The Law and Practice of Distress and Replevin, by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert. To which is added An Appendix of Precedents. The Third Edition, with Considerable Additions, Taken from former and later Reports, and other Books of Authority; And full Practical Directions, from the Seizure of the Distress to the Sale and Suing a Replevin. By William Hunt, of Lincoln's Inn.

GILBERT (Sir Jeffray)

Published by London: printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall Law Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty; for E. and R. Brooke., 1794

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8vo, 209 x 13o mms., pp. [v], vi - xii, 339 [340 blank], [56 - index], recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco labels; title-page slightly detached at inner margin, but a sound copy. Sir Jeffray Gilbert (1674 1726) was a distinguished judge and legal writer; he left a number of manuscripts, and this work was first published posthumously in 1755. It derived from a very lengthy manuscript on English law, which he left unpublished and incomplete. The only work that Gilbert published, and that anonymously, in his lifetime was an Abstract of Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' (1709). Gilbert's description of replevin (in English law, a legal remedy for a person to recover goods unlawfully withheld from his or her possession) was one of the first works to treat the concept so thoroughly. Seller Inventory # 7808

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Title: The Law and Practice of Distress and ...

Publisher: London: printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall Law Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty; for E. and R. Brooke.

Publication Date: 1794

Binding: Hardcover