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- Author:
- Wolfgang, Marvin E., et al. (comps.)
- Title:
- Domestic Criminal Violence, A Selected Bibliography
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, a bit wrinkled, but quite sound; 363 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90124
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Family Law, Mare Island Case, marriage, Bibliography
- 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:
- Title:
- Minutes of the Proceedings before the Lords Committees for Privileges, On the Claim to the Title of Earl of Anglesey
- Publisher:
- N.p., Dublin, 1771.
- Description:
- A rare work recording the final decision upon the English estates part of "the most dramatic case ever arising under British law", memorialized in part in Smollett's "Peregrine Pickle" and featuring multiple bigamous marriages, forgery and perjury
- Condition:
- Original stabbed marbled wraps, lightly worn, a very good crisp copy, 64 pages, with the date of 1771 changed manually to 1772; five copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76948
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, law of heraldry, Law and Literature, criminal law, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- Crim. Con., Actions and Trials and Other Legal Proceedings Relating to Marriage before the Passing of the Present Divorce Act
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1857?].
- Description:
- A review of the most famous crim con cases spanning three centuries, in which husbands sued their wives' paramours for civil damages caused by the "criminal conversation" and ensuing loss of consortium; with two involving Thomas Erskine as counsel
- Condition:
- Original 1/4 black morocco, gilt, over marbled boards, showing wear and somewhat strained, else a good untrimmed copy
- Book No.:
- W-71567
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- criminal conversatn, trials, marriage, divorce
- 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:
- Anno Mariae Primo. Actes made in the Parliamente begonne and holden at Westminster the seconde daye of Apryll [1554] in the firste yeare of the reygne of oure moste gratious Soueraygne Ladye, Marye [until] the v daye of Maye [etc.]. S.T.C. 9443.5
- Publisher:
- Excusum . . . in aedibus Iohannis Cawodi . . . Mense Maio [etc.], London, 1554.
- Description:
- A rare, contemporary printing of the legislation of Mary's second parliament, the final parliament during which she reigned as sole monarch, including the act [c.2] specifying in great detail the terms of the marriage between her and Philip of Spain
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, else a good, very crisp copy with ample margins; no copy in ESTC outside the British Isles
- Book No.:
- W-79136
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- Acts, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- The Duke of Norfolk's Case: With Reasons for Passing his Bill. Wing D2514
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, London?, 1699?.
- Description:
- A rare part of a major Parliamentary divorce case, one involving England's premier dukedom (and two admitted adulterers), and possibly the first divorce bill in English history not first to pass through the ecclesiastical courts; four copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Broadsheet measuring about 8x13 inches, browned, edges chipped and one margin strengthened, all legibility preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79642
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, marriage, adultery, Acts, Parliament, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Bell, Robert
- Title:
- Report of a Case of Legitimacy, Under a Putative Marriage, Tried before the Second Division of the Court of Session in February 1811
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bell & Bradfute . . . and Butterworth & Son, Edinburgh, 1825.
- Description:
- A rare case in which an heiress married privately while underage, years later marrying again to an unknowing second husband, their sole child challenged as illegitimate; with the arguments of counsel (including Francis Jeffrey) reproduced at length
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, crimson morocco label, gilt, ex-library, some browning and foxing, else a good untrimmed copy
- Book No.:
- W-74457
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, marriage
- 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:
- 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:
- Wolfgang, Marvin E., et al. (comps.)
- Title:
- Criminal Violence and Race, A Selected Bibliography
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized stapled wraps, sound; 79 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90125
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Family Law, Mare Island Case, marriage, criminal law, Discrimination, Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in Full Parliament . . . Published by Order of the House of Peers
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, London, 1776.
- Description:
- A rare example of the trial of a peeress in the House of Lords (with the Duchess personally appearing and testifying), finding her guilty of bigamy and essentially ending the ecclesiastical action of 'jactitation', the denial of a previous marriage
- Condition:
- Original buff wraps, untrimmed, a lovely, unsophisticated folio
- Book No.:
- W-62376
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, marriage
- Author:
- Cockburn, William
- Title:
- The Clerk's Assistant in the Practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts: Containing the Method of Proceedings there. Extracted from The best Books of Practice, And more regularly and clearly laid down than has hitherto been done [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Main, in Dame-Street, Dublin, 1753.
- Description:
- The rare first Dublin edition of a comprehensive work, praised by Holdsworth as "clear and concise", treating of criminal causes, divorce, guardians, libel and defamation, marriage (several chapters), and wills inter alia; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning and new endpapers, else quite crisp and well-preserved, with the subscribers list; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79075
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- biography, Ecclesiastical Law, SCOTLAND, marriage, divorce, libel and slander, criminal law
- Author:
- Wolfgang, Marvin E., et al. (comps.)
- Title:
- Criminal Violence and Race, A Selected Bibliography
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a good sound copy; 148 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90126
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Family Law, Mare Island Case, marriage, criminal law, Discrimination, Penology, Bibliography
- Author:
- Lystad, Mary (comp.)
- Title:
- Violence at Home, An Annotated Bibliography
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, sound; 95 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90121
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Family Law, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Mariae primo. Actes made in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the second day of Aprill [1554], in the first yeere of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Ladye Marie [until] the fyfth day of Maye [etc.]. S.T.C. 9444.4; Beale S250b
- Publisher:
- Excusum . . . in edibus Iohannis Cawodi [?R. Jugge] [etc.], London, 1554 [?1572].
- Description:
- An uncommon printing of the legislation of Mary's second parliament, the final parliament during which she reigned as sole monarch, including the act [c.2] specifying in great detail the terms of the marriage between her and Philip of Spain
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, some staining, else quite crisp with excellent margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79206
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, marriage
- 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:
- Stiles, Henry Reed
- Title:
- Bundling, Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America
- Publisher:
- Privately Issued for Subscribers Only, n.p., n.d..
- Description:
- A lighthearted yet serious look at bundling, the practice of sharing beds while clothed, as a matter of necessity and of courtship, with the principal emphasis on colonial America
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, joints fraying; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-67213
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- marriage, women's law
- 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:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the Antiquities and Laws of England. Third Edition. Eller 240; Lauechli 553
- Publisher:
- Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1771.
- Description:
- The most complete edition of Blackstone's legal essays, said in part to be responsible for his appointment as Solicitor General, and including his famed essay on (and text of) Magna Carta, "of the first importance for the constitutional lawyer"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the boards rubbed and marked, the first and last blanks somewhat foxed and dusty, else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78133
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Family Law, jurisprudence, marriage, Magna Carta, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Koch, Harry Walter
- Title:
- California Marriage, Dissolution, and Living-Together Law
- Publisher:
- The Ken-Books, San Francisco, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed wraps, somewhat worn, but quite sound; 99 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91272
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- marriage, divorce, California
- Author:
- Stotter, Lawrence H.
- Title:
- To Put Asunder, The Laws of Matrimonial Strife. An Introduction to the Seminal Anglo-American Literature and Laws of Domestic Relations up to the Year 1900, with Supporting Bibliography and Comments
- Publisher:
- Regents Press, Berkeley, 2011.
- Description:
- An exquisitely produced history of Western family law since its inception, with the emphasis upon that of England and the United States; with over two dozen illustrations and a further three dozen typographical embellishments
- Condition:
- Original oversized cloth, as new in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-75889
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Family Law, divorce, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in Full Parliament . . . Published by Order of the House of Peers
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, London, 1776.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 crimson morocco, some light staining, else attractive
- Book No.:
- W-52240
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, marriage
- 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:
- The Young Clerk's Magazine: or English Law-Repository: Containing A Variety of the most useful Precedents of . . . Bonds, Bills, Recognizances . . . Gifts, Grants, Leases . . . To which is added The Doctrine of Fines and Recoveries [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling . . . for J. Hodges &c, London, 1740.
- Description:
- A rare, early edition of a work published much of the 18th century, providing guidance on conveyancing matters in the largest sense (including marriage contracts, wills, and charterparties) encompassing all public business; one copy in ESTC in the UK
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, a bit scraped, the spine rubbed, ?label lacking, else quite clean with good margins and the two plates; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79741
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- Every Man Law Books, Forms & Form Books, conveyancing, marriage, maritime law
- Author:
- Chedzoy, Alan
- Title:
- A Scandalous Woman, The Story of Caroline Norton
- Publisher:
- Allison & Busby, London, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps, showing wear, but usable; 312 pages
- Book No.:
- W-69669
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY, legal reform, women's law, marriage
- Author:
- Carlson, Eric Josef
- Title:
- Marriage and the English Reformation
- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-64667
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, renaissance
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Gracious Speech to the Lords & Commons, Together with the Lord Chancellor's, At the opening of the Parliament, On the 8th day of May, 1661. Wing C3017. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1661.
- Description:
- The speech in which Charles II announces his proposed marriage to Catherine of Braganza, cementing England's relations with Portugal and France as against Spain, the potential religious conflict (Catherine a Roman Catholic) skilfully downplayed
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, definite browning, the title's lower right blank corner torn away, else usable, with the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80070
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Parliament, marriage, PORTUGAL, international law, FRANCE, SPAIN, Religion
- Author:
- Crow, Duncan
- Title:
- Theresa: The Story of the Yelverton Case
- Publisher:
- Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41166
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, marriage, trials, women's law
- Author:
- Harrington, Joel F.
- Title:
- Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-59646
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- marriage, 16TH CENTURY, women's law, GERMANY
- Author:
- Pedersen, Frederik
- Title:
- Marriage Disputes in Medieval England
- Publisher:
- Hambledon Press, London, 2000.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-68712
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Staves, Susan
- Title:
- Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1883
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-50182
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, marriage, women's law
- Author:
- Overbury, Thomas
- Title:
- His Wife. With Additions of New Characters, and many other Witty Conceits never before printed. The sixteenth Impression. S.T.C. 18919
- Publisher:
- Printed by Iohn Haviland, for A. Crooke [etc.], London, 1638.
- Description:
- Overbury's sole known work, including forty seven verses patterned upon Shakespeare, indirectly praised by Ben Jonson, with later additions including one conjecturally by John Donne, all subsumed within the tragedy of Overbury's alleged murder
- Condition:
- Modern Cambridge style panelled calf, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, margins cut a bit close, else quite luscious; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80227
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- humor, marriage, Poetry, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Egerton, Judy
- Title:
- Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode. Featuring a DVD narrated by Alan Bennett
- Publisher:
- National Gallery Company, London, 2010.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original illustrated boards, as new; with the DVD in the protective pocket affixed to the rear pastdown
- Book No.:
- W-76437
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Legal Art, marriage, biography
- Author:
- Sokol, B.J. and Mary
- Title:
- Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-73059
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Shakespeare, marriage, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Neufeld, E[phraim]
- Title:
- Ancient Hebrew Marriage Laws, With Special References to General Semitic Laws and Customs
- Publisher:
- Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1944.
- Description:
- An impressive work, seeking to provide a "comprehensive survey" of Hebrew marriage, treating also of parents and children and of slavery when appropriate; with comparisons drawn to other ancient laws and customs, including Babylonian, Hindu, and Arab
- Condition:
- Black cloth, quite marked and rubbed and a bit strained, but a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-69590
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, marriage, law of slavery
- Author:
- Laiou, Angeliki E. (ed.)
- Title:
- Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies
- Publisher:
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60945
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- ancient law, MEDIEVAL, marriage, criminal law
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