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- The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity . . . Containing a Collection of Rules or Maxims, with the Doctrine upon them . . . The Whole Designed to reduce the Knowledge of the Laws of England to a more regular Science [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . .for Daniel Browne [and three others], London, 1749.
- Description:
- First edition of a collection of over 500 maxims, principally in English or Latin, the last early effort to explore and convey English law through this method, the maxims often examined at length, with a general analysis followed by particular cases
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, exceptionally bright and clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78411
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- maxims
- Author:
- Branch, Thomas
- Title:
- Principia Legis & Aequitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions, and Memorable Sayings in Law and Equity. And the Latin Maxims and Rules Translated, by John Richardson, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. Fifth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed J. & W.T. Clarke, Law Booksellers . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1824.
- Description:
- Final edition of the substantial and successful, alphabetically arranged, collection of maxims, numbering over 2,000, which "contains more law and more useful matter than any one book of the same size which can be put into the hands of the student"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, joints rubbed, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77237
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- maxims, Legal Prints
- Author:
- Heath, Robert
- Title:
- Maxims and Rules of Pleading; in Actions Real, Personal, and Mixt, Popular, and Penal: Describing the Nature of Declarations, Pleas, Replications, Rejoynders, and all other Parts of Pleading . . . from the Manuscript of Sir Robert Heath [etc]. Wing H1340
- Publisher:
- Printed for Abel Roper, at the Mitre near Temple-Bar, London, 1694.
- Description:
- First edition of Heath's treatise, published after his death and based on his law notes and on the Year Books, Littleton, Dyer and Plowden, and patterned on Sir Matthew Hale's edition of Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium; with the imprimatur leaf
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, front joint just cracking but firm, spine varnished, later label, ex-LA County Law Library, light browning; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-79162
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- maxims, pleading
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, Branched into a double Tract: The One Containing a Collection of some principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law [and] The Other The Use of the Common Law [etc.]. S.T.C. 1134; Gibson 193. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of Iohn Moore Esq., London, 1630.
- Description:
- First edition of Bacon's most famous legal work, and the first collection in English of the maxims of English law, part of Bacon's larger scheme to systematize and reform the law, and part of a much more extensive collection of his maxims now lost
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, rubbed, the spine snagged, some browning, one blank defective, else well preserved with exceedingly ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78946
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- maxims, jurisprudence
- Author:
- Francis, Clinton and Sue Sheridan Walker (eds.)
- Title:
- Checklist of Research in British Legal Manuscripts Volume III
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 58 pages
- Book No.:
- W-41605
- Price:
- $ 12.50
- Category:
- equity, maxims, Manuscripts
- 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:
- Clark, George
- Title:
- The Penal Statutes Abridged, and Alphabetically Arranged . . . To Which is Prefixed, A Collection of Maxims and Rules for the proper Exposition of Statutes . . . The Second Edition, with Great Additions . . . By George Wilson, Serjeant at Law. Not in Cowley
- Publisher:
- Printed for Fielding and Walker [and two others], London, 1777.
- Description:
- The rare, expanded edition, arranged alphabetically and prefaced by 58 maxims, specifying an offense's nature and penalties (for first and subsequent offenses) and the number of witnesses and magistrates needed for conviction; five copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, the spine gilt ruled and blind decorated, with a crimson morocco label, gilt, clean and crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79675
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Abridgements, maxims
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