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2016. [American Law Reports] ALR Federal Quick Index. Covering ALR Fed, Vols. 1-200, ALR Fed 2d Vols. 1-94, ALR Fed 3d Vols. 1-16. Thomson Reuters. December 2016 Edition. 1 Volume. 1575 pages. Softbound. Ex-library with stamps on pages edges, bar code label on rear cover, bumped at bottom with slight curling, else very good. Publishers Price USD 314. Special $25.

1999. Legal Classics Library. Legal Classics Library. Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome (146-211). Westermann, William Linn (1873-1954). Schiller, A. Arthur (1902-1977). APOKRIMATA. Decisions of Septimius Severus on Legal Matters. Text, Translation, and Historical Analysis. Legal Commentary by A. Arthur Schiller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. x, one folding plate, 110 pp. Reprint The Legal Classics Library, 1999. Full blue calf, with gilt stamped spine and covers, all edges gilt. Fine. $60. * English with occasional Greek. Text, translation and historical analysis by Westermann; legal commentary by Schiller. Among the legal problems discussed are the sale of mortgaged property on foreclosure, the guardianship of orphans, the renunciation of an inheritance by a minor, the legal capacity of women, and the order of proceedings when a will was contested as a forgery.

1954. Columbia University Press, 1954. First edition. Columbia University Press, 1954. First edition. Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome (146-211). Westermann, William Linn (1873-1954). Schiller, A. Arthur (1902-1977). APOKRIMATA. Decisions of Septimius Severus on Legal Matters. Text, Translation, and Historical Analysis. Legal Commentary by A. Arthur Schiller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Quarto. (11" x 7-3/4"). x, 110 pp. General Index, Greek Index. Folding plate facsimile of papyrus. Text in English with occasional Greek. Black cloth hardcover with worn gilt stamped blue spine lettering piece. Corners have a bit of wear, internally clean and bright. $125. * First edition. Among the legal problems discussed are the sale of mortgaged property on foreclosure, the guardianship of orphans, the renunciation of an inheritance by a minor, the legal capacity of women, and the order of proceedings when a will was contested as a forgery. Provides a "rich a mine of new source material… Read More

1999. Legal Classics Library. Legal Classics Library. Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome (146-211). Westermann, William Linn (1873-1954). Schiller, A. Arthur (1902-1977). APOKRIMATA. Decisions of Septimius Severus on Legal Matters. Text, Translation, and Historical Analysis. Legal Commentary by A. Arthur Schiller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. x, one folding plate, 110 pp. Reprint The Legal Classics Library, 1999. Full blue calf, with gilt stamped spine and covers, all edges gilt. Bookplate on front free endpaper, else fine [with] tipped in pamphlet, Notes From the Editor, 14 pp. $60. * English with occasional Greek. Text, translation and historical analysis by Westermann; legal commentary by Schiller. Among the legal problems discussed are the sale of mortgaged property on foreclosure, the guardianship of orphans, the renunciation of an inheritance by a minor, the legal capacity of women, and the order of proceedings when a will was contested as a forgery.

1961. two linear feet of shelf space. two linear feet of shelf space. Abbott's Digest 2d. (1962-1975). St. Paul: West Publishing. Volumes 18A to 24A, in 13 books. Two (2) linear feet shelf space. Publisher's red cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spines. Ex-private law firm library without any stamps or marks. Very good. Special $100.

1928. Jessup, Henry Wynans. Abimelech Pott: the Don Quixote of the Bar, a Novel. New York: Walter Neale, 1928. 187 pp. Hardcover. Light shelfwear and soiling. Ink location label to foot of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $45.

2013. ISBN-13: 9781584777397; ISBN-10: 1584777397. Finkelman, Paul, Editor. Abolitionists in Northern Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. With a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. [9], 524 pp. Reprinted 2007, 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777397; ISBN-10: 1584777397. Hardcover. New. $85. * 13 Pamphlets reprinted in fascimile, in 1 volume, with a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman: 1. Chief Justice Gray, ed. The case of Nathaniel Jennison for Attempting to Hold a Negro as a Slave in Massachusetts in 1781. From the Minutes of Chief Justice Cushing With References to Contemporaneous Records Communicated to the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, 1874. 10 pp. 2. Robert Smith, ed. Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes. Camden, 1843. 34 pp. 3. Isaac Neale, ed. Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes. Burlington, 1794. 32 pp. 4.… Read More

1988. Keown, John. Abortion, Doctors and the Law. Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Abortion in England from 1803 to 1982. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x, 212 pp. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, with gilt stamped spine, very good, in a very good dust jacket. $45. * Ranging from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1980s, this book focuses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England. Little academic attention has hitherto been given to the development and scope of abortion law in England, the formative influence of the medical profession, and the impact of the law on medical practice. Consequently, Dr Keown considers the performance of abortion by doctors, and the influence the medical profession had on the restriction of the law in the nineteenth century and on its relaxation in the twentieth. The book does not deal directly with the legal status of the unborn child, the rights and duties of its parents and of the doctors… Read More

1995. Parrish, Jenni; Finkelman, Paul. Abortion Law in the United States. New York: Garland Pub., 1995. 3 Volumes. Original cloth, with stamped spines. New, $16.

2008. ISBN-13: 9781584778301; ISBN-10: 158477830X. A Suit Against Abraham Lincoln Townsend, William H. Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. vii, [1] p., 2 l., 3-40, [1] p. front., facsims. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778301. ISBN-10: 158477830X. Cloth. New. $65. * Reprint of the sole edition. The facsimiles here given are taken from the records of the Fayette Circuit Court and from letters of Abraham Lincoln. A petition was filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, Lexington, Ky., May, 1853, by Edward Oldham and Thomas Hemingway, surviving partners of Oldham, Todd & Company, claiming that Abraham Lincoln collected certain money, as their attorney, which was not paid over. Four depositions, constituting the proof for Lincoln, were filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, November 23, 1853, and so completely was the charge refuted that the plaintiffs on January 16, 1854, filed a motion to dismiss the… Read More

1998. Belz, Herman. Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. xi, 265 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $25.

1999. ISBN-13: 9781886363946; ISBN-10: 1886363943. Richards, John T. Abraham Lincoln The Lawyer-Statesman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Frontis. Illustrated. xii, 260 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363946. ISBN-10: 1886363943. Cloth hardcover. New. $65. * An examination that examines Lincoln's role as a lawyer and his approach to the law and judiciary. In so doing the work corrects the myths regarding Lincoln's stand on the South, his position on the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, and his overall skill as a lawyer and orator. Well illustrated, with one foldout. Also includes a list of cases where Lincoln appeared as counsel in the Illinois Supreme Court.

1999. Richards, John T. Abraham Lincoln The Lawyer-Statesman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Frontis. Illustrated. xii, 260 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Cloth. Upper corners of binding bumped, otherwise fine. $10. * This book examines Lincoln's role as a lawyer and his approach to the law and judiciary. In so doing the work corrects the myths regarding Lincoln's stand on the South, his position on the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, and his overall skill as a lawyer and orator. Well illustrated, with one foldout. Also includes a list of cases where Lincoln appeared as counsel in the Illinois Supreme Court.

1754. Ireland in the Mid-Eighteenth Century [Ireland]. Bullingbrooke, Edward, Compiler. Belcher, Jonathan, Compiler. An Abridgement of the Statutes of Ireland, From the First Session of Parliament in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Second, To the End of the Twenty Fifth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Second; And of All the English and British Statutes which Extend to and Bind Ireland; With Tables of the Statutes in their Chronological Order, Directing to the Heads Under which They are Abridged; The Statutes Taken from Any English Statutes, The English Statutes from Which any Irish Statutes are Taken, Such Statutes as are to be Given in Charge at the Assises, Such Statutes as Are to be Given in Charge at the Quarter-Sessions, Such Statutes as Are Injoined to be Read in Churches; Together with an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters Referring to the Titles and Paragraphs in the Abridgement, And to the Respective Statutes; And also the New Rules. Dublin:… Read More

1607. London, 1607. Second edition. London, 1607. Second edition. An Early Guide to Plowden's Reports Plowden, Edmund [1518-1585]. A[she], T[homas] [fl. 1599-1618]. Abridgement des Touts les Cases Reportes Alarge per Mounsieur Plowden, Ouesque les Exceptions al Pleadings, & Leur Responses, Les Resolutions des Matters in Ley, & Touts Auters Principal Matters Surdants sur les Arguments de Mesmes. Composee & Digest per T.A. London: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Company of Stationers, 1607. 91, [1] ff. Table. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Recent flexible vellum, calf lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Title printed within typographical border. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, faint dampstaining to lower margins of rear third of text block, light browning and some edgewear to preliminaries. Three (indecipherable) eighteenth-century signatures in miniscule hands to title page, brief early annotations and marks to margins of a few leaves. A nice copy. $650. * Second edition.… Read More

1795. A Tabular Guide to Crime and Punishment from Eighteenth-Century England Addington, Sir William [d.1811]. An Abridgment of Penal Statutes, Which Exhibits at One View The Offences, And the Punishment or Penalties, In Consequence of Those Offences, The Mode of Recovering, And Application of the Penalties, The Number of Witnesses, And the Jurisdiction Necessary to the Several Convictions, And the Chapters and Sections of the Enacting Statutes, Including the Fifth Session of the Seventeenth Parliament, 1795. With Large Additions and Annotations: To Which are Subjoined, Extracted from Reporters of the Best Authority, And Inserted Under Their Proper Heads, A Great Variety of Adjudged Cases. And to the Whole is Annexed, A Table of Contents. London: Printed for the Author, By Cooper and Graham, 1795. 861, [91] pp. [Bound with] An Appendix to Addington's Abridgment of Penal Statutes, In Which are Noticed Such as Have Been Repealed, And Such as Have Been Enacted Since the Publication of the Said Work in… Read More

1773. Boston: Printed for Joseph Greenleaf, 1773.. Boston: Printed for Joseph Greenleaf, 1773. The Only American Abridgment Before 1776 Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. Greenleaf, Joseph [1720-1810], Editor. An Abridgment of Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer. To Which is Added, An Appendix, Containing Some General Rules and Directions Necessary to be Known and Observed by All Justices of the Peace. Boston: Printed for, and sold by, Joseph Greenleaf, 1773. [viii], 386, [2] pp. Includes two-page publisher advertisement. Quarto (8-1/2" x 7"). Period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, existing endpapers retained, hinges mended. Light fading to sections of spine, early armorial bookplate (of John C. Williams) to front pastedown. Moderate toning, light foxing in a few places, light offsetting to endleaves, a few chips and tears to front endleaves, recent repair to lower inside corner of title page with no loss to text. A handsome copy. $950. * Only… Read More

1714. London, 1714. 2nd. ed.. London, 1714. 2nd. ed. A Popular Abridgment of Coke on Littleton Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. Hawkins, William [1673-1746], Editor. An Abridgment of the First Part of My Ld. Coke's Institutes; With Some Additions Explaining Many of the Difficult Cases, And Shewing in What Points the Law has Been Altered by Late Resolutions and Acts of Parliament. To Which is Added, A Large Index in the Nature of an Analysis, Of the Most General Heads. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1714. [ii], vi, 495, [105] pp. Title page preceded by one-page publisher advertisement. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and recent lettering piece to spine, repair to head of spine. A few minor nicks and scuffs, moderate rubbing to extremities, small chip to head of spine, corners bumped and somewhat worn, rear hinge cracked. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, faint dampstaining to a few leaves, owner signature to… Read More

1836. Concord, NH?, 1836.. Concord, NH?, 1836. "Oh! Lust, Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" [Broadside]. [Murder]. Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke, N.H.--June 23, 1833. [Concord, NH.?]: S.n., 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" broadside. Two-columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border, text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains, faint horizontal and vertical fold line, chipping to edges, section lacking from bottom margin, just touching bottom right corner of border, a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text, later repairs to verso. $2,500. * Abraham Prescott was found guilty of the murder of Sally Cochran in two separate trials held in Concord in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a well-crafted insanity defense, he was sentenced to be hanged on December 23, 1835, in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. The execution was postponed to January 6,… Read More

1600. The Leading Elizabethan-Era Authority on Criminal Law Pulton, Ferdinand(o) [1536-1618], Compiler. An Abstract of All the Penall Statutes Which be Generall, In Force and Use: Wherein is Conteined the Effect of All Those Statutes, Which Doe Threaten to the Offenders Thereof, The Losse of Life, Member, Lands, Goods, Or Other Punishment or Forfaiture Whatsoever. Whereunto is also Added, In Theire Apte Titles, The Effect of All Other Generall Statutes, Wherin There is Any Thing Materiall and Necessarie for Eache Subiect to Know. Moreover the Authoritie and Duetie of All Iustices, Shirifes, Coroners, Eschetors, Maiors, Baylifes, Customers, Comptrollers of Custome, Stewardes of Leetes and Liberties, Aulnegers, And Purveyours, And What Things by the Letter of Severall Statutes in Force, They May, Ought, Or are Compellable to Doe. London: Printed by Thomas Wight, 1600. [viii], 404 ff. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Recent calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Some fading to… Read More