Author: HATCHELL (John)
Title: A Report of the Arguments and Judgment upon the Demurrer, in the case of Henry Edmund Taffe, against the Right Hon. Wm. Downes, Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench, in Ireland, in Trinity, Michaelmas, and Hilary Terms, 1812 & 1813, in the Court of Common Pleas, Ireland.
Description: Dublin: Printed for John Cooke, Law Bookseller, 1815. First Edition, 8vo, [2], 218pp., pp.199-200 omitted in pagination, i.e. p.198 followed by p.201, with the stamp of Dublin Law Society on title, disbound, uncut and partly unopened. Henry Edmund Taffe had accused the Right Hon.William Downes of trespass with force of arms, in that he made an assault on him in Castle Street, in Dublin, and kept and detained him in prison, without any reasonable or probable course, for a long time, to wit, for the space of four hours. The damages were laid at £5,000. Rare, JISC locating the BL copy only.

Keywords: LAW IRELAND DUBLIN PRINTING IRISH LAW ECONOMICS