The Clerk's Magazine, Or Law-Repository, Containing: A Variety of.

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Dublin: W. and H. Whitestone, 1779. A Dublin Edition of a Popular Legal Manual [Practitioner in the Law]. The Clerk's Magazine, Or Law-Repository. Containing: A Variety of the Most Useful Precedents [.] With Necessary Directions for Making Distresses for Rent, &c. As the Law Between Landlord and Tenant Now Stands. To Which is Added, The Doctrine of Fines and Recoveries, In Their Forms. Together with Those of Common Writs, Affadavits, Memorials for Registering Deeds, And Assignments of Judgments, Pursuant to the Several Acts of Parliament Made in Ireland: Also a Choice Collection of Declarations in the King's Bench, Common-Pleas and Exchequer. To this Edition are Added. Several Useful Precedents, And an Appendix Relating to Business in Chancery; The Whole Calculated, And Now Much Enlarged, For the Use of Young Gentlemen of the Law and Others in this Kingdom. Dublin: Printed for W. and H. Whitestone, No. 29, Capel-Street, 1779. Fifth edition. [12], 215, [1] pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 3-3/4"; 16.5 x 9.5cm). Contemporary calf, gilt red lettering piece and blind ornaments to spine. Worn and scuffed, with some scratches and stains to boards, rubbing to board edges and head of spine, corners bumped and lightly worn. Boards loose, secured by cords. Light toning to interior, faint dampstaining to edges in a few places, light foxing and soiling to a few leaves. Early ownership signature (Geo[rge] W. Cartwright) to head of title page. $150. * Fifth Dublin edition. First published in London in 1739 as The Young Clerk's Magazine; Or, English Law-Repository, this is a formbook with a section containing instructions for conveyancing. It was intended for law clerks, lawyers and laymen. A popular work, it went through six editions in London, the last in 1772, four editions in Philadelphia from 1774 to 1795, and five editions in Dublin from 1749 to 1791. It serves as an excellent historical window into the Irish legal system during the Georgian era, which closely mirrored English common law but had its own distinct statutes. The Dublin editions are scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies of the fifth edition. English Short-Title Catalogue T226804.

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Title
The Clerk's Magazine, Or Law-Repository, Containing: A Variety of.
Author
Practitioner in the Law; Cooper, Austin (his copy)
Publication year
1779
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Soft cover
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Dublin: W. and H. Whitestone, 1779.
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