Historical law-tracts
Edition: The third edition with additions and corrections.
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, London, and J. Bell and W. Creech, Edinburgh
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: Law; History
Notes: Signatures: a⁸ A-2F⁸ G⁴.

"The discourses relate, each of them, to subjects common to the law of England and of Scotland"--Pref.

ESTC T67128
Table of contents: title: I. Criminal law; title: II. Promises and covenants; title: III. Property; title: IV. Securities upon land for payment of debt; title: V. Privilege of an heir-apparent in a feudal holding to continue the possession of his ancestor; title: VI. Regalities, and of the privilege of repledging; title: VII. Courts; title: VIII. Brieves; title: IX. Process in absence; title: X. Execution against movables and land for payment of debt; title: XI. Personal execution for payment of debt; title: XII. Execution for obtaining payment after the death of the debtor; title: XIII. Limited and universal representation of heirs; title: XIV. Old and new extent.