Law tracts
By: by William Blackstone ...
Contributors: Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; William Blackstone Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for Elizabeth Watts ...
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Magna Carta.; Law -- Great Britain.; Constitutional history -- England -- Sources.; Inheritance and succession -- Great Britain.; Land tenure -- Great Britain.; Copyhold.
Other titles: Magna Carta.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The tracts now printed in this volume were originally published separate"--P. [4] (first sequence).
Signatures: pi1 A⁴ B-I⁸ K⁴ ²A-E⁸ F⁴ *L⁴ L-Z⁸ 2A⁴(-2A4).
LC copy lacks the separate title page for The law of descents in fee-simple dated 1760 reported in Eller and has that title bound in before An essay on consanguinity.
Eller 239
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. An essay on collateral consanguinity, its limits extent and duration; title: II. Considerations on the question whether tenants by copy of court roll, according to the custom of the manner, though not at the will of the lord, are freeholders qualified to vote in elections for knights of the shire; title: III. The law of descents in fee-simple; title: IV. The Great charter and Charter of the forest, with other authentic instruments : to which is prefixed an introductory discourse containing an history of the charter.