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BENCSIK, József.
Repertorium Iuris Public, Privati, Et Criminalis Hungarici, Seu Index Universalis Personarum, Rerum, Et Actionum Ex Iure Consuetudinario Verböczii, Articulis Comitialibus, Et Tavernicalibus, Decisionibus Curiae Regiae Urbario, Et Praxi Criminali.
Pozsony: Heirs of Belnaya, 1821..
folio. pp. 5 p.l., 474. woodcut headpiece & title vignette. text in double columns. contemporary half calf (covers rubbed, worming to head of spine). First Edition.
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BENTHAM, Jeremy [1748-1832].
A Rationale Of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied To English Practice.
London: Hunt And Clarke, 1827..
5 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxii, 606; xii, 700; xii, 658; xii, 645; xii, 787. with half-titles. index. A very good copy, bound in plain modern cloth. old review clipping mounted on front blanks. First Edition. Edited from Bentham's manuscripts, with preface, by John Stuart Mill. A landmark in the field of legal philosophy. "Bentham was one of the first scholars in English legal history to analyze the rules of evidence by reference to philosophy and logic. He called English evidence law the 'technical fee-gathering system' whose obscure rules and formalities were repugnant to the ends of justice. Evidence rules existed almost exclusively at common law, yet judges were not accountable for the decisions they rendered. Bentham argued that judges and lawyers used their stations to produce expense and delay in legal proceedings in order to make better business for themselves. The augmentation of profit constituted the goal of the technical fee-gathering system, while diminution and resolution of crime was only a collateral concern. For Bentham, this system was problematic because it was set up to further the financial and personal interests of a small professional class, rather than to further the interests of society as a whole." (Alanah Josey, Jeremy Bentham and Canadian Evidence Law: The Utilitarian Perspective on Mistrial Applications, Manitoba Law Journal) "Bentham's theory of evidence (or evidence and proof) in law is primarily a design theory for a system of adjective law, the main role of which is to implement substantive law assumed to be consonant with utility. The direct end of procedure is rectitude of decision, that is, correct application of law deemed to be good to true facts by means of reasoning based on relevant evidence. The indirect end of procedure is avoidance of preponderant vexation, expense and delay also judged by utility. Thus evidence is the means to arrive at truth in adjudication, and Bentham firmly stated that no artificial binding rules could promote rectitude of decision....Bentham's ideas may have seemed radical, his attacks on the legal profession may not have forwarded his case and his influence on law reform may have not been as direct as has often been stated, but there is no doubt that the mainstream set of working assumptions in law today, in most kinds of decision-making and in everyday life, are dominant, despite post-modernist, relativist and other sceptical tendencies. Seek empirical truth by informal inferential reasoning based on evidence in the presence of the parties." (William Twining, Bentham's Theory of Evidence: Setting a Context, Journal of Bentham Studies) Sweet & Maxwell II p. 27. Marke p. 524. Marvin p. 113.
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BLACKSTONE, Sir William [1723-1780].
Commentaries On The Laws Of England.
Oxford: Printed At The Clarendon Press, 1770-69..
4 Volumes. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., ii, [6], 485; 4 p.l., 520, xix; 4 p.l., 455, [1]blank, xxvii; 4 p.l., 436, vii, [1]blank, [39]index. 2 engraved plates (1 folding) in Vol. II. contemporary calf, rebacked & recornered, preserving spine labels & marbled endleaves (corners worn, foxing to last few leaves in Vol. IV). book labels of the Earl of Sefton. Fourth Edition of Vols. I-III; First Edition of Vol. I. Blackstone's Commentaries, based on his lectures given at Oxford beginning in 1753, constitute the first attempt since Bracton to provide a coherent account of English law as a whole. "Blackstone inaugurated university instruction in English law.His great achievement.was his reduction to lucid and systematic statement of that disordered bulk of laws which had gradually accumulated since the days of Bracton. Although Blackstone lacked the originality and force of some of his predecessors in English legal literature, such as Bracton, Coke and Hale, his Commentaries, written in a style at once dignified, urbane and clear, are the most complete survey of the English legal system ever composed by a single hand." (H.D.Hazeltine, Encyc. of Social Sciences) Sweet & Maxwell I 27.8. cfMarke p. 34. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 21. cfGrolier, English 100, 52. cfRothschild 407. See Marvin pp. 122-26 & Winfield pp. 337-340.
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BLACKSTONE, Sir William [1723-1780].
Commentaries On The Laws Of England.
London: Printed For W.Strahan, T.Cadell, & D.Prince, Oxford, 1783..
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 485; 4 p.l., 520, xix; 4 p.l., 455, xxvii; 4 p.l., 443, vii, [50]index. engraved frontis. portrait in Vol. I. 2 engraved tables (1 folding). contemporary tree calf, gilt backs (spine ends chipped, some cracks in spine, short splits in 3 joints, new lettering pieces, corners worn, Vol. I flyleaves lacking, collector's rubberstamp on verso of portrait). Ninth Edition, With The Latest Corrections Of The Author, And Continued By Richard Burn, LL.D. An important edition, the last to contain revisions made by Blackstone just before his death. The editor, Richard Burn, has also noted alterations made by subsequent acts of Parliament. Blackstone's Commentaries, based on his lectures given at Oxford beginning in 1753, constitute the first attempt since Bracton to provide a coherent account of English law as a whole. "Blackstone inaugurated university instruction in English law.His great achievement.was his reduction to lucid and systematic statement of that disordered bulk of laws which had gradually accumulated since the days of Bracton. Although Blackstone lacked the originality and force of some of his predecessors in English legal literature, such as Bracton, Coke and Hale, his Commentaries, written in a style at once dignified, urbane and clear, are the most complete survey of the English legal system ever composed by a single hand." (H.D.Hazeltine, Encyc. of Social Sciences) Marvin pp. 122-26. Sweet & Maxwell I p. 28. cfMarke p. 34. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 212. cfRothschild 407. cfGrolier, English 100, 52. cfRothschild 407. See Winfield pp. 337-340.
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BLACKSTONE, Sir William [1723-1780].
Law Tracts.
Dublin: Printed for Elizabeth Watts, 1767..
4 Parts in 1. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., vi, 136; [2] 87; cxiv; [2], 105, [1]. 2 engraved tables (1 folding). modern quarter calf. First Irish Edition of this collection of four of Blackstone's scarce early works, incorporating some revisions and corrections: An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity (1750), Blackstone's first legal publication, Considerations on Copyholders (1758), A Treatise on the Law of Descents (1759), and The Great Charter (1759). This last essay the first critical edition of the charter, described as a "major piece of pioneering scholarship", established Blackstone's reputation and led to his election to the Society of Antiquaries in 1761. This first Irish edition is uncommon. Sweet & Maxwell 30.19. cfMarke p. 135. cfMarvin pp. 127-28.
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[BLACKSTONE, Sir William] [1723-1780].
An Analysis Of The Laws Of England.The Sixth Edition.
Oxford: Printed At the Clarendon Press, 1771..
8vo. pp. xi, [1]blank, [4], 230, [15]index. 2 folding engraved charts. contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed (title with institutional blindstamp & former owner's name excised, 1 chart with short tear - no loss & tatty outer edge). ownership entry of Henry Hutton, dated 1780. Sixth, Preferred, Edition, the last to be published in Blackstone's lifetime. The Analysis forms an outline or abstract of Blackstone's series of lectures on the history of English law given at Oxford beginning in 1753, the most complete survey of the English legal system ever composed by a single hand. This sixth edition is of special significance as being the first to correspond to the printed version of the Commentaries, which incorporated revisions to the original lectures. Sweet & Maxwell I.27.6. Marvin p. 127. cfMarke p. 135.
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BLEACKLEY, Horace (Editor).
Trial of Henry Fauntleroy And Other Famous Trials for Forgery.
Edinburgh & London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, [1924]..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 269. 11 illus. (2 folding). cloth (discoloured, spine faded & edges bit frayed). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.
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BLUNDELL, R. H. & R. E. SEATON (Editors).
Trial of Jean Pierre Vaquier.
Edinburgh & London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, [1929]..
8vo. pp. xxiv, 208. 6 (of 10) illus. blue cloth (outer leaves foxed, some wear to spine, small discolouration on front cover). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.
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BLUNDELL, R. H. (Editor).
Trial of Buck Ruxton.
London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: William Hodge & Company Limited, [1950]..
8vo. pp. lxxxvii, 457. 16 illus. cloth (extremities bit frayed). Second Edition. Notable British Trials Series.
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BORNIER, Philippe [1634-1711].
Conférences Des Ordonnances De Louis XIV. Roy De France Et De Navarre, Avec Les Anciennes Ordonnances Du Royaume, Le Droit Écrit Et Les Arrests. Enrichies D'Annotations Et De Décisions Importantes. Nouvelle Édition, Corrigée & augmentée.
Paris: les Associez choisis par ordre de Sa Majesté, pour l'Impression de ses nouvelles Ordonnances, 1744..
2 Volumes. 4to. pp. 15 p.l., 530, [2], cclii, [12], lxxxiv, [82]index; 1 p.l., 1000. titles in red & black. woodcut title vignettes, ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs, gilt arms on upper covers of the Law Society of Upper Canada (rubbed, joints cracked, spine chipped, Vol. I front cover detached & flyleaves wanting, embossed institutional stamps, light marginal foxing). Contains the 1667, 1669, 1670 and 1673 ordonnances on civil, criminal, and commercial law, decrees and declarations on duels And regulations on the procedure of council. cfCamus-Dupin 701.
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[BRIQUET DE LAVAUX, François & LEFEBVRE, Amédée].
Examen De La Procédure Criminelle Instruite À Saint-Leu, À Pointoise, Et Devant La Cour Royale De Paris, Sur Les Causes Et Les Circonstances De La Mort De S.A.R. Le Duc De Bourbon, Prince De Condé.
Paris: Plassan Et Cie., 1832..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 393, [2]table. with half-title. 2 folding aquatint plans. contemporary quarter calf (joints cracked, ink deletion on title). from the library of noted bibliophile Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford and eighth Earl of Balcarres [1812-1880] with 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana' bookplate. First Edition. Louis Henri Joseph, Duc De Bourbon and the last Prince de Condé [1756-1830] was found on August 30, 1830, hanging by his neck from the fastening on his window in the château Saint-Leu. The year before his death he had drawn up a will naming the duc d'Aumale as his heir, and making considerable bequests to his mistress, the barronne de Feuchères. Murder was suspected, and the princes de Rohan, who were relatives of the deceased, instituted proceedings to dispute the will. This account of the judicial investigation into the Prince's death was prepared by the lawyers acting for the baronne de Feuchères to counter a prejudicial publication issued by the princes de Rohan one month before the hearings took place. The judicial opinion was that the Prince had committed suicide. The NUC entry calls for a frontispiece portrait, not present here; there is no evidence of one ever having been removed.
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BRUNEAU, A[ntoine] [1640-1720].
Nouveau Traité Des Criées Contenant Les Procédures, Pour Faire Toutes Sortes De Décrets Suivant les Coutumes, Ordonnances, Arrests & Règemens.Troisième Édition. Augmentée de plus de moitié.
Paris: Jacques Le Febvre, 1704..
4to. pp. 6 p.l., xxviii, [4], 590, [54]. title in red & black with woodcut printer's device. woodcut ornaments & initials. 1 woodcut text illus. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt back (little worn). Third Enlarged Edition (first: 1678, 12mo.). Brunet I 1291. Camus-Dupin 1182.
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BUGNYON, Philibert [d. 1590].
Legum Abrogatarum Et Inusitatarum In omnibus Curiis, Terris, Jurisdictionibus, & Dominiis Regni Franciae Tractatus. Editio Tertia, Mendis.
Brussels: Peter De Dobbeleer, 1702..
folio. pp. 2 p.l., [21], 696, [86]index, [2]div. title, 81, [8]index. with half-title. title in red & black. woodcut ornaments. contemporary calf, gilt back (slightly rubbed, paper repair to title affecting several letters of imprint, otherwise very good). from the library of Thomas Cushing Aylwin [1816-71], lawyer, politician and high court justice of Lower Canada, signed & dated in his hand. Third Enlarged Edition (first: 1564, 8vo.). Included is a commentary on the Moulin ordonnances proclaimed by Charles IX in February 1566, by which the judicial system of France was reorganized. Brunet VI 2581. Camus-Dupin 997.
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BURKE, Peter [1811-1881].
Celebrated Trials Connected With The Aristocracy In The Relations of Private Life.
London: William Benning & Co., 1849..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., v, 505, [1 leaf]. original blind-stamped cloth (joints & extremities frayed). First Edition. A second volume of trials was published in 1851. Sweet & Maxwell II p. 50.
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BURN, Richard [1709-1785].
Ecclesiastical Law.
London: Printed By H.Woodfall And W.Strahan.For A.Millar., 1767..
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., xxxi, 503; 2 p.l., 488; 1 p.l., 502; 2 p.l., 380, [92]index & errata. contemporary calf (rubbed, front cover of Vol. I detached, joints cracked, spine labels wanting, scattered foxing & marginal dampstaining). Second Edition. Arranged alphabetically according to subject, "[Burn's work] has always been deemed a book of authority; and Blackstone in his Commentaries, mentions it as one fo the very few publications on the subject of Ecclesiastical Law on which the reader can rely with certainty. Burn, by his diligent and accurate research, and by great judgment in the selection and use of his materials, laid the foundation of a work which subsequent editors have reared to a complete and full treatise upon English ecclesiastical law." (Marvin) cfMarvin 163. cfSweet & Maxwell I 166.22.
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