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Attractive Brattleboro Imprint of Jones on Bailments Jones, Sir William [1746-1794]. Balmanno, John, Introduction, Notes. An Essay on the Law of Bailments. With Introductory Remarks, and Notes, Comprising the Most Modern Authorities. Brattleboro, VT: Printed by William Fessenden, 1813. [12], 144, xxi pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary sheep, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and scuffing, small earlry shelf label (?) to lower inside corner of rear board, moderate rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, offsetting to preliminaries, final leaves of text and rear endleaves, early owner signature (of Charles H. Stephens) to front free endpaper and head of title page. An attractive copy. $125. * Later American edition, a reprint of the London edition, 1798. "Lord Holt, in Coggs v. Bernard, introduced from the Roman law a substratum, upon which the English Law of Bailments chiefly reposes, and Sir William Jones further developed this interesting department of jurisprudence, in his Essay, which has ever been admired for its artistic and scholar-like finish" (Marvin). Sir William Jones was a distinguished scholar of Indo-European languages and a brilliant jurist. A friend of Johnson, Gibbon and Burke, he was a judge of the High Court at Calcutta from 1783 until his death. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 428-429. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2423. Seller Inventory # 79142
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Title: An Essay on the Law of Bailments. ...
Publication Date: 1813
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