 pages; six copies in OCLC, one in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-76905
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- pleading, courts
- Author:
- Wilkinson, John
- Title:
- The Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs. With Directions how and in what manner to execute the said Offices . . . with an easie and plain Method for the Keeping of Court Leets, Court Barons, and Hundred Courts. Fourth Edition. Wing W2246A
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. Flesher, J Streater, and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- Final edition of the first treatise by a named author on both the coroner and on the sheriff, written by a Barnard's Inn attorney and appearing in several editions throughout the century; with separate sections on each officer and on each local court
- Condition:
- Early calf, gilt lettered, all edges marbled, the spine rubbed, new endpapers, quite clean and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79290
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- coroners, sheriffs, courts
- Author:
- Booth, William (attr.)
- Title:
- The Compleat Solicitor, Entring-Clerk and Attorney, Fully Instructed in the Practice, Methods and Clerkship of all his Majesties Courts of Equity and Common-Law Superiour and Interiour, as well those at Westminster and in the City of London [&c]. Wing B3738E
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns [etc.], London, 1683.
- Description:
- Final edition of the first substantial treatise expressly devoted to the English solicitor, with chapters on all royal courts, the Exchequer, the Court of Requests, the Sheriffs Court, the Marshalsea, and the Court of Admiralty inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, rebacked, some browning and the occasional repaired tear, mainly marginal, else sound and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79872
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- courts, London, criminal law, admiralty
- Author:
- Kitchin, John
- Title:
- Le Court Leete & Court Baron . . . les cases & matters necessaries pur Seneschals de ceux courts a scier, & pur les Students de les measons de Chauncerie . . . Court de Marshalsey, Auncient demesne, Court de Pipowders [etc.]. STC 15021; Beale T373 and T378
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Totelli [etc.], London, 1592.
- Description:
- The work which--with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters, complemented by an edition of the Returna Brevium bound in with a separate title
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered lozenges, rebacked, signatures of Richard Norwood and Jno Prynne, quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79325
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Kitchin, John
- Title:
- Le Court Leete & Court Baron . . . les cases & matters necessaries pur Seneschals de ceux courts a scier, & pur les Students de les measons de Chauncerie . . . Court de Marshalsey, Auncient demesne, Court de Pipowders [etc.]. STC 15021; Beale T373 and T378
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Totelli [etc.], London, 1592.
- Description:
- The work which--with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters, complemented by an edition of the Returna Brevium bound in with a separate title
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered lozenges, rebacked, signatures of Richard Norwood and Jno Prynne, quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79325
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for Taking away the Fee of Damage Cleere
- Publisher:
- Printed by Edward Husband and John Field [etc.], London, 1650.
- Description:
- The broadside officially publicizing the act of the Commonwealth Parliament abolishing the vexatious fee of court called damage cleer or damna clericorum, in which court clerks had been entitled to an automatic 10% of all judgments
- Condition:
- Attractively matted; with the Commonwealth seal, black-letter
- Book No.:
- W-42994
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- legal ephemera, courts, Interregnum
- Author:
- Agard, Arthur and Thomas Powell
- Title:
- The Repertorie of Records . . . with A briefe introductiue Index of the Records of the Chancery and Tower . . . As Also, A most exact Calender of all those Records [etc.]. S.T.C. 194.1 and Addenda [this copy with A3 properly signed] [this copy unique?]
- Publisher:
- Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for B. Fisher [etc.], London, 1631.
- Description:
- The first printed effort to record and calendar England's public records, undertaken by Agard and after his death continued by Powell, its dedication to "Mercury" conjectured to be Bacon and thus an important part of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy
- Condition:
- Contemporary mottled sheep, somewhat scraped, neatly rebacked, the final blank chipped, with A1 (otherwise blank); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79330
- Price:
- $ 600.00
- Category:
- courts, MEDIEVAL, Procedure, Every Man Law Books, Shakespeare
- Author:
- Kitchin, John
- Title:
- Le Court Leete, et Court Baron collect per Iohn Kytchin de Greys Inne . . . les cases et matters necessaries pur Seneschals de ceux courts a scier, pur les Students de les measons de Chauncerie [etc.]. STC 15017 & addenda [two copies, including this copy]
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Octobris quarto [etc.], London, 1580.
- Description:
- The rare early variant printing of a work which--together with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters; with the preface dated 10 Nov 1581
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered blind lozenges, later label, lightly rubbed, very fresh with generous margins; the Taussig copy--not in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-79141
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Kitchin, John
- Title:
- Le Court Leete, et Court Baron collect per Iohn Kytchin de Greys Inne . . . les cases et matters necessaries pur Seneschals de ceux courts a scier, pur les Students de les measons de Chauncerie [etc.]. STC 15017 & addenda [two copies, including this copy]
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Octobris quarto [etc.], London, 1580.
- Description:
- The rare early variant printing of a work which--together with Lambarde's "Eirenarcha"--remains essential to the understanding of Tudor local courts and government, treating of both civil and criminal matters; with the preface dated 10 Nov 1581
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered blind lozenges, later label, lightly rubbed, very fresh with generous margins; the Taussig copy--not in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-79141
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, courts, criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Cummings, Homer and Carl McFarland
- Title:
- Federal Justice, Chapters in the History of Justice and the Federal Executive
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Company, New York, 1937.
- Description:
- Carl McFarland's personal copy of "the principal secondary historical work on the Attorney General", with his ownership stamp in red ink ("Carl McFarland") on the front pastedown, and an informal sheet outlining the work in pencil laid in
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, gilt, rubbed, the spine moreso and somewhat faded, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77274
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Task Force Report: The Courts
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1967.
- Description:
- Supporting materials of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, wrinkled and discolored, but sound; 178 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90518
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Letter of the Secretary of War, Communicating . . . Military Commissions by which were tried and convicted E.W. Andrews, of South Carolina; J.M. Brown and C.C. Reese of Georgia; J.L. McMillan and Neill McGill, of North Carolina
- Publisher:
- N.p., Washington, 1865.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, sound
- Book No.:
- W-54770
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts martial
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- Ordinances Made By The Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Lord Verulam, and Vicount of Saint Albans, being then Lord Chancellor. For the better and more regular Administration of Justice in the Chancery [etc.]. Wing B316; Gibson 212
- Publisher:
- Printed for Mathew Walbanke, and Lawrence Chapman, London, 1642.
- Description:
- Bacon's signal contribution to Chancery, largely "fixing the practice of the court till the reforms of the last century" (in Holdsworth's words), 100+ in number, procedural and substantive, the principal evidence of Bacon's years as Lord Chancellor
- Condition:
- Original vellum, darkened, definite browning and some marginal staining, small repair to the title's margin, contents disbound, in a protective sleeve
- Book No.:
- W-79374
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- equity, codification, courts
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- The Third Part of the Institutes Of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall causes [bound with] The Fourth Part of the Institutes . . . Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. Wing C4963 and C4931
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Crooke, W. Leake [and eleven others], London, 1669.
- Description:
- Early editions (the fourth), in which Coke first examines exhaustively and with a comprehensiveness not previously attained the criminal law of England, and then the English law courts, including King's Bench, Chancery, Star Chamber, and many others
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers, some light browning, else quite clean, with both portraits, the first backed
- Book No.:
- W-79214
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- The Court-Keeper's Guide For the Keeping of Courts Leet and Courts Baron. . .Seventh Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by the assigns of Rich. Atkins, and Edw. Atkins [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the spine laid down; quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-11832
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- courts, Every Man Law Books
- Author:
- Title:
- The Maner of kepynge a court Baron and Lete wyth dyuers fourmes of entreis, plaintes, processes, presentmentes, and other maters determinable there. Newely Imprynted and corrected. S.T.C. 7718; Beale T198
- Publisher:
- Impress. Londini per me Henricum Smyth [colophon], London, 1546.
- Description:
- A rare edition of guides to local courts and their practice, with an "ancestry stretching back to the thirteenth century" in John Baker's words, holding pleas of land and exercizing consierable social control; three copies in ESTC, two imperfect
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 sheep over marbled boards, somewhat rubbed, lacking five leaves [A2-A6], else quite clean with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79808
- Price:
- $ 1200.00
- Category:
- courts, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a bit rubbed and marked, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-70368
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Neely, Richard
- Title:
- How Courts Govern America
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-64329
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform
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