Legal

Name 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
5576 Genuine particulars of the life of the celebrated Richard Parker, alias Admiral Parker; found guilty, on tryal, before a court martial held at Greenhith for mutiny and disbobedience of orders. By a lady many years a resident in Moscow,-where she knew Parker intimately; and in whose fate, from an acquired freiendship, and some family alliance, she feels herself particularly interested. Unknown ,
s.n. [sine nomine]
1707
2194 George Montgomerie-Moir, of Leckie, Esq; - - - - appellant. Anne Montgomerie, and Mess. Alexander and Archibald Stevenson, procurators fiscal of the Commissariot of Edinburgh, for their interest, - - - - - - - - - - respondents. The respondents case. Moir , Anne Montgomery
 1751
15480 George the Third by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, To all people, to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas divers injurious proceedings have lately been had in France in derogation of the honour of our crown, and of the just rights of our subjects. And whereas several unjust seizures have been there made of the ships and goods of our subjects, contrary to the law of nations, and to the faith of treaties. And whereas the said acts of unprovoked hostility have been followed by an open declaration of war against us, and our ally, the republic of the United Provinces. We therefore ... order that general reprisals be granted against the ships, goods, and subjects of France ... , George III
 1793
23647 Groans from the dungeon; or the sorrowful lamentation of Agnes Crockat, now under sentence of death in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, for murdering her own child. Crockat , Agnes
 1750
5705 High treason - committed by Margaret Nicholson. Guilty of the horrid crime of endeavouring to murder his sacred Majesty King George III. on the 2d of August 1786, ... This knife, or poinard, will be kept for a remembrancer of this horrid act. Nicholson , Margaret
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1786
24709 Information for Mrs. Anderson Her Majesties printer, against James Watson printer. Unknown ,
1711
22294 Information for Susanna countess of Strathmore, and Mr. James Lyon, brother-german to the deceast Charles earl of Strathmore, against James Carnegie of Finhaven, pannel. Lyon , Susanna
 1728
23573 Information for the Lady Gannoch, and her sister, heirs portioners to the deceast David MʻCubine younger of Knockdolion. Against Margaret Fergusson. Cathcart , Margaret
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1715
22019 Information for the magistrates of Perth, pursuers; against my Lady Gray, and her husband Lord Gray, defenders. Gray , Margaret Blair
 1747
22907 Innocentia patefacta; & malitia detecta: being the case of Mr Charles Dean, practicer at law. Who was lately (but innocently) executed at Tyburn. Harding , Elizabeth
 1711
22787 Isabella Bond, widow, relict and administratrix of John Bond, Esq; deceased, Paschasius Minne, and Martha his wife, and six children, by Mr. Minne, their father and guardian, appellnts. Charity and Julyan Hele, infants, by Sir Thomas Putt, Bart. and Dame Julyan his wife, their mother and guardians, respondnts. The appellants case. 1717
23287 Jane Vernon, widow, executrix and devisee of Thomas Vernon, Esq; deceas'd, - - - - petitioner. Captain John Vernon, - - - - - - - - respondent. The respondent's case. Vernon , Jane
 1740
21518 Law For Authorising the Governor to Incorporate a Company for making an artificial road in Wayne and Luzerne counties. And also An Ordinance by the President, Managers, and Company, of the Coshecton and Great Bend Turnpike Road. 1805
7440 Law-books, printed by Sarah Cotter, in Skinner-Row. 1755
21210 Laws of the College of New-Jersey, reviewed, amended and finally adopted, by the board of trustees, in September 1802. To which are prefixed, The Charter of Incorporation, and the Act of State confirming and altering the Charter, with a List of the present Trustees and Faculty of the College. 1802
21575 Laws of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, as revised and enacted at the annual meeting, held on the 14th January, 1812. To which is prefixed, a list of the members of the society. Incorporated February 14, 1809. Peters , Richard
 1812
26023 Legal provisions for the poor. 1. of the several sorts of poor. 2, of rates and taxes for the relief of the poor. 3. Of binding poor children apprentices. 4. Where the poor shall be reliev'd by their relations. 5. Of work-houses, and houses of correction. 6. Of settlements, removals, and orders of the justices, both in and out of sessions. 7. Of the relief of bastard-children, and punishment of their reputed parents. 8. Of rogues, vagrants, and passing them to their respective habitations. 9. Of providing houses for poor people. 10. Of the general privy search. 11. Precedents of orders, warrants, &c. Wherein the statutes and resolutions of the judges on these subjects, are consider'd and explain'd. By S. C. of the Inner-Temple, Esq; The Fourth Edition, in which are added all the late Statutes and Resolutions relating to the poor, down to the present Year, 1718. Carter , Samuel
 John Walthoe I (London)
John Walthoe II (Cornhill)
1718 The Fourth Edition, in which are added all the late Statutes and Resolutions relating to the poor, down to the present Year, 1718.
26050 Les termes de la ley: or, certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained. Corrected and enlarged with the location of many other Words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the statute law of Great Britain, never Printed in any other Impression. Rastell , John
 1721 Corrected and enlarged with the location of many other Words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the statute law of Great Britain, never Printed in any other Impression.
7528 Letter to the Lords of the Admiralty, ... Osborn , Sarah
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1757
26018 Lex constitutionis: or, the gentleman's law being, a compleat treatise of all the laws and statutes relating to the King, and the Prerogative of the Crown; the Nobility, and House of Lords; House of Commons; Officers of State; the Exchequer and Treasury; Commissioners and Officers of the Customs; of the Excise; of the Post-Office; Stamp-Office; Forfeited Estates; Publick Accounts; the Navy-Office; War-Office; Lieutenancy of Counties; Justices of Peace, &c. Wherein near one hundred authors of the best Reputation, both ancient and modern, on the Subject, have been consulted, and are referr'd to. And also, an introduction to the common law of England, with Respect to Tenures of Lands, Descents, Marriage-Contracts, Coverture, &c. Of Property, Creation and Forfeiture of Estates; Trials of Offenders, Courts at Westminster, &c. To which are added, under their proper Heads, The Manner of Passing Bills in both Houses of Parliament, the Judicature of the Lords; Variety of adjudg'd Cases; and some curious History of Antiquity. By G. Jacob, Gent. Jacob , Giles
 Bernard Lintott (London)
1719
26037 Lex mercatoria: or, the merchant's companion. Containing all the laws and statutes relating to merchandize. Wherein our trade with foreign nations is illustrated; Our Trade in general amongst our selves explained, with what belongs to particular Companies, and incorporated Bodies; the several Charters by which they are establish'd, and all Maritime Affairs, in the Way of Traffick, are concisely treated of, under the Heads of Merchants and Owners of Ships, Masters, Mariners, Pilots, Freight, and Charter-parties of Affreightment, Insurance, Bottomry, Customs, Ports of Loading and Unloading, Wrecks, Factors, Planters and Plantations, Letters of Marque and Reprisal, Privateers, Piracy, Treaties of Commerce, Exchange, &c. With an introduction, setting forth the Laws, of Nature and of Nations, Dominion of the Seas, &c. Some curious and useful History, and Variety of Special Cases and Determinations interspers'd thro' the Whole. To which is added, in proper places, the best adapted presidents of instruments and writings us'd in all cases relating to trade. Jacob , Giles
 Edmund Curll [Fleet Street] (London)
William Taylor (London)
1718
25953 Manwood's treatise of the forest laws: Shewing not only the laws now in force, but the original of forests, what they are, and how they differ from chases, parks, and warrens; which all such things as are incident to either: together with the proper terms of art, collected out of the common and statute laws of this realm; as also from the assises and iters of Pickering and Lancaster, and several other ancient and learned authors. Treating also of the office of agistors, beadles, foresters, keepers, rangers, verderors and wood wards, and of the courts of attachment, &c. with all the variety of cases relating to forests, chases, parks, and warrens; and all the laws concerning the game made, adjudged or repealed, since the year 1665. The whole digested under proper titles in an alphabetical order. The fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. By William Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq; Manwood , John
 Bernard Lintott (London)
Robert Gosling (London)
John Pemberton (London)
Thomas Ward (London)
1717 The fourth edition, corrected and enlarged.
23720 Masters James Leslie, Robert Clerk, Archibald Murray, and James Smollet, Commissaries of Edinburgh, ... Houston , Eleanora
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1748
25163 Matter of fact; or, the Arraignment and Tryal of the Di-----------rs of the S---- S--- Company, With The Pleadings of the Counsel on both sides. Counsel against the Prisoners. Coun. for the Prisoners. Counsellor Crambo, Counsellor Clamour, Counsellor Query, Counsellor Trifle, Mr Serjeant Rumour, Philopatris. Judges of the Bench. Truth, Justice, Reason, Being the substance of all that has been Written, Pro and Con, in this mighty Controversy about the South-Sea Stock. Dedicated to the losers. Unknown , [Man]
 John Applebee (London)
William Boreham (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1720
26020 Modern cases, argued and adjudged in the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, in the second and third years of Queen Anne, in the time when Sir John Holt late Chief Justice there. With two tables: the first, of the names of the cases: And the Other, of the special Matter therein contained. By a careful hand. The Second Edition. Review'd and Corrected, and Many thousand New and Proper References added. By W. B. Esq; Great Britain , Court of King's Bench
B. , W.
Salkeld , William
 Daniel Browne I (London)
John Walthoe I (London)
Bernard Lintott (London)
William Mears [Temple Bar] (London)
Thomas Woodward (London)
Francis Clay (London)
John Peele (London)
1719 The Second Edition.

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