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The attorney's compleat guide in the Court of King's Bench . Containing the whole modern practice of the Court, laid down in a new, familiar, and concise Manner, with Practical Remarks on each Head, illustrated by Cases selected from the best and latest Authorities: and also an account of the monies paid out of pocket on each particular article of business at the publick offices and judges chambers; so as to enable the Young Clerk to prosecute or defend a Suit from its Commencement to Judgment and Execution, through all the different Minutiae of Practice, without further Assistance. By an attorney o the Court.
Attorney of the courtDate: 1773
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The laws respecting wills, testaments, and codicils , and executors, administrators, and guardians, Laid down in a plain and easy Manner; in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained; and in which The Statute of Wills, and such Parts of the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries as relate to the Subject of Devises, are particularly considered and expounded: with Remarks and Directions For the Use of those who are desirous of making their own Wills. Also The Methods of Descent and Distribution of Property, where no will is Made; as collected from the several reports and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Containing likewise a complete abstract of the Legacy Act, An Account of the Expence of proving a Will, and of obtaining Letters of Administration; the Stamps on which Discharges for Legacies and Distributive Shares, are to be written, &c. &c. With an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of Wills, Testaments, Codicils, &c. relative to every Description of Property. The third edition corrected and much enlarged. By the author of the laws respecting landlords and tenants.
Bird, James BarryDate: [1799]
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Modern entries being a collection of select pleadings in the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, viz. Declarations, Pleas in Abatement and in Bar, Replications, Rejoinders, &c. Demurrers, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments, Forms of making up Records of Nisi prius, and Entring of Judgments, &c. in most Actions. Many of them drawn or perused by Mr. Broderick, Carthew, Comyns, Darnel, Holt, Levinz, Lutwyche, Northey, Parker, Pemberton, Pengelly, Pollexfen, Raymond, Salkeld, Saunders, Shower, Thomson, Trevor, Wearge, and other learned Counsel. AS Also Special Assignments of Errors, and Writs and Proceedings there-upon, both in the said Courts and in Parliament. With The Method of suing to and reversing Outlawries by Writ of Error or otherwise. To which is added a collection of writs in most cases now in practice. With Two Tables, one of the Names of the Cases, and the other of the Pleadings and Writs. By John Lilly, Gent. late Principal of Clifford's Inn.
Lilly, John, active 18th centuryDate: MDCCXLI. [1741]
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Addenda to the first edition of A compendious system of the bankrupt laws, by William Cooke of Lincoln's-Inn; Esq. Barrister at Law
Cooke, William, 1757-1832.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
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The office of sheriff shewing its history, antiquity, powers, and duties; the Manner of appointing the High Sheriff, his Under-Sheriff, and other Deputies: Also, the Election of Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, with the Bye-Laws of the City relating thereto; and other useful Matter. Together With The Nature of Actions by and against Sheriffs, including all the Modern Determinations to the End of Trinity Term last; with necessary Precedents of Returns to Writs, &c. The second edition, corrected, and considerably improved. To which is added, The office and duty of coroner: with an appendix of useful precedents. By John Impey, Of The Inner Temple, Author Of "the Modern Pleader," Calculated For The Office Of AN Attorney; And "the Practice Of The Courts Of King's Bench, And Common Pleas.".
Impey, John, d. 1829.Date: 1800
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The law's disposal of a person's estate who dies without will or testament shewing, in a clear, plain, easy, and familiar manner, how a man's family or relations will be entitled to his real and personal estate, by the Laws of England, and the Customs of the City of London and Province of York. To Which IS Added The Disposal of a Person's Estate By Will and Testament; Containing An Explanation of the Mortmain Act, with Instructions and necessary Forms for every Person to make, alter, and republish his own Will: Likewise Directions for Executors how to act after the Testator's Death, with respect to proving his Will, taking upon them the Executorship, getting in the Effects, and paying Debts and Legacies. By Peter Lovelass, of the Inner Temple, Gent.
Lovelass, Peter, fl. 1786-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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The young clerk's tutor enlarged being a most useful collection of the best precedents of recognizances, obligations, conditions, acquittances, bills of sale warrants ... To which are annexed several of the best copies both of Court and Chancery hand now extant, by Tho. Ollyff, ..
Hawkins, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1717
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The attorney's vade mecum, and client's instructor , treating of actions: (such as are now most in use;) of prosecuting and defending them: of the pleadings and law. Also Of Hue And Cry. The Subjects Arranged In A Clear And Perspicuous Manner. In three volumes. ... . To the second volume is added, an appendix, containing a few precedents, Being Copies Of Complete Records. By John Morgan, Of The Inner Temple, Barrister At Law.
Morgan, John, b. 1757 or 8.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
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Sir Orl. Bridgman's conveyances being select precedents of deeds and instruments concerning the most considerable estates in England.
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great LeverDate: 1725
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The magistrate's assistant or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament Of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To Which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Tryals per pais or, the law of England concerning juries by nisi prius, &c. Newly revised, and much inlarged, with an addition of prededents, and forms of challenges, Demurrers upon Evidence, Bills of Exception, Pleas Puis le Darrein Continuance, &c. The fourth edition with large additions. To which is now added, a farther treatise of evidence. Together with a New and Exact Table to the whole Matter. Very Useful and Necessary for all Lawyers, Attornies and other Practisers, especially at the Assises. B G. D. of the Inner-Temple, Esq;.
Duncombe, GilesDate: 1702
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The second part of the The modern conveyancer , or, conveyancing improved, in two volumes. Being a choice collection of presidents, on most occasions, drawn after the manner of conveyancing now in use. ... With an exact table to the whole.
Date: 1704
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Practical forms being chiefly designed as an appendix to The practice of the Court of King's Bench in personal actions. By William Tidd, Esq. Of The Inner Temple.
Tidd, William, 1760-1847.Date: 1799
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The president of presidents . Or, one general president for all common assurances by deeds: being a perfect abstract. of the General Learning and Forms of Presidents, touching or any ways relating to all manner of Conveyances now in Use. First written by William Sheppard, Esq; and now illustrated with many excellent cases in the law, and several necessary Instructions how to discover the Defect of any Conveyance, in order to give a true and perfect Judgment what Right or Title any Man hath to his Lands or Goods.
Sheppard, William, d. 1675?.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]
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The attorney's compleat pocket-book . Containing near four hundred of such choice and approved precedents, in law, equity, and conveyancing, as an attorney may have occasion for, when absent from his office; Digested under the following Heads; Acknowledgements. Acquittances. Affidavits. Agreements. Appointments. Assignments. Awards. Bail-Pieces. Bargains and Sales. Bills. Bonds. Covenants. Defeasances. Distress for Rent. Exchanges. Fines. Gifts. Grants. Leases. Lease and Release. Letters of Attorney. Letters of Licence and Composition. Livery of Seisin and Attornments. Memorials. Mortagages. Notices. Partition. Petitions. Promissory Notes. Protections. Recoveries. Releases. Revocations. Separation. Settlements. Tickets. Uses. Warrants. Wills. Calculated for the Use of Practisers in general, but more particularly for the Assistance of Country Attornies and their Clerks: Also necessary for Gentlemen, Landlords, Stewards, Tenants, &c. &c. &c. By an attorney at law, Author of the Practice Epitomized.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomizedDate: 1756
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The attorney's compleat pocket-book . Containing above four hundred of such choice and approved precedents, in law, equity, and conveyancing, as an attorney may have occasion for, when absent from his office; Digested under the following Heads; Acknowledgments, Acquittances, Affidavits, Agreements, Appointments, Assignments, Awards, Bail-Pieces, Bargains and Sales, Bills, Bonds, Covenants, Defeasances, Distress for Rent, Exchanges, Fines, Gifts, Grants, Leases, Lease and Release, Letters of Attorney, Letters of Licence and Composition, Livery of Seisin and Attornments, Memorials, Mortgages, Notices, Partition, Petitions, Promissory Notes, Protections, Recoveries, Releases, Revocations, Separation, Settlements, Tickets, Uses, Warrants, Wills. Calculated for the Use of Practisers in general, but more particularly for the Assistance of Country Attornies and their Clerks: Also necessary for Gentlemen, Landlords, Stewards, Tenants, &c. By the author of the Attorney's practice epitomized. The fifth edition; to which are now added the proper stamps to the various kinds of precedents, and other useful additions.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomizedDate: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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The young secretary's guide: or, A speedy help to learning . In two parts. ... By J. Hill. Made suitable to the people of New-England; but with a small alteration, may suit all parts of America.
Hill, John, Gent, fl.1712.Date: 1750
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Instructor clericalis the first part. Directing clerks both in the court of Queen's-Bench and Common-Pleas: In The Abbreviation and Contraction of Words (and thereby the speedy Reading of Precedents) in the Filling up and Suing out Writs of first Process, in Drawing Declarations, Marking up Issues, Ingrossing Records, Entring Judgments, and Suing out Executions: Also Pleas and Demurrers, &c. With an addition of special notes and observations in the Court of Common-Pleas, Alphabetically Digested.
R. G. (Robert Gardiner), fl. 1705-1728.Date: 1714
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The laws respecting parish matters . Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James BarryDate: [1799]
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A compendious and accurate treatise of fines upon writs of covenant and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post; ..
Brown, William, active 17th century-18th centuryDate: 1725
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The office and duty of coroners shewing the mode of appointment; With The Powers And Duties In Taking Inquisitions, &c. &c. &c. to which is added, the mode of holding the Court of Coroner, precedents of inquisition, and all other necessary Precedents. By John Impey, Of The Inner Temple, Author Of The "practice Of The Courts Of King's Bench And Common Pleas," &c. &c.
Impey, John, d. 1829.Date: 1800
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The scrivener's guide ... Being choice and approved forms of precedents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better Method than any yet Extant; and useful for all gentlemen, especially those that practice the law, viz. Articles of Agreement, Assignments, Acquittances, Bankrupts, Bargains and Sales, Bills, Bonds, Certificates, Conditions, Copartnerships, Copyhold Precedents, Covenants, Defeazances, Deputations, Grants, Jointures, Indentures, Leases, Letters of Attorney, Licences, Memorials, Mortgages, Obligations, Partitions, Petitions, Provisos, Releases, Revocations, Settlements of Estates, Warrants, &c. Wills, By Nicholas Covert, one of the Attornies of the Court of Common Pleas. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, by William Bohun of the Middle Temple, Esq; To this fourth edition is also added very large additions by an eminent hand.
Covert, NicholasDate: MDCCXXIV. [1724]
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The attorney's vade mecum, and client's instructor , treating of actions: (such as are now most in use;) of prosecuting and defending them: of the pleadings and law. Also of Hue and Cry. The Subjects arranged in a clear and perspicuous Manner. In two volumes. ... . To the second volume is added an appendix, containing a few precedents, being Copies of Complete Records. By Joh Morgan, Of The Inner Temple, Barrister At Law.
Morgan, John, b. 1757 or 8.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
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A new appendix to The modern justice containing continuations of statutes relating to Justices of Peace to the Year 1722. And the End of the last Parliament. Particularly concerning the Customs, and Running of Goods, Robberies and Transportation of Felons, the Act prohibiting the Wear of Callicoes, the Quarentine Acts for Prevention of the Plague, the Act for preventing Forgery relating to the Stocks, and for the better preservation of the game, &c. And Also The Manner of Convictions, for all kinds of Offences: And the Discretionary Power of Justices in all Cases, given by Statute. With Proper Precedents under the several Heads. By Giles Jacob, Gent.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1722
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The law of devises, last wills, and revocations . By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert. To which is added, a select number of wills, drawn by men eminent in the profession.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: 1792