Author: Burns, Richard
Title: Burn's Abridgment, or the American Justice; Containing the Whole Practice, Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace; with Correct Forms of Precedents Relating Thereto, and Adapted to the Present Situation of the United States
Description: Dover, NH, Printed for and Sold by Eliphalet Ladd, 1792. Leather. Full calf leather (at one point at least. Now missing both covers). Viii, 484, (1) pp. A legal treatise by British legal scholar Richard Burns, adapted to laws in the United States, especially pertaining to justices of the peace. This includes sections on homocide, rape, riots, prison escapes, etc. POOR condition. MISSING both covers. Heavy scuffing, flaking and wear to the leather along the spine. Rear blank endpaper almost detached from the text block. All front endpaper up to the title page MISSING. Heavy browning to the text block, with minor scattered soiling, foxing and spotting. Poor .

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