The Crown Circuit Companion; Containing the Practice of the Assises on the Crown Side, and of the Courts of General and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace.
W. Stubbs; G. Talmash
Published by Henry Lintot, London, 1749
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The first volume of this informative guide to the Crown Circuit, or Crown Court, from the eighteenth century, including the practice of the courts of assize. The second edition. Volume I only of a two-volume set. Bound in full calf. First published in 1738, this important work became a standard legal handbook for decades, with the tenth and final edition being published in 1836. Written by William Stubbs and George Talmash, this informative guide details numerous legal practices, including the assizes, the crown law and the general courts, with useful and modern precedents of indictments in criminal cases. All information references the printed authorities. With useful information the happenings of a courtroom, with many precedents of different criminal convictions, including '"for keeping an Ale-house, without licence", for "driving a cart against a charriot, and breaking the back of one of the horses", "for uttering a counterfeit sixpence" and many others. Bound in full calf. Externally, very good, with light rubbing to joints and the odd mark to leather. Front hinge is slightly strained, but holding firm. Endpapers have been retained. No half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 926Q24
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Title: The Crown Circuit Companion; Containing the ...
Publisher: Henry Lintot, London
Publication Date: 1749
Binding: Leather
Illustrator: None
Condition: Very Good
Book Type: book
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Henry Lintot for J. Worrall, London, 1749
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Seller: Zetetic Books, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], ii-viii, 318pp; Volume Two - [10], 319-406, 433-633pp, [31]. Contemporary calf, raised bands, spines in six panels, indistinct paper label to first panels. Worn to extremities with small amounts of loss to leather. Lightly browned internally, small worm track to top margin of second volume, very gradually becoming larger towards the end of the book, catching a couple of letters here and there, but without any real loss of sense. 'The Clerk of Assise's Circuit Companion' has a separate dated title page on 2Q5r; pagination and register are continuous. The gap in pagination is not noted in ESTC, but it seems to be complete, the catchword is correct, and it corresponds with the example in ECCO. First published in 1738/9. Maxwell and Maxwell, page 360; with nine locations in ESTC Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 004112
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