A compendious library of the law, necessary for persons of all degrees and professions …

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Edition Details

Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: [London] In the Savoy, Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer) for J. Osbo[r]n, 1740
Type: Book
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Short Description

1 preliminary leaf, 196, [8], 192, [8] pages 17 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, A compendious library of the law, necessary for persons of all degrees and professions … is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher: J. Osbo, rn
Publication Date: 1740
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 2 editions
First edition Date: 1740
Last edition Date: 1740
General Notes: Precedents for last wills and testaments, and codicils. Forms of acquittances, affidavits, certificates of different kinds. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, and protests thereon, protections, &c. Petitions of apprentices on bad usage; of debtors; for suing out commissions of bankruptcy; for the sole use of an invention, &c. Recognizances of various kinds. The manner of recording and inrolling deeds; and account of the four terms and their returns, &c.
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KD662
OCLC: 15470769

Main Contents

pt. I. The laws relating to parish-officers, VIz. church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables, scavengers, surveyors of the highways, &c. The laws relating to the game. The laws relating to landlords, tenants, &c. The laws relating to jurys. Precedents for vestry-clerks, justices clerks, &c. A summary of the laws in force against idle and disorderly persons, rogues, vagrants, &c.–pt. II. The forms of bonds, or obligations, conditions, agreements, &c. Articles of apprenticeship, for leases, compositions, &c. Assignments of bonds, judgments, leases, policies. &c. Awards, deeds of bargain and sale, bottomree, charter-party, &c. Deeds of composition, declarations of trust, defeasances, feoffments, &c. Deeds relating to fines; leases, mortgages, &c. Letters of attorney, letters of licence, &c. Forms of deeds of copartnership, deeds relating to recoveries, releases, warrants of attorney, &c.

A compendious library of the law, necessary for persons of all degrees and professions …

A compendious library of the law, necessary for persons of all degrees and professions …