The Qualifications and the Duties of a Good and Complete Judge. . . . Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Walter S. Johnson.

English translation of De iuris Arte libellus (1st ed., Lyon: Antoine Vincent, 1560). Charles B. Sears's copy, with his signature dated Autumn 1934. cix, 138 pp. Original cloth. Spine somewhat rubbed and discolored, else Very Good. Charles Brown Sears 'was an American lawyer and politician from New York. . . . In 1917, he was appointed by Governor Charles S. Whitman a justice of the New York Supreme Court to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected in November 1917, and 1931. From 1922 on, he sat on the Appellate Division (Fourth Dept.), and was presiding justice from 1927 on. In 1934, he ran on the Republican ticket for the New York Court of Appeals but was defeated by Democrat Edward R. Finch. . . . In January 1940, he was appointed by Governor Herbert H. Lehman to the Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Irving Lehman as Chief Judge. He retired from the bench at the end of 1940 when the appointment expired and he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years, thus being barred from seeking re-election. He then served as an official referee of the court. . . . In 1947, he was the Presiding Judge of Military Tribunal IV during the Flick Trial in Nuremberg, Germany. . . . When the Law School of the University [of Buffalo] moved in 1973 to its new building, O'Brian Hall on the North Campus, the law library was named in honor of Charles B. Sears' (Wikipedia). 'The Administration of Justice in Mediaeval France' is printed only on the half-title. Gaunt of Holmes Beach, Fla. reprinted this book in 1970. [a.c.]. …