Layman's Guide (2 results)

A Scarce 1824 New Jersey Layman's Guide [Layman's Guide]. [New Jersey]. The Law Instructor: Or, Farmer's & Mechanic's Guide: Containing a Commentary on the Act Entitled "An Act Constituting Courts for the Trial of Small Causes," With its Supplements, Together with Concise and Correct Precedents or Statements of Demands in Various Actions; Agreements, Acquittances, Articles of Co-Partnership, Bills of Sale, Bonds, Deeds, Mortgages, Indentures, License of Debtors, Leases, Releases, Pleas, Wills and Codicils, &c. &c. &c.: Laid Down in So Plain and Simple a Manner that All Persons, However Unskilled, Can Draw any Instrument of Writing Without the Assistance of an Attorney. Bridgeton, NJ: Printed and Published by Simeon Siegfried, 1824. 100 pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/4"). Later library buckram, gilt title to spine, gilt institution name to foot of spine, endpapers renewed. Negligible light rubbing to extremities, light browning and foxing to text, early owner initials to front endleaf, early owner inscription ("Robt. A. Thorp's Property, 1825") to head of title page, small library stamps to verso. $250. * Only edition. With an appendix titled "A Collection of Useful Information, Necessary to be Known by the Inhabitants of the State of New Jersey" (pp. 83-96), which discusses such matters as gun ownership, fences, game laws, paupers and the sale of alcoholic beverages. This book may have been owned by Robert A. Thorpe [d.1835], a resident of Perth Amboy who might have found this layman's guide useful in his capacity as a local business owner. OCLC locates 8 copies, 3 in law libraries (Harvard, University of Virginia, Yale. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1801-1860 830. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8218.

A Compact Gentleman's Law Library [Great Britain]. [Layman's Guide]. A Compendious Library of the Law: Necessary for Persons of All Degrees and Professions. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing, I. The Laws Relating to Parish-Officers, Viz. Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Scavengers, Surveyors of the Highways, &c. II. The Laws Relating to the Game. III. The Laws Relating to Landlords, Tenants, &c. IV. The Laws Relating to Juries. V. Precedents for Vestry-Clerks, Justices Clerks, &c. VI. A Summary of the Laws in Force Against Idle and Disorderly Persons, Rogues, Vagrants, &c. Part II. Containing, I. The Forms of Bonds, Or Obligations, Conditions, Agreements, &c. II. Articles of Apprenticeship, For Leases, Compositions, &c. III. Assignments of Bonds, Judgments, Leases, Policies, &c. IV. Awards, Deeds of Bargain and Sale, Bottomree, Charter-Party, &c. V. Deeds of Composition, Declarations of Trust, Defeasances, Feoffments, &c. VI. Deeds Relating to Fines, Leases, Mortgages, &c. VII. Letters of Attorney, Letters of Licence, &c. VIII. Forms of Deeds of Copartnership, Deeds Relating to Recoveries, Releases, Warrants of Attorney, &c. IX. Precedents for Last Wills and Testaments, And Codicils. X. Forms of Acquittances, Affidavits, Certificates of Different Kinds. XI. Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, And Protests Thereon, Protections, &c. XII. Petitions of Apprentices on Bad Usage, Of Debtors, For Suing Out Commissions of Bankruptcy, For the Sole Use of an Invention, &c. XIII. Recognizances of Various Kinds. XIV. The Manner of Recording and Inrolling Deeds, An Account of the Four Terms and Their Returns, &c. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot, (Assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for J. Osborn, At the Golden Ball in Pater-Noster-Row, 1743. Two parts, each with title page. [iv], 191, [9]; 204, [10] pp. Publisher advertisement facing title page of first part. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, gilt publication date to foot of spine, corners mended, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges. Moderate toning to interior, negligible faint dampstaining to a few places on the top and fore-edges of text block, faint spotting to preliminaries, early owner inscription, "James Constable. His Bo.