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 SOULE & BUGBEE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 5 RARE OLD BOOKS. Among other books not often advertised, we have those catalogued below. Most of them are in good condition inside ; but their bindings, in many instances, are ancient and somewhat battered. The prices are net. Consultationes Jacobi Cujacii I. C. Prsclarissimi. Liber Singularis. Colonias Agrippince ; Gerardi Nigri de Fendis, and Opera Petri Peckii DE Verborum Sigxificatione. 24mo. 1578. The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England stated. By William Molyneux. To which is added The Case of Tenures upon the Commission of Defective Titles. Dublin, 1725. 24mo. $3.00. Cases and Questions Resolved in the Civil Law. By R. ZoucH. Oxford, 1652. 24mo. 55-0O. A Profitable Booke of Master John Perkins, Felow of the Inner Temple, Treating of the Lawes of Englad. London, 1 58 1. 24010. $4.00. An Exact Abridgement of that Excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student. London, 1630. Parchment, l6mo. $2.00. Jura Coronas. His Majesties Royal Rights and Prerogatives asserted against Papal Usurpations, etc. London, 16S0. i6mo. $2.00. L'Abridgment des Cases Concernants les Titles plus Materiall pur les Estudients and Practiciones des Leyes du Royalme. Londini, 1599. Printed by Wight & Norton. i6mo. $3.00. D. Justiniani, Sacratissimi Principis, Institutiones. Parisiis, 1805. (Printed in rubrics.) i6mo. §2.00. Galliek Reports ; or. An Historical Collection of Criminal Cases adjudged in the Supreme Courts of Judicature in France. In which is comprised an Account of Arnold du Tilh, an Impostor, who deceived a Man's Wife and Relations, and puzzled for a Long Time the Parliament of France ; the History of a Young Lady whose Eloquence saved the Life of her Lover ; and many other Equally Curious and Entertaining Cases. London, 1737. i6mo. $6.00. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, branched into a double tract : the one containing a Collection of Some Frincipall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, the other the Use of the Common Law for Preservation of our Persons, etc. By Sir Francis Bacon. London, 1636. Small quarto. $2.50. Year Book: Henry IV. and V. (original edition). In hoc volumine conti- nentur omnes anni Regis Henrici quarti ab anno primo usc|ue ad annum deci- mum quintum, non modo impressorum, sed etiam manu scriptorum exemplarium collatione Emedati et iam noniter impressi opera et impensis. Richardi Tot- TELLI. With MS. notes and index. London, 1570. $3.00. A Delineation of Universal Law, being an Abstract of an Essay towards deducing the Elements of Universal Law from the First Principles of Knowledge and the Nature of Things in a Methodical and Connected Series. By Fettiplace Bellers. London, 1754. Pamphlet, quarto. $2.50. A Discourse on the Study of the Law, being an Introductory Lecture read in the public schools Oct. 25, 175S. By William Blackstone. O.xford, 175S. Quarto, pamphlet. $1.50. Idea Juris Scotici ; or, A Summary View of the Laws of Scotland. By Jame.- Innes. In the Savoy, 1733. Quarto. $2.50. A History of English Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy's Sitting in Parliaments, with an Account of our Ancient Laws. By Humphrey HoDY. London, 1701. Octavo. $3.00. A Grand Abridgement of the Common and Statute Law of England alpha- betically digested under proper heads and titles. By William Sheppard. 2 vols. London, 1675. Quarto. S6.00. Hugonis Grotii de Jure Belli ac Pacis. Libri tres. In quibus jus Natural et Gentium, item juris publici prscipua explicantur. Editio Nova cum Anno- tatis Auctoris, ex postrema ejus ante obitum cura. Accesserunt Annotata in Epistolam Pauli ad Philemon, et Dissertatio dc mari libero. .msteladami, 1670. Octavo. $2.00. The Student's Law-Dictionary or Compleat English Law-Expositor. Con- taining an Explanation of every Particular Word and Term in the Law, etc. In the Savoy, 1790. Octavo, pamphlet. $2.00. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with other Authentic In- struments, to which is prefi.xed an Introductory Discourse containing the History of the Charters. By William Blackstone. Oxford, 1759. Quarto, beauti- fully printed. $7.50. The Institutes of the Lawes of England ; or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, — not the Name of a Lawyer only, but of the Law It Selfe. 4 parts in 3 folio volumes. By Sir Edw. Coke. In English, English black letter, and law French arranged in parallel columns. London, 1629. $7.50. Fleta, seu Commentarius Juris Anglicapi. Partim e Codice MS. Cot- toniano ; partim ex Antiquis Rotulis, et veterrimis tam Historias quam Legum Anglis Scriptoribus Emendatus, Illustratus, et in Integrum Restitutus. Liber Primus (only) : Antiqua Placita Coronas Continens. Londini, 1735. (Edition by Sir Samuel Clarke.) Pamphlet, quarto. $2.00. Court-Hand Restored; or, The Student's Assistant in reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records, etc. Neatly engraved on twenty-three copperplates, describ- ing the Old Law-Hands, with their Contractions and Abbreviations. By Andrew Wright. London, 1879. Quarto. Cloth, S5.00. The Law of Charitable Uses. Revised and much enlarged, with Many Cases in Law both Antient and Modern; whereunto is now added the Learned Reading of Sir Francis Moor upon the Statute of 43 Eliz. concerning Charitable Uses. Methodically digested by George Duke. London, 1676. $4.00. Registrum Brevium tam Originalium quani Judicialium: Correctum & Emmendatum ad vetus Exemplar Manu scriptum, cujus Beneficio, a multis Erro- ribus Purgatum, ad usus quibus inservit, redditur accommodatius. Editio quarta, cui Subjicitur Appendix Diversa. London, 1687. $1.50. CURIOSITIES OF THE LAW-REPORTERS. New edition, revised and considerably enlarged. Sixth thousand. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. Sent by mail or express without extra charge. The favor with which this collection of quaint and curious excerpts from the law-books has been received by the press, the bench, the bar, and the general reader, has given it a place in literature which may be as lasting as the famous " Curiosities of Literature " by DTsraeli. The following paragi-aphs, taken at random from the book, will give the reader some idea of the contents : — While Chief Justice Richardson was attending the assizes at Salisbury, a pris- oner, whom he had condemned to death for some felony, threw a brickbat at his head ; but, stooping at the time, it only knocked off his hat. When his friends corigratulated him on his escape, he said, " You see, now, if I had been an upright judge, I had been slain." In England, the celebrated Ann, Countess of Pembroke, had the office of hereditary sheriff of Westmoreland, and exercised it in person. At the assizes at Appleb)', she sat with the judges on the bench. Debitores non presumuntur donare. "Yet debtors do make gifts, and large ones ; often giving away the whole of their estates. I have noticed that bank- rupts are men of very tender affections where their relations are concerned ; and they are so far unprejudiced that they often prefer a creditor." Lord Justice Knight Bruce, at the conclusion of the argument of a case con- taining a long statement of facts, summed them up in ten lines, and concluded thus : " This is the whole case, as it appears to me, spread as it has been, and as lawyers do spread it, and as lawyers sometimes cannot help spreading it, over a multitude of sheets of paper." Mr. Justice Emery, speaking of the common law of husband and wife, says, "The whole theory of the common law is a slavish one, compared even with the civil law. The merging of her name in that of her husband is emblematic of the fate of all her legal rights. The torch of Hymen serves but to light the pile on which those rights are offered up." " If we judge against former judgments, said Prisot, C.J., it is a bad example to the barristers and students of law : they will not have any faith in, or give any credit to, their books." — Year Book, 33 Hen. VI. 41. TRIALS. During his recent trip to Europe our senior partner made a collec- tion of English, Scotch, and Irish trials, which contains many of the most noted cases of the last three centuries. They cover a very wide range, — almost every subject upon which proceedings have been taken in the civil, criminal, ecclesiastical, and military courts. The list includes shorthand reports of cases of high treason, sedition, titles to the peerage, riot, conspiracy, murder, felonies of various kinds, divorce, adultery, crim. con., disobedience of military orders, neglect of duty, etc. We have also many of the noted cases which have been tried in this country during the past fifty years. We have not the space to present a complete list here ; but we shall be happy to mail ithout charge, to such of our readers as feel sufficient inter- est in the subject to apply for one, a short index to the collection.