Legal

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A trial, appeal, accusation, defence, execution, last speech, or confession relating to the law. 

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
14736 The proceedings in the Court of King’s Bench, on the indictments against Charles Bourne, gent. on the prosecution of Sir James Wallace, for a libel and for an assault: Containing The Evidence, the Arguments of the Counsel, and the Speech of Mr. Justice Willes, on pronouncing the Judgment of the Court. To which are added copies of all the affidavits, both for the prosecution and for the defendant. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney. Bourne , Charles
 1783
25474 The proceedings of the late directors of the South-Sea Company, from their proposal for taking in the publick debts, to the choice of new directors; containing a particular account of the debates in the General-Courts of the said company, during that Time, as likewise in those of the Bank of England, and East-India Company; including among others the celebrated Speeches of the following Lords and Gentlemen, viz. Duke of Portland Earl of Ilay Lord Lumley Lord Morpeth Mr. Craggs Sir John Blunt Sir John Eyles Sir John Fellows Sir Matthew Decker Sir Robert Child Sir Gils. Heathcote Sir Harcourt Master Sir Theodore Jansen Sir George Caswall Dr. Cotesworth Mr. Budgell Mr. Ecclestone Mr. Young Mr. Hungerford Mr. Hopkins Mr. Pendock, &c. Together with divers other matters and Occurrences, which either result from or serve to explain those proceedings. To these are added the by-laws of the South-Sea Company. The Second Edition, with Additions South Sea Company ,
Anne Dodd I (London)
Jane Billingsley (London)
1721 The Second Edition, with Additions
14191 The proceedings of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, upon the bill, intituled, An act to release the from the obligation of the oath of secrecy, the members of the court-martial appointed for the tryal of Admiral John Byng, pursuant to the exception contained in the said oath. Together with the examinations of the several members of the said court-martial, taken upon oath at their lordships bar. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the proceedings of the Hon. House of Commons, upon the said bill. Parliament of Great Britain , House of Lords
 Alice James (Dublin)
George Faulkner I [Essex Street] (Dublin)
Peter Wilson [Dame St, 1748–66] (Dublin)
John Exshaw I [Dame Street] (Dublin)
Matthew Williamson [Dame Street] (Dublin)
William Sleater I [Cork Hill] (Dublin)
1757
14738 The proceedings on the King’s special commission of oyer and terminer for the county of Surry, held at St. Margaret’s-Hill, On Monday the 10th of July, 1780, and the following Days; before The Right Hon. Alexander Lord Loughborough, Chief Justice of his Majesty’s Court of Common Pleas; The Hon. Sir Henry Gould, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty’s Court of Common Pleas; The Hon. Sir James Eyre, Knight, one of the Barons of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer; and The Hon. Francis Buller, one of the Justices of his Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench. Taken in short-hand (with Permission of the Court) By Joseph Gurney, Short-Hand-Writer at the Session in the Old Bailey. Part I. Gurney , Joseph
 Joseph Gurney (London)
1780
25208 The Relative duty of creditors and debtors considered. Shewing, the indispensable obligation debtors are under to make the utmost restitution to their creditors; and proposing some arguments and reasons for the gentleness and compassion of creditors towards in solvent debtors. With some objections answered, and cases relating to this subject stated and cleared, in a sermon preached in the Chappel of the Fleet Prison, Jan. 23. 1742-3. Published by request. Unknown ,
1743
22430 The reply of Elizabeth Perkins, to the case of Edmund Perkins, Esq; concerning a bill preferr'd in Parliament for the education of her five children in the Protestant religion. Perkins , Elizabeth
 1701
26025 The reports and entries of Sir Edward Lutwyche, Serjeant at Law, and late one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. The several cases therein are truly stated upon the respective Pleadings and Entries, in English. Also Every Citation in the Report is carefully examin'd by the Law-Books to which they refer, and where they agree, and where they differ from the Point in Question made appear; and those ranged in that Order as in many Places to form an Argument where there was none before; with large Observations. Likewise Many obsolete Words and difficult Sentences are explain'd; which are printed in a different Character. Composed in a plain and easy method, and made very useful for Students and Practisers of the Common Law. By W. Nelson of the Middle-Temple, Esq; Nelson , William
Great Britain , Court of Common Pleas
 Daniel Browne I (London)
William Mears [Temple Bar] (London)
Jonah Browne [Brown] (London)
Francis Clay (London)
John Hooke (London)
1717
26081 The reports and entries of Sir Edward Lutwyche, Serjeant at Law, and late one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. The several cases therein are truly stated upon the respective Pleadings and Entries, in English. Also Every Citation in the Report is carefully examin'd by the Law-Books to which they refer, and where they agree, and where they differ from the Point in Question made appear; and those ranged in that Order as in many Places to form an Argument where there was none before; with large Observations. Likewise Many obsolete Words and difficult Sentences are explain'd; which are printed in a different Character. Composed in a plain and easy method, and made very useful for Students and Practisers of the Common Law. By W. Nelson of the Middle-Temple, Esq; Nelson , William
Great Britain , Court of Common Pleas
 Daniel Browne I (London)
William Mears [Temple Bar] (London)
Jonah Browne [Brown] (London)
Francis Clay (London)
John Hooke (London)
1718
26031 The reports of the resolutions of the court on divers exceptions taken to pleadings, and other matters in law ; arising (for the most part) in the Court of Common Pleas, between the 34th year of King Charles II. and the 2d year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne. And some Observations on several of the precedents, as well as those which were never debated in court, as on many others. With Two tables: One of the names of the cases, and the other of the Matters contain'd in them. Printed in French by Sir Edward Lutwyche, late one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas; and allow'd and approv'd of the Lord Keeper, and by all the Reverend Judges. Now faithfully translated into English: Together with an abstract of the Pleadings to which the said Reports and Observations relate, with references to the Pages in the Original. In two volumes. Great Britain , Court of Common Pleas
Unknown ,
John Walthoe I (London)
Thomas Ward (London)
1718
26011 The scrivener's guide. Vol. II. Being choice and approved forms of precedents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better Method than any yet Printed; and useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. Articles of Agreement, Assignments, Acquittances, Bankrupts, Bargains and Sales, Bills, Bonds, Certificates, Conditions, Copartnerships, Copyhold Precedents, Covenants, Defeazances, Deputations, Grants, Jointures, Indentures, Leases, Letters of Attorney, Licences, Mortgages, Obligations, Partitions, Provisoes, Releases, Revocations, Settlements of Estates, Wills, Warrants, &c. By Nicholas Covert, one of the Attorneys of the Court of Common Pleas. The third edition, corrected and enlarged with many additions, by William Bohun, of the Middle-Temple, Esq; Covert , Nicholas
 William Mears [Temple Bar] (London)
Jonah Browne [Brown] (London)
John Hooke (London)
Thomas Woodward (London)
Lewis Sweeting (London)
1716 The Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged with many Additions
26052 The second charge of Whitelocke Bulstrode, Esq; to the Grand Jury and Other juries of the County of Middlesex, at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held the Ninth of Day of October, 1718. at Westminster-Hall. Printed at the Desire of the Justices of the Peace for the County, and of the Grand Jury. Bulstrode , Whitelocke
 Robert Gosling (London)
1718
26033 The second part of the reports of cases and special arguments, argued and adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, beginning in Easter Term the thirtieth of King Charles the Second, and ending in Easter Term the third of King James the Second. With many marginal notes and references: with two compleat tables, one of the names of cases, the other of the principal contents. By Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knight. Shower , Bartholomew
Great Britain , Court of King's Bench
 Daniel Browne I (London)
John Walthoe I (London)
William Mears [Temple Bar] (London)
Francis Clay (London)
1720
14741 The sentence of the court-martial, held at the Horse-Guards, for the trial of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. James Murray, late governor of Minorca, on the twenty-nine articles exhibited against him by Sir William Draper. With His Majesty’s order thereon. To which are added, The Whole of the Evidence on the Two Articles of which the General was found Guilty; And likewise upon the Four Articles of Complaint of Personal Wrong and Grievance. Taken in short-hand b Joseph Gurney. With an appendix, containing Gen. Murray’s Defence and Answer to every Article of the Charge,-All the Correspondence between Gen. Murray and Sir William Draper,-The several Councils of War,-And the subsequent Proceedings of the Court-Martial relative to the private Dispute between Gen. Murray and Sir William Draper; with all the Correspondence upon that Subject. Murray , James
 1783
25935 The state of the case, between the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's houshold, and Sir Richard Steele as represented by that Knight. Restated, in vindication of King George, and the most noble the Duke of Newcastle. With a true copy of King Charles's patent, to Sir William D'Avenant, for erecting a play-house, &c. Unknown ,
1720
26074 The statute-Law common-plac'd: or, a second general table to the statutes. Containing the purport and effect of all the acts of Parliament in force from Magna Charta down to this time, in a Method perfectly New and Regular; with the numerous Proviso's and additional Clauses inserted under their proper Titles. The Whole Very useful to Counsellors, Attorneys, Sollicitors, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Coroners, Clergymen, Merchants, and all Trading Persons. By G. Jacob, Gent. Jacob , Giles
 Bernard Lintott (London)
1719
21808 The System of the Laws of the United States, in relation to direct taxes and internal duties, enacted in the year 1813, containing those laws at large with some explanations; and a copious index. Prepared by Alexander Sidney Coxe, of the Philadelphia Bar. Coxe , Alexander Sidney
 1813
6254 The trial at large, Behaviour, and Dying Declaration, of Mary Edmondson, Who was Try'd and Convicted at the Assizes held at Kingston upon Thames, in Surry, on Saturday, the Thirty-First Day of March, 1759. For the Murder of Mrs. Susanna Walker, Widow, her Aunt, At Rotherhith, on the 23d Day of February last. With an Authentic and Genuine Narrative Of that unfortunate young Woman, from her Commitment to the New Goal in Southwark, to her Execution at Kennington-Common, on Monday, the Second Day of April, 1759. And Copies of some Papers that she delivered at the Stockhouse Prison at Kingston just before she set out for the Place of Execution. Edmondson , Mary
 John James Leage (London)
1759
14749 The trial of David Tyrie, for high treason, at the assize at Winchester, held by adjournment on Saturday, August the 10th, 1782, Before The Honourable John Heath, Esquire, One of the Justices of His Majesty’s Court of Common-Pleas. Taken in Short-Hand By Joseph Gurney. Tyrie , David
 Joseph Gurney (London)
1782
14750 The trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon, for high treason, at the bar of the Court of King’s Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. The fifth edition. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney. Gordon , George
 1781 The fifth edition
13787 The trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon. For High Treason, at the bar of the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. The third edition. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney Gurney , Joseph
 1781 The third edition.
14751 The trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon. For high treason, at the bar of the Court of King’s Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. The second part. Fourth edition. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney. Gordon , George
 1781 Fourth edition
14752 The trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon. For high treason, at the bar of the Court of King’s Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. The second part. Second edition. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney. Gordon , George
 1781 Second edition
14753 The trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon. For high treason, at the bar of the Court of King’s Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. The second part. Taken in Short-Hand, by Joseph Gurney. Gordon , George
 1781
14754 The trial of James O’Coigly, otherwise called James Quigley, otherwise called James John Fivey, Arthur O’Connor, Esq. John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, for High Treason, under a special commission, at Maidstone, in Kent, On Monday the Twenty-First, and Tuesday the Twenty-Second Days of May, 1798. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney. 1798
4876 The trial of Jane Leigh Perrot, wife of James Leigh Perrot, Esq; charged with stealing a card of lace, in the shop of Elizabeth Gregory, haberdasher and milliner, at Bath, before Sir Soulden Lawrence, Knight, one of the justices of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench. At Taunton assizes, on Saturday the 29th day of March, 1800. Taken in court by John Pinchard, attorney, of Taunton. Perrot , Jane Leigh
 Thomas Norris (Taunton)
1800

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