A compendious library of the law, necessary for persons of all degrees and professions ...
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer) for J. Osbo[r]n
Published: 1740
Place of publication: [London] In the Savoy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Law -- Great Britain; Parishes -- Great Britain; Game-laws -- Great Britain; Landlord and tenant -- Great Britain; Tramps -- Great Britain; Forms (Law) -- Great Britain
Notes: Precedents for last wills and testaments, and codicils. Forms of acquittances, affidavits, certificates of different kinds. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, and protests thereon, protections, &c. Petitions of apprentices on bad usage; of debtors; for suing out commissions of bankruptcy; for the sole use of an invention, &c. Recognizances of various kinds. The manner of recording and inrolling deeds; and account of the four terms and their returns, &c.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The laws relating to parish-officers, viz. church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables, scavengers, surveyors of the highways, &c. The laws relating to the game. The laws relating to landlords, tenants, &c. The laws relating to jurys. Precedents for vestry-clerks, justices clerks, &c. A summary of the laws in force against idle and disorderly persons, rogues, vagrants, &c.; title: pt. II. The forms of bonds, or obligations, conditions, agreements, &c. Articles of apprenticeship, for leases, compositions, &c. Assignments of bonds, judgments, leases, policies. &c. Awards, deeds of bargain and sale, bottomree, charter-party, &c. Deeds of composition, declarations of trust, defeasances, feoffments, &c. Deeds relating to fines; leases, mortgages, &c. Letters of attorney, letters of licence, &c. Forms of deeds of copartnership, deeds relating to recoveries, releases, warrants of attorney, &c.