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The solicitor's practice in the High Court of Chancery epitomized, from the commencement of the suit to the decree; Introducing interlocutory Matters on Petitions, Motions, References, &c. with Directions for serving Subpoena's, Notices of Motions, Orders, Warrants; and also Notices on Commissions for taking Answers and examining Witnesses, with full Instructions for executing the same. Together with the method of proceeding on certiorari bills, to remove Causes from inferior Courts of Equity into this. Also an appendix of useful precedents, For the easier Dispatch of the Client's Business in Town and Country. By a practising solicitor.
Boote, Richard, -1782.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The practical register: or, a general abridgement of the law, as it is now practised in the several courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, ... Together with all the rules of the said courts brought down to the year 1719. Collected by the author, John Lilly, ... In two volumes. The second edition. In which are comprized the rules of the ... courts, brought down to ... 1735, and likewise ... all the cases ...
Lilly, John, active 18th century.Date: 1735- Books
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A brief statement of opinions, given in the Board of Commissioners, under the sixth article of the Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, with Great Britain: with an appendix, containing articles of the treaties with Great-Britain; --the commissions under the said sixth article of the treaty of amity; --and references to opinions delivered by judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States: by one of the commissioners under the said sixth article.
Date: 1800- Books
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The attorney and solicitor's companion: or, compleat affidavit-man. Containing, the laws, statutes, rules, and orders, of our courts, relating to affidavits; and also Instructions for Drawing, and great Variety of Forms of Affidavits, in all Courts, and all Causes. To which are added, some curious depositions and interrogatories in the most extraordinary cases, with Directions how to be taken by Commissioners to Examine Witnesses, &c. Of Use to all Attornies and Solicitors.
Date: 1725- Books
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The practice of Courts-Leet, and Courts-Baron: Containing Full and exact Directions for holding the said Courts, and making up the Rolls or Records thereof. And Likewise, The Manner of Drawing, Entring and Proceeding on all Sorts of Presentments, Indictments, Verdicts, Fines, Forfeitures, Americaments, &c. Surrenders, Admissions, Recoveries, in Nature of Writs of Entry, en le post, &c. Distresses, Avowries, Replevins, Trespasses, Wastes, &c. with many curious Notes and Cases in Law relating thereto: As also, To Customs, Prescriptions, By-Laws, Waifs, Wrecks, Estrays, Heriots, Escheats, &c. and special Directions for giving Charges to the Jury and Homage in those respective Courts. Published from the manuscripts of Sir Will. Scroggs, Knt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of England. To this fourth edition are added very large additions, and the late Acts of Parliament concerning the duty on surrenders, admittances, &c. the whole carefully corrected from the Errors of the former Impression.
Scroggs, William, Sir, 1623?-1683.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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A practical treatise upon the law of annuities: wherein the different securities for annuities, and the remedies for the recovery thereof, are fully exemplified. Together with the determinations of the courts on the construction of the Annuity Act. To Which IS Added A Large Collection Of Precedents, Drawn and accurately settled in the Course of Practice, and adapted to every Species of Property that can be made an effectual Security for an Annuity; with Memorials thereof, whereby the same may be prepared with Ease, Precision, and Dispatch. By Robert Withy, Of Craven-Street, Solicitor; Member Of The Honourable Society Of The Inner Temple, Prodesse civibus.
Withy, Robert, solicitor.Date: 1800- Books
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Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight, formerly one of the justices of the Courts of King's-Bench and Common-Pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Collected and Written in French, By Himself; Revised and published in English, by Sir Harbottle Grimston, Baronet, Master of the Rolls.
Croke, George, Sir, 1560-1642.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]-1792- Books
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The solicitor's practice in the High Court of Chancery epitomized, from the commencement of the suit to the decree; Introducing interlocutory Matters on Petitions, Motions, References, &c. with Directions for serving Subpoena's, Notices of Motions, Orders, Warrants; and also Notices on Commissions for taking Answers and examining Witnesses, with full Instructions for executing the same. Together With The Method of Proceeding on Certiorari Bills, to remove Causes from inferior Courts of Equity into this. Also an appendix of useful precedents, For the easier Dispatch of the Client's Business in Town and Country. By a practising solicitor.
Boote, Richard, -1782.Date: 1782- Books
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Suffolk. A statement of the principal matters, taken into consideration on the 6th of March, 1798, by stewards of courts in the eastern part of the said county, assembled by public advertisement, and made at their request.
Date: 1798]- Books
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Remarks on a bill now depending in Parliament, for the better regulating the proceedings of the ecclesiastical courts. By a Right Reverend prelate. To which is added, an abstract of the said bill; whereby the Reader may the better judge of the Force of his L------p's Objections.
Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.Date: [1733]- Pictures
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A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: January 9th 1892Reference: 564947i- Books
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An Act for the more effectual preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests, and for the more easy recovery of debts and damages in the Courts of Great Sessions in the principality of Wales, and in the Court of Assize in the county palatine of Chester, and for the obviating a doubt which has arisen upon an Act made in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act, that all proceedings in courts of justice, within that part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, shall be in the English language, so far as the same Act doth or may relate to the courts of justice holden within the said principality, and for explaining and amending the said Act.
Great Britain.Date: 1733]- Books
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Animadversions on the succession to the crown of England, consider'd. Publish'd by Captain D-by. With remarks On a late Scandalous pamphlet, suppos'd to be written by Mr. Toland, Entituled, Limitations for the next Foreign Successor, &c. As also Some Particular observations on the Courts of the Electores, Dowager, and the Present Elector of Hannover, Occasion'd by the Resolution of Parliament, lately made in their Favour. Written by a Gentleman who has resided some Years at the said courts.
Date: [1701]- Books
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A bill for the better enlightening and cleansing the open places, squares, streets, lanes, alleys, passages, and courts, within the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great, London, and regulating the nightly watch and beadles within the said parish.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1755]- Books
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Charges and orders for the several officers of Christ's-Hospital; revised by the Committee of almoners at several meetings; and approved and confirmed by general courts held in the said Hospital on Monday the 29th day of November, 1784; and on Friday the 11th day of February, 1785.
Christ's Hospital (London, England)Date: [1785]- Books
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An attorney's practice epitomiz'd; Or The method, times and expences of proceeding in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, from the commencement of a suit, to the trial, final judgment and execution; so advantageously placed in opposite columns, as to shew at one view, the agreement or difference in the practice of the said courts: whereby many defaults and irregularities (which frequently happen) may be prevented, and business transacted either in town or country with ease, expedition and certainty. Perused by several officers of the courts, and by many eminent attornies and agents in London.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomized.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Books
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Charges and orders for the several officers of Christ's-Hospital; Revised by the committee of Almoners at several meetings; and approved and confirmed by general courts held in the said hospital on Monday the 29th day of November, 1784; and on Friday the 11th day of February, 1785.
Christ's Hospital (London, England)Date: 1797- Books
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The new retorna brevium: collected from the many printed law-books extant concerning the retorn of writs in the courts of Chancery, Exchequer, Queens-Bench, &c. Alphabetically digested in their proper Order. To which are added and intermix'd Many Special Modern Retorns not heretofore made Publick. With many useful notes and observations throughout the whole. Necessary for all Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Clerks, Attorneys, Sollicitors, Mayors, Bayliffs of Liberties, Coroners, &c. AS Also For the Officers of the several Counties-Palatine of Chester, Lancaster and Durham. With a compleat alphabetical table respecting the said several Courts in their Order. By R. G. a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas.
Date: 1707- Books
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The attorney and agent's new and exact table of costs in the courts of King's-Bench and Common-Pleas: Containing The Fees and Disbursements on the Part of the Plaintiff and Defendant, in the Prosecution and Defence of Actions, real, personal, and mixed; Indictments, and other Proceedings; as well those which concern private as privileged Persons, both in Town and Country. Including The Charges of Fines and Recoveries-Writs of Scire Facias-Habeas Corpus-Certiorari, and other Special Matters. Together with Bills of Costs for Plaintiff and Defendant, as taxed in the Exchequer of Pleas. Also, The Costs on prosecuting and defending Writs of Error, in the King's-Bench and Exchequer Chamber. To which are added, The Charges of obtaining Patents; the Costs of suing out and prosecuting a Commission of Bankrupt, and of obtaining a Bankrupt's Certificate; together with the Expence of Probates of Wills and Administrations at Doctors Commons. By an attorney and solicitor.
Attorney and Solicitor.Date: 1786- Books
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Customs and privileges of the manors of Stepney and Hackney in the county of Middlesex. Viz. Of tenants neglect, admission, &c. amercements, annoyances, appearance at two courts yearly, buildings, by-laws, claim, copyholders, drivers of common, fines, forfeitures, guardian, gavelkind, homage, heir, last will, leases, leet, mears and stakes, partition, quit-rents, reeve, recovereies, recognition, Stewards fees, severing, waste, &c. To which is prefix'd an act of perpetual establishment of the said customs and privileges, and for confirmation of the copyhold estates and customs of divers copyholders of the said manors, according to certain indentures of agreement, and a decrce in the High Court of Chancery, made between the lord of the said manors and the copyholders. With two alphabetical tables.
Hackney (London, England : Manor)Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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An attorney's practice epitomized: Or, The method, times and expences of proceedings in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas. From the commencement of a suit, to the trial, final judgment and execution; so advantageously placed in opposite columns, as to shew, at one view, the agreement or difference in the practice of the said courts: whereby many defaults and irregularities (which frequently happen) may be prevented, and business transacted, either in town or country, with ease, expedition and certainty. Perused by several officers of the courts, and by many eminent attornies and agents in London.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomized.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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An attorney's practice epitomized: or, the method, times and expences of proceedings in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas. From the Commencement of a Suit, to the Trial, final Judgment and Execution; so advantageously placed in opposite Columns, as to shew at one View, the Agreement or Difference in the Practice of the said Courts: Whereby many Defaults and Irregularities (which frequently happen) may be prevented, and Business transacted, either in Town or Country, with Ease, Expedition and Certainty. Perused by several Officers of the Courts, and by many eminent Attornies and Agents in London.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomized.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The practical register: or, a general abridgment of the law, as it is now practised in the several courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, digested by way of Common-Place, under Alphabetical Heads, with great Variety of Cases extracted from the Reports. Together with all the rules of the said courts brought down to the year 1719. Collected by the author, Joh Lilly, Gent. In two volumes. The second edition. In which are comprized the rules of the respective courts, brought down to this present Year 1735, and likewise (under their several Heads) all the cases reported since the Publication of the former Edition. To which are added, Two Tables: One of the several Acts of Parliament mention'd and explain'd throughout this whole Work; the Other, of the Names of the several Heads contained in each Volume. ...
Lilly, John, active 18th century.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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Six charges delivered to the Grand Juries of the county of Dublin, by Robert Day, Esq. M. P. One of his Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, and Chairman of said County. 1st Charge Jan. 15th, 1793. 2d Charge Jan. 13th, 1795. 3d Charge Jan. 12th, 1796. 4th Charge Oct. 4th, 1796. 5th Charge Jan. 10th, 1797. 6th Charge April 25th, 1797. To which are added, the addresses and resolutions of the sheriffs, magistrates and grand juries, at whose request these charges were published.
Day, Robert, 1745-1841.Date: 1797- Books
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The english pleader, being a select collection of various precedents of declarations on actions brought in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, in Case, Debt, Covenant, Trespass, Trespass and Assault, Ejeament, Replevin, Prohibition, &c. Taken from the Rolls in the Treasury of the said Courts, and Forms settled by Counsel and Special Pleaders, since the Commencement of the Act of Parliament for the Laws being in the English Language, and is the only Book approv'd of for Authentick Precedents. To which are added The Forms of Pleas and Issues both General and Special, with Replications thereto: As Also Judgments in both Courts on the several Actions: And likewise Forms and Precedents of Recoveries and Concords of Fines with the Method of suffering and passing the same. By a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.
Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn.Date: 1738