Ars notariatus: or, the art and office of a notary-public, as the same is practised in Scotland. In two parts. I. Giving an Account of the Rise and Institution of the Office, and ancient and present State thereof. II. Containing Notorial Instruments of all kinds. To which is added, by way of conclusion, an advice to notaries, touching the right discharging of their office.

Edinburgh: printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. For Alex. Donaldson, [1762] 2nd edition. 17cm. xv[i], 344pp, head-piece. Contemporary full sprinkled calf gilt, raised bands. Calf rubbed and worn; lacks spine label. First edition 1740; later editions of 1777 and 1792. All editions scarce. ESTC T142290: Eo, L, O; NNL-L, MH-L, CaDGH

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Book number: 42813

Catalogue: Law

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[WEST, Richard,]

An inquiry into the origin and manner of creating peers.

London: printed for J. Roberts, 1719. 8vo in fours. [ii], 74pp, head and tail-piece, decorated capital. Bound with: [SAINT AMAN, George.] Animadversions on the enquiry into the manner of creating peers: with some hints about pyrating in learning; in a letter to Richard W_st, Esq. London: printed for J. Peele, 1724. 8vo in fours. [ii], 52pp, head and tail-pieces, decorated capital. Modern paper boards, new endpapers. First work lacks half-title; title-page to first work lacks upper fore-edge margin corner - not affecting text. The first work is sometimes attributed to Sir Richard Steele. The second title uncommon in commerce. Sweet & Maxwell 1.255 and 1.207 Goldmiths 6345

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Book number: 42712

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law history

A letter to the Common Council of the City of London. With remarks on Lord Chief Justice Pratt's letter to the City of Exeter.

London: printed for W Nicoll, 1764. 8vo. [ii], 38pp. Disbound from a disparate collection. Light spotting throughout.

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Book number: 38702

Catalogue: Law

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The trial of Arthur Thistlewood, on a charge of high treason. Tried at the Old Bailey, April 17th, 1820, before the Lord Chief Justice Abbott.

London: printed and published by Messrs. Clement and Benbow, No.269, Strand, 1820. 8vo. 96pp. Disbound. Lacks frontis; very light age-browning to text. Plot to assassinate the Cabinet - Thistlewood was hanged. JISC: The London Library (calling for frontis) only for this edition

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Book number: 44929

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law Politics Cato Street conspiracy, 1820.

[ROSCOE, Henry and Thomas (Compilers).]

Westminster Hall: or professional relics and anecdotes of the bar, bench, and woolsack (3 Vols.)

London: John Knight & Henry Lacey, 1825. Small 8vo. Various paginations, each volume with engraved pictorial title-page and folding frontis; 12 plates. Contemporary russet cloth, printed paper spine labels, uncut. Neat repairs to spine tips; labels browned and chipped; cloth sun-faded and stained. * The work was reprinted in 1994.

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Book number: 35619

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: Law Local History

ABBOTT, Charles.

A treatise of the law relative to merchant ships and seamen: in four parts; I. Of the owners of merchant ships; II. Of the persons employed in the navigation thereof; III. Of the carriage of goods therein; IV. Of the wages of merchant seamen.

London: printed for W Reed and J Butterworth, 1808 3rd edition, with additions. 8vo. xxxv[i], 586pp. Contemporary half-calf gilt, marbled sides. Extremes lightly rubbed; lacks spine label; occasional very light spotting. * From the Gladstone library at Fasque with book-plate to fpdep.

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Book number: 38817

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law Marine

ARCHBOLD, John Frederick.

Jervis's Acts, ... relating to the duties of Justices of the Peace ...

London: Shaw & Sons, 1851 3rd edition. Tall 12mo. xvi, 260pp, [28]pp publisher's lists at rear, text tables. Original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes rubbed with wear to spine tips; ex-reference library with only evidence Dewey number to spine tail and book-plate to fpdep.

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Book number: 32871

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: Law

ATKINSON, Charles Milner; John Edwin MITCHELL.

An account of the life and principles of Sir Samuel Romilly, K.C., M.P., H.M. Solicitor-General, 1806-1807.

Derby: Hobson and Son, 1920. 8vo. [iv], 232pp, [3]pp index of persons, portrait frontis, plates. Publisher's full limp red diced calf gilt, patterned eps, sprinkled leaf-edges. * Signed ink presentation inscription by J. E. Mitchell to front blank.

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Book number: 37534

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: Law biography Derby Printing

BAHRAMY, Ahmed-Ali.

La Legislation Internationale du Travail et son Influence sur le Droit Iranien. 'Travaux de Droit, d'Economie et de Sociologie No. 9.'

Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1963. 8vo. xi[i], 299pp, text table. Original printed card wraps. Wraps unevenly sun-faded. Ex-university reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30671

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law

BAKER, Thomas.

The laws relating to the salmon fisheries in Great Britain, including statutes passed during the last session of parliament for England and Scotland, and the whole of the scotch byelaws.

London: Horace Cox, 1866. 12mo. viii, 206pppp, text tables. Original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, yellow eps with adverts to paste-downs, uncut. Relevant newspaper clippings tipped onto eps and page 180 (with 2 small ink crosses and an underlining to part of one line of text).

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Book number: 37970

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: Law Angling

BELL, Robert.

Outlines of the course of lectures on conveyancing established by the Society of Clerks to the Signet: with a concentrated view of the clauses of deeds.

Edinburgh: Printed by Alex. Chapman & Co, 1800 8vo. [iv], 80, 63[1]pp, folding table at rear, tail-piece. Quarter-style old paper boards, printed paper spine label, uncut. Board edges rubbed. * Author's presentation inscription to ffep verso. ** ESTC: Eu, O; MH-L

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Book number: 38163

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law scotland

BENNET, William Heath.

Select biographical sketches from the note-books of a law reporter.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. 8vo. xiv, 218pp, xlvii[i]pp appendix and subs list, 6 real photographs of portraits laid down to printed leaves. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; cloth lightly browned and stained.

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Book number: 41868

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law Biography

FORBES, William.

A methodical treatise, concerning bills of exchange. Wherein is an account of the rise and progress of exchange; the nature and kinds of it explained; the prevailing custom of merchants, illustrated and confirm'd from civil law, the authority of lawyers and writers, ancient and modern, forein statutes, and sentences of courts, acts of Parliament, and decisions of the Lords of Session; and all curious and useful cases, questions and controversies touching bills fairly stated and discuss'd, according to the analogy of the Scots Law. By William Forbes advocat.

Edinburgh: printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson ... : and are to be sold at John Vallange's shop ... , 1703. 16cm. [xii], 178[2]pp. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, raised bands. Binding rubbed and worn - split to bottom compartment of spine; title margins browned; closed tear to tile-page lower margin; small piece cut from lower margin of A2 with loss of 't' from 'crept'. Forbes was the first Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow University. The first work on the subject to be published in Scotland; indeed it was also the author's first published work. A second (and extended) edition was published in 1718. ESTC: 8/1/5. Goldsmiths 3988, Hanson 318.

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Book number: 42895

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law

IMPEY, John.

The Modern Pleader, containing the several forms of declarations in all actions, with notes thereon: also, a collection of choice and useful precedents, for declarations in the superior courts, in the action of account, and common assumpsit, with those on promissory notes: to which are added, a variety of useful notes and observations, the several cases determined in those actions, with the evidence necessary to support each declaration ...

London: printed for the Author, and sold by Joseph Butterworth, 1794. 8vo. viii, [iv], 444pp, [48]pp index. Recent quarter-style paper boards, printed paper spine label. Very light spotting to eps. Sole edition apart from a Dublin imprint the following year. Sweet and Maxwell 1:271.

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Book number: 41756

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law

MOORE, Evelyn Garth.

An Introduction to English Canon Law. 'Clarendon Law Series.'

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. xii[iv], 176pp. Original navy cloth gilt. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence.

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Book number: 30819

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law theology