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Official papers relative to the dispute between the courts of Great Britain and Spain, on the subject of the ships captured in Nootka Sound, and the negociation that followed thereon; together with the proceedings in both houses of Parliament on the King's message: to whic are added the report of M. de Mirabeau, and the subsequent decrees of the National Assembly of France on the Family Compact.
Great Britain.Date: [1790]- Books
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Captain Opie's appeal against the illegal proceedings of Vice-Admiral Mathews, to the late Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great-Britain, &c. &c. To which is annexed, The letters that passed between Captain Opie and Mr. Corbett, Secretary of the Admiralty; With an introduction, shewing the necessity of a regulation in sea courts-martial.
Opie, John, -1743.Date: 1745- Books
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary, to the tenth year of Queen Anne. By William Salkeld, Late Serjeant at Law. With Two Tables, the one of the Names of the Cases, the other of the Principal Matters therein contained. In two volumes. Allow'd and approv'd of by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and all the Judges. The Third Edition carefully corrected, to which are now added proper References, more than in any former Edition, to the Reports of the Law.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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An introduction to the history of Great Britain and Ireland: Or, An inquiry into the origin, religion, future state, character, manners, morality, amusements, persons, manner of life, houses, navigation, commerce, language, government, kings, general assemblies, courts of justice, and juries, of the Britons, Scots, Irish, and Anglo-Saxons. By James Macpherson, Esq;
Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The new British traveller; or, a complete modern universal display of Great-Britain and Ireland: Being a New, Complete, Accurate, and Extensive Tour Through England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isles of Man, Wight, Scilly, Hebrides, Jersey, Sark, Guernsey, Alderney, And other Islands adjoining to and dependent on the Crown of Great-Britain. Comprising all that is worthy of Observation in every County, Shire, &c. And containing a full, ample, and circumstantial Account of every Thing remarkable in the several Cities, Market-Towns, Boroughs, Hundreds, Villages, Hamlets, Parishes, &c. throughout these Kingdoms. Being calculated equally to please the Polite - entertain the Curious - instruct the Uninformed - and direct the Traveller. The Whole Clearly and Accurately Displayed under the Following General Heads: Situation, Etymology, Extent, Roads, Capes, Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes, Civil Commotions, Trading and other Companies, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Offices, Earthquakes, Storms, Inundations, and other singular Occurrences, Rocks, Rivers, Mines, Grottos, Abbey-Lands, Fossils, Caves, Hills, Moors, Springs, Woods, Antiquities-Roman, Danish, and Saxon; Minerals, Plants, Agriculture, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Amphibious Creatures, Castles, Manors, Military Ways, Camps, Docks, Harbours, Bays, Havens, Markets, Fairs, Canals, Buildings, Fortifications, Palaces, Seats, Parks, Bridges, Forests, Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parish Churches, Monuments, Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions, Corporations, Charters, Charitable Foundations, Institutions, &c. Customs, Manners, &c. Handicrafts, Commodities, Military and Naval Exploits, Lives of all such Persons as have done Honor to the Counties, Towns, or Villages in which they were born, whether Kings, Princes, Peers, Generals, Admirals, Divines, Lawyers, Physicians, Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Legislators, &c. Government, Manufactures, Trades, Commerce, Revenues, Forces, Naval and Military, Polity, Power and Prerogative of the King, Laws, Prerogative, and Customs of the House of Lords, Privileges, Prerogative, & Usages of the House of Commons. Nature of the Legislature, and Modes of Proceeding in the various Courts of Justice, ancient and modern, &c. &c. &c. Being Really the Result of An actual and late General Survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentlemen, Each of whom has undertaken that Part for which his Study and Inclination has more immediately qualified him. And Including a Valuable Collection of Landscapes, Views, County-Maps, &c. Which Make an Admirable and Inimitable Groupe of Elegant Copper-Plate Prints. Also, A Complete Book of the Roads, a List of all the Fairs, and a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, Not to be found in any other Work of the Kind, but which are worthy the Notice of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, Travellers, Traders, and all Ranks of People whatever. The whole published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq. Assisted in the Digest and Arrangement of the Articles respecting Wales, by David Wynne Evans, F. R. S. In those descriptive of Scotland, by Alexander Burnet, L. L. D. And in such as relate to Ireland, &c. by Robert Conway, A. M. And Others, to whom many valuable and curious Circumstances have been communicated (for this Work) by Gentlemen of Rank and Abilities. Embellished with upwards of one hundred and fifty large, grand, and superb views of the principal Cities and Towns in Great-Britain and Ireland; perspective Views of Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, Castles, Ruins, Abbies, Cataracts, Sea Pieces, Landscapes, natural and artificial Curiosities, correct County and other Maps, Charts, Historical Pieces, &c. drawn with critical Exactness by the most capital Painters and Designers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, namely Hamilton, Carter, Griffith, O'Neal, Dodd, Metz, &c. and engraved in the most masterly Manner by the following ingenious Artists, viz. Thornton, Pollard, Lodge, Page, Roberts, Royce, Taylor, Carey, Rennoldson, Wooding, Kitchen, Conder, Hawkins, Walker, Flyn, Simpson, Grainger, Hogg, Myers, Smyth, Clowes, and others, who have distinguished themselves by their great Abilities in the Polite Arts.
Date: 1784- Books
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The accompts of the several Masters of the High Court of Chancery; of the Securities, Effects, and Cash, Belonging to the suitors of that court, Deposited in their Respective Hands. Published for the Information of the said suitors, By order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of Great Britain.
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.Date: 1725- Books
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A compendium of the laws and government ecclesiastical, civil and military, of Great Britain and Ireland, and dominions, plantations and territories thereunto belonging. With the maritime power thereof, and jurisdiction of courts therein. Methodically digested under thei proper heads. The second edition. By H. Curson, of the Inner Temple, Esq;
Date: 1716- Books
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The true interest of Great Britain, Ireland and our plantations: Or, A proposal for making such an union between Great Britain and Ireland, and all our plantations, as that already made betwixt Scotland and England. Whereby the attempts and endeavours of foreign powers and domestick factions, towards dividing, disuniting, weakening and dismembering us, may be prevented. And a new method of husbandry by greater and lesser canals; whereby the present value and product of our lands and waters may, in five or six years, be, at an avarage, at least quadrupled: the publick debts may be paid off; and such of our taxes, as are most burthen some and hurtful to our trade and industry, removed. And all this, at an expence of money and labour, at the ulmost extent, within Britain, not exceeding three or four years of the ordinary expence of money and labour, now, at an avarage, annuality bestowed upon our lands and waters. With proposals for removing the hurtful parts of the heretable courts and jurisdictions, and of the present holdings and tenures of lands in Scotland; and other such obstructions to all good law, power, government, union, industry and improvements whatsoever. By Sir Alexander Murray, of Stanhope, barnoet.
Murray, Alexander, Sir, -1743.Date: Printed for the author in the year MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, alphabetically digested under proper heads; from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary to the tenth year of Q. Anne. By William Salkeld, late Serjeant at Law. With two tables; one of the Names of the Cases, the other of the Principal Matters therein contained. In one volume complete. Allowed and approved of by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and all the Judges. Being the most useful Collection of Cases for Justices of Peace, and also for Barristers, Students, and all Practisers of the Law.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An Act for rendring more effectual the laws concerning commissions of sewers.
Great Britain.Date: 1709]- Books
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An Act for obviating a doubt which may arise upon an Act made in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act that all proceedings in the courts of justice within that part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, shal be in the English language, so far as the same doth or may relate to the court of the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, or to any members or branches thereof.
Great Britain.Date: 1732 [i.e. 1733]]- Books
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A bill, intituled, an act for taking away and abolishing the heretable jurisdictions in that part of Great Britain called Scotland; and for making satisfaction to the proprietors thereof; and for restoring such jurisdictions to the Crown; and for making more effectual provision for the administration of justice throughout that part of the United Kingdom, by the King's courts and judges there; and for rendering the union of the two kingdoms more complete.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1747?]- Books
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A bill, intituled, an act for taking away and abolishing the heretable jurisdictions in that part of Great Britain called Scotland; and for making satisfaction to the proprietors thereof; and for restoring such jurisdictions to the Crown; and for making more effectual provision for the administration of justice throughout that part of the United Kingdom, by the King's courts and judges there; and for rendering the union of the two kingdoms more complete.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1747?]- Books
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Additional reasons humbly offered against a bill from the lords, entitled, An act for exemplifying the last will of Arthur, late earl of Anglesey; and for making the same evidence in all the courts of law and equity in Great Britain and Ireland.
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An order of the High Court of Chancery, Made by the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of Great Britain, On the 26th of May, 1725.
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.Date: 1725- Books
Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, undecimo. At the parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the tenth day of May, anno domini 1768, in the eighth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, ... And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the thirteenth day of November, 1770; being the fourth session of the thirteenth parliament of Great Britain.
Date: MDCCLXXI- Books
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The new political state of Great Britain. Including the public affairs of foreign courts. Compiled by J. Morgan. Vol. 1. Containing, January, February, March, April, May, June. In these Six Numbers are divers curious and genuine Pieces, not to be met with elsewhere. To which is annexed, an appendix: with notable memoirs of the Lives, Characters, Writings, &c. of several Persons of Note and Figure, chiefly in the Republic of Literature. With a compleat table of contents to the whole.
Morgan, J., active 1739.Date: [1730]- Books
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An order of the High Court of Chancery, Made by the Right Honourable Peter Lord King, Baron of Ockham, Lord High Chancellour of Great Britain, On the 4th Day of November, 1725.
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.Date: 1725- Books
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The case of German Pole Esq; with regard to the bill now depending in Parliament, entitled, an act for exemplifying the last will of Arthur, late Earl of Anglesey, and for making the same evidence in all the courts of law and equity in Great Britain and Ireland.
Pole, German.Date: 1738]- Books
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An Act for taking away and abolishing the heretable jurisdictions in that part of Great Britain called Scotland; and for making satisfaction to the proprietors thereof; and for restoring such jurisdictions to the Crown; and for making more effectual provision for the administration of justice throughout that part of the United Kingdom, by the King's courts and judges there; and for obliging all persons acting as procurators, writers, or agents in the law in Scotland to take the oaths; and for rendering the union of the kingoms more complete.
Great Britain.Date: 1747]- Books
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The laws of sewers; or the office and authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, publick Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners in making Laws and Ordinances, and imposing Rates or Taxes for repairing the Walls, Banks, and other Defences. III. Of their Power by Law as to Distresses, and decreeing Lands to be sold to levy Charges for Repairs, and inflicting Punishments, by Fine and otherwise. Also The Particular Offices of Bailiffs, Surveyors, Collectors, and other Officers under the Commissioners, and Proceedings of a Court of Sewers, Orders, Warrants, &c. To which are added, the laws relating to Rumney-Marsh, and other marshes and fens.
Date: 1732- Books
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Opera mineralia explicata: or, The mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the City of London, of and for the mines, the mineral and the battery works. With all the original grants, leases, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices: as also the records of the said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713. Likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor, be their number ever so great. By M.S. M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer).Date: [1713]- Books
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke; collected and methodized by John Tracy Atkyns, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer. With Notes and References, and Three Tables; one of the several Titles and Divisions, another of the Names of the Cases, and a third of the Principal Matters. ...
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]-82- Books
Opera mineralia explicata: or, the mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the city of London, of and for the mines, the mineral and the battery works ; with all the original grants, leafes, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices : as also the records of said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713 likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor, be their number ever so great / by M[oses] S[tringer], M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer)Date: [1713]- Books
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Opera mineralia explicata: or, The mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the city of London, of and for the mines and minerals and the battery works. With all the original grants, leases, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices: as also the records of the said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713. Likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor be their number ever to great. By M.S. M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer).Date: [1713]