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1946. Welcome Home, Mr. Justice Jackson, Robert H. [1892-1954]. [7" x 9" Black-and-White Photograph of Jackson Kissing His Wife]. [New York: Acme News Agency, August 2, 1946]. Light wear to edges, stamps, annotations and caption to verso. $125. * The caption reads (in part): "JACKSON BACK FROM WAR CRIMES TRIALS (...) Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson is greeted by his wife shortly after his arrival at Washington National Airport from Nuremberg, Germany, where he has been chief American prosecutor at the Nazi War Crimes Trials.

2015. ISBN-13: 9780963010643; ISBN-10: 0963010646. Jackson, E. Hilton. Latin for Lawyers. Containing I: A Course in Latin, with Legal Maxims and Phrases As a Basis of Instruction. II. A Collection of Over One Thousand Latin Maxims, with English Translations, Explanatory Notes, and Cross-References. III. A Vocabulary of Latin Words. Originally published: London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1915. viii, 300 pp. Reprinted 1992, 2015 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780963010643; ISBN-10: 0963010646. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * The perfect book for that considerable number of law students and lawyers with little or no knowledge of Latin. For those already proficient in Latin, the interest in this volume will lie in the large collection of legal maxims and phrases. The annotations are commendable for their brevity and unpretentious simplicity.

2014. ISBN-13: 9781616193706; ISBN-10: 1616193700. Jackson, E. Hilton. Latin for Lawyers. Containing I: A Course in Latin, with Legal Maxims and Phrases As a Basis of Instruction. II. A Collection of Over One Thousand Latin Maxims, with English Translations, Explanatory Notes, and Cross-References. III. A Vocabulary of Latin Words. Originally published: London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1915. viii, 300 pp. Reprinted 2014 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616193706; ISBN-10: 1616193700. Paperback. New. $24.95 * The perfect book for that considerable number of law students and lawyers with little or no knowledge of Latin. For those already proficient in Latin, the interest in this volume will lie in the large collection of legal maxims and phrases. The annotations are commendable for their brevity and unpretentious simplicity.

1972. Jackson, Bernard S. Theft in Early Jewish Law. Oxford; At the Clarendon Press, 1972. xviii, 316 pp. Publisher's blue gilt stamped cloth hardcover, very good, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $45. * Traces the history of the principal rules of the Jewish law of theft from the earliest Biblical sources to the end of the Tannaitic period (c. A.D.220). Makes comparisons to ancient, Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman laws, and their influence on Jewish rules. Examines different Biblical codes, the history of the methods of acquisitions, 'sacred' and 'secular' legal concepts in the second commonwealth and Tannaitic periods, and Roman jurisdiction in Palestine and its effects.

1953. Jacob, Ernest Fraser. Essays in the Conciliar Epoch. 2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953. viii, 264 pp. With index. Cloth, Good. $5. * Second edition with two further chapters and critical comments, first published in 1943. Contents: Conciliar thought. Dietrich of Niem. Englishmen and the general councils of the fifteenth century. English conciliar activity, 1395-1418. Ockham as a political thinker. Sir John Fortescue and the law of nature. The Brethren of the Common Life. The De imitatione Christi. Cusanus the Theologian. "Middle Ages" and "Renaissance." Verborum florida venustas. English university clerks in the later Middle Ages.

1721. Scarce Treatise by Jacob on Common, Civil and Canon Law Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. A Treatise of Laws: Or, A General Introduction to the Common, Civil, and Canon Law. In Three Parts. I. The Common Law of England: Illustrated in Great Variety of Maxims &c. Also the Use of this Law; With References to Statutes, in All Cases. II. Of the Civil Law, Intermix'd With the Law of Nations, and Its Use Here in England; and a Parallell Between Civil Law and Common Law. III. The Canon Law, and Laws Ecclesiastical; Containing the Authority, and Rights of the English Clergy; Of Patrons and Churches; Courts Ecclesiastical, Trials, &c. The Whole Adapted to the Use of Students, and Practicers of the Law; Students of the Universities; Civilians, Proctors, Ecclesiasticks, and All Young Gentlemen. London: Printed for T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1721. [ii], vi, [6], 533, [15] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, rebacked retaining existing spine with raised bands and lettering piece, blind rules to boards, blind… Read More

1724. Guidance for Land Stewards Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. The Compleat Court-Keeper: Or, Land Steward's Assistant. Containing, First, The Nature of Courts-Leets and Courts-Baron; With a General Introduction to Every Thing Incident to Them, According to Law and Custom. Secondly, The Manner of Holding Courts-Leet, Courts-Baron, And Courts of Survey, With the Charge to the Juries; And the Forms of Entring Those Courts in the Minute-Books and in the Court-Rolls; With Precedents of Great Variety of Presentments, Amerciaments, Estreats, Copies of Court-Roll for Life, And in Fee; Grants, Surrenders, Admittances, Licences, Forfeitures, and all other Proceedings of that Nature. Thirdly, The Manner of Keeping the Court-Baron for Trying of Actions; The Nature and Kinds of Actions, And of Pleadings; And Precedents of Declarations and Pleadings, And of Process, From the Precept or Original to the Distress or Execution; With Pleas and Recoveries Concerning Copyhold Lands. Fourthly, Precedents of Contracts,… Read More

1743. Scarce Abridged Edition of Jacob's Law-Dictionary Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. The New Law-Dictionary: Containing the Definition of Words and Terms and Also the Whole Law, And Practice Thereof, &c. Carefully Abridged: In the Most Compleat and Informing Manner, For the Use and Benefit of Students, Attornies and Solicitors, Stewards, And Clerks of Courts, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs of Counties, The Clergy and Others. And Particularly Referring to All the Law-Reports, And Acts of Parliament, Especially Those Statutes Which Have Lately Altered Our Law, Down to the Present Time. Whereto is Added, A Curious Catalogue or Register of the Year-Books and Reports, With the Times of Their Publication, &c. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot (Assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for R. Ware [et al.], 1743. [304] ff. Main text in Double columns. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Light… Read More

1768. The First Layman's Guide Published in America Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. Every Man His Own Lawyer: Or, A Summary of the Laws of England, In a New and Instructive Method, Under the Following Heads, Viz. I. Of Actions and Remedies, Writs, Process, Arrests, and Bail. II. Of Courts, Attornies and Solicitors Therein, Juries, Witnesses, Trials, Executions, &c. III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods, And How Acquired, Ancestors, Heirs, Executors and Administrators. IV. Of the Laws Relating to Marriage, Bastardy, Infants, Ideots, Lunaticks. V. Of the Liberty of the Subject, Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and other Statutes. VI. Of the King and his Prerogative, the Queen and Prince, Peers, Judges, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of Peace, Constables, &c. VII. Of Publick Offences, Treason, Murder, Felony, Burglary, Robbery, Rape, Sodomy, Forgery, Perjury, &c. and Their Punishment. All of Them so Plainly Treated of That All Manner of Persons May be Particularly Acquainted With Our Laws and… Read More

1840. London, 1840. 8th & last edition. London, 1840. 8th & last edition. "Rudiments of Law" Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. Hargrave, John, Editor. A Law Grammar, Or Rudiments of Law. London: William Crofts, 1840. xii, 266, [2] pp. Folding table (of descents). Includes two-page publisher catalogue at rear. Octavo (7-1/2" 4-1/2"). Contemporary quarter-cloth over paper-covered boards, printed paper title label to spine. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to text, underlining to a few passages, interior otherwise clean. $125. * Eighth and final edition. A terse but wide-ranging compendium of legal definitions, grounds and principles, maxims, moot points and cases, and terms of art, which Jacob intended for the instruction of "all youth at our Universities, or Inns of court, and young gentlemen in their private education.": Preface. The first edition was published in 1744. The final edition was reprinted in Boston in 1850. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the… Read More

2017. ISBN-13: 9781886363687; ISBN-10: 1886363684. Jacob, Giles. Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne, Editor. The Law-Dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the English Law; Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art; and Comprising Copious Information on the Subjects of Law, Trade, and Government. Corrected and Greatly Enlarged by T[homas] E[dlyne] Tomlins. Originally published: New York: Printed for, and Published by I. Riley, 1811. Six volumes. viii, 531; [2], 543; [2], 618; [2], 472; [2], 553; [2], 472 pp. Reprinted 2000, 2017 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363687. ISBN-10: 1886363684. Hardcover. New. $295. * Reprint of the first American edition, from the second Tomlins edition (1809). The New Law-Dictionary was first published in 1729 and is "Jacob's masterpiece and constituted an entirely new departure in legal literature, the dictionary which is also an abridgment." Cowley, p. xci. In contrast to earlier works, each entry summarizes all of the laws relating… Read More

1750. London, 1750. 6th ed. London, 1750. 6th ed. 1750 Edition of Jacob's Seminal Dictionary Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. [Holt, Sir John (1642-1710)]. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing, The Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms used in the Law; and Also the Whole Law, and the Practice Thereof, Under All the Heads and Titles of the Same. Together With Such Informations Relating Thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law, and Our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted From All Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Published to This Time. And Fitted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practisers of the Law, Members of Parliament, and Other Gentlemen, Justices of the Peaces, Clergymen, &c. The Law-Proceedings Being Done Into English, with Great Additions and Improvements to this Time. To Which is Annexed, a Table of References to All the Arguments and Resolutions of the Lord Chief… Read More

2004. ISBN-13: 9781584773764; ISBN-10: 1584773766. Jacob, Giles. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing, The Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms used in the Law; and Also the Whole Law, and the Practice Thereof, Under All the Heads and Titles of the Same. Together With Such Informations Relating Thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law, and Our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted From All Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Published to This Time. And Fitted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practicioners of the Law, Members of Parliament, and Other Gentlemen, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, &c. The Fifth Edition, with Great Additions and Improvements, and the Law-Proceedings Done Into English. To Which is Annexed, a Table of References to All the Arguments and Resolutions of the Lord Chief Justice Holt; in the Several Volumes of the Reports. London: Printed by Henry… Read More

2007. ISBN-13: 9781584778516; ISBN-10: 1584778512. Principles that Moved the Leaders of the American Revolution Jacob, Giles. The Laws of Liberty and Property. Or, A Concise Treatise of All the Laws, Statutes and Ordinances, Made for the Benefit and Protection of the Subjects of England: And the Preservation of their Lives, Estates, Lands, and Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Rights, Privileges, &c. The Second Edition. Originally published: London: John Cooper, 1734. [xii], 118 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778516; ISBN-10: 1584778512. Hardcover. New. $75. * Second edition, first published in 1724, this work outlines the laws "made and enacted for the Preservation of [liberty]" from Magna Carta onward. It is an excellent statement of the Whig principles that motivated the leaders of the American Revolution. Topics include "crimes against the King and the Subject," "Civil Rights and Liberties," Forfeitures," "Pardons," and "Laws Infringing Upon Public Liberty." Jacob… Read More

1716. London, 1716. First edition. London, 1716. First edition. First Edition of Jacob's JP Manual Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. The Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace, In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law, And of the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace, Constables, And Other Parish Officers Under Them, Compleat Down to this Time, And Some Special Cases in Law to Illustrate the Same. With Great Variety of the Best Approved and Authentick Precedents of Precepts, Summons, Warrants, Examinations, Commitments, &c. Regularly Interspersed, Fitting all Occasions for Putting of the Laws in Force. To Which is Added, A Particular Account of the Constitution and Government of a Considerable Work-House for Employing and Maintaining of the Poor Within the City of Bristol, As Settled by Act of Parliament, With Precedents Relating to It. And an Alphabetical Table, Shewing What Acts of Parliament do Concern the Business of a Justice. With a Compleat Table to the… Read More

1732. A Handbook for the Freemen of London Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. City-Liberties: Or, The Rights and Privileges of Freemen. Being a Concise Abridgment of All the Laws, Charters, By-Laws, And Customs of London, Down to this Time: Containing The Liberties and Advantages of the Citizens, Their Wives, Widows, Orphans, And Others; And the Laws Concerning Wills, Administration and Distribution of Estates, Actions, Attachments and Sequestrations. Also Of Binding Forth Apprentices, Taking out Freedoms, Election of Officers, and Courts in the City; Companies of Trade, &c. As Regulated by Late Statures. Very Useful To all Citizens and Other Inhabitants of the City of London. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1732. viii, 168, [8] pp. Two leaves at rear of text, both publisher advertisements, lacking. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Later three-quarter morocco over textured cloth, gilt fillets and title to spine, title page re-hinged. Some rubbing to extremities, moderate toning and occasional… Read More

1757. Handsome Binding [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744)]. Every Man His Own Lawyer: Or, A Summary of the Laws of England in a New and Instructive Method, Under the Following Heads, Viz. I. Of Actions and Remedies, Writs, Process, Arrests, and Bail. II. Of Courts, Attornies and Solicitors Therein, Juries, Witnesses, Trials, Executions, &c. III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods, and How Acquired; Ancestors, Heirs, Executors and Administrators. IV. Of the Laws Relating to Marriage, Bastardy, Infants, Ideots, Lunaticks. V. Of the Liberty of the Subject, Magna Charta, The Habeas Corpus Act, and Other Statutes. VI. Of the King and His Prerogative, The Queen and Prince, Peers, Judges, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of the Peace, Constables, &c. VII. Of Publick Offences, Treason, Murder, Felony, Burglary, Robbery, Rape, Sodomy, Forgery, Perjury, &c., And Their Punishment. All of Them so Plainly Treated of, That All Manner of Persons May be Particularly Acquainted With Our Laws and Statutes, Concerning Civil… Read More

1716. London, 1716. London, 1716. Jacob's Continuation of Hale's Pleas of the Crown Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. [Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676)]. Pleas of the Crown: The Second Part. Or, A Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject. By way of supplement to Sir Matthew Hale. Being a Continuation Thereof to This Time, From the acts of Parliament and Books of Reports, &c. In Sir Matthew's Method. London: Printed by J[ohn] N[utt], Assignee of E. Sayer, for D. Brown [et al.], 1716. [iv], 121 [i.e. 131], [1] pp. Pp. 129-131 misnumbered 119-121. General title page of Hale's Pleas of the Crown, with the same publisher and imprint date, bound after title page. Handsome period-style paneled calf by Philip Dusel, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, light soiling to title page, faint finger smudges to a few leaves. $1,250. * Only edition by Jacob. First published in 1678, Hale's important study of criminal… Read More

1772. London, 1772. 9th ed. London, 1772. 9th ed. Ninth Edition of Jacob's Great Dictionary Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. Ruffhead, Owen [1723-1769], Editor. Morgan, John, Editor. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing the Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms Used in the Law; As Also the Law and Practice, Under the Proper Heads and Titles. Together With Such Learning as Explains the History and Antiquity of the Law: Our Manners, Customs, And Original Government. Collected and Abstracted From All Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Commentaries, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, And Histories, Published to This Time. Adapted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practisers of the Law, Members of Parliament, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, And Other Gentlemen &c. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, 1772. [ii], iv, [972] pp. Main text printed in parallel columns. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-3/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind fillets to boards, raised… Read More

1782. London: Printed by W. Strahan & W. Woodfall, 1782. London: Printed by W. Strahan & W. Woodfall, 1782. Tenth Edition of Jacob's Great Dictionary Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. Morgan, J[ohn], Editor. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing the Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms Used in the Law; As Also the Law and Practice, Under the Proper Heads and Titles. Together With Such Learning as Explains the History and Antiquity of the Law: Our Manners, Customs, And Original Government. Collected and Abstracted From All Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Commentaries, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Published to This Time. Adapted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practisers of the Law, Members of Parliament, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, And Other Gentlemen &c. London: Printed by W. Strahan and W. Woodfall, 1782. Unpaginated. Main text printed in parallel columns. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind fillets to… Read More