A collection of tracts relative to the law of England
Subtitle: from manuscripts
By: now first edited by Francis Hargrave
Publisher: Professional Books Ltd.
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780862051396
Subjects: Law; Courts
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Dublin : Printed for E. Lynch, 1787.

Vol. I. No more published.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Preface; title: I.A treatise in three parts. Pars prima: De jure maris et brachiorum ejusdem. Pars secunda: bib portibus maris. Pars tertia: Concerning the custom of goods imported and exported / from a manuscript of Lord Chief-Justice Hale; title: II. Considerations touching the amendment or alteratin of lawes / by Lord Chief-Justice Hale; title: III. A treatise of the maisters of the Chauncerie; title: IV. Two pieces touching suits in Chauncery by subpoena; title: V.A discourse concerning the courts of King's Bench and Common-Pleas / by Lord Chief-Justice Hale; title: VI. A discourse against the jurisdiction of the King's Bench over Wales by process of latitat; title: VII. The abuses and remedies of Chancery / by George Norburie; title: VIII. Concerning the effects of sentences of the courts ecclesiastical in cases of marriage, when pleaded or offered in evidence in the courts temporal / by the editor; title: IX. An argument in the Exchequer Chamber on giving judgment in the case of Perrin and another against Blake / by Justice Blackstone; title: X. An argument on the appeal from Chancery in the case of Messrs. Wicker and Sir Thomas and Lady Broughton against John Mitford, Esquire, delivered at the bar of the House of Lords in June, 1782 / by the editor; title: XI. Observations concerning the rule in Shelley's case; namely, that "heirs of the body, or other inheritable words, after an estate for life, shall operate as words of limitation, not of purchase", chiefly with a view to the application of that rule to last wills / by the editor.