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1615600611615. four titles in 1 book. 1615-1618. four titles in 1 book. 1615-1618. Four Scarce Coutumiers from Northern France France; Customary Law. Coustumes Du Bailliage De Vermandois en la Cite Ville Baillieue & Prevoste Foraine de Laon. Reims: Chez Simon De Foigny 1616. iv 108 4 ff. Bound with Coustumes de la Cite & Ville de Reims Villes & Villages Regis Selon Icelles. Reims: Chez Simon de Foigny 1615. 61 3 ff. And Coustumes de Chaalons & Ressort Du Siege Dudit Lieu En Ce Qui Est du Bailliage de Vermandois. Reims: Chez Simon de Foigny 1615. 33 1 ff. And Les Coustumes du Bailliage de Vitry en Pertois. Reims: Chez Simon & Iean de Foigny Imprimeurs 1618. 40 2 ff. Quarto 9" x 6"; 22.9 x 15.2 cm. Contemporary calf gilt rules to boards raised bands gilt ornaments and title "Coustume De Verman" to spine faint hand-lettered title to head of text block. Light rubbing and staining to boards extremities bumped and rubbed with some loss to spine ends and corners a few small pieces lacking from edges front hinge starting fragment of early bookplate to front pastedown. Light toning minor foxing to top margins light soiling to title pages small strips cut from bottom margins of two leaves of Laon for bookmarks no loss of text faint dampstaining in a few places minor tears and chips to margins of a few leaves early owner signatures most struck through one of "Lescarbotte" to first title page internally clean. A unique volume in very good condition. $2500. This collection represents a significant compendium of regional customary laws coutumes governing the vital territories of Picardy and the Ile-de-France during the Early Modern period.The primary work in this volume the Vermandois coutume served as the legal backbone for a vast jurisdiction. Composed in 1448 and undergoing a major revision in 1556 it governed lands that held immense religious and political prestige-specifically four of the six French ecclesiastical peerages: The Archbishopric of Reims and the Bishoprics of Laon Chalons and Noyon. The accompanying texts provide specific legal frameworks for the surrounding regions several of which mark significant printing milestones. Reims: Formulated in 1481 to govern jurisdictions outside of direct ecclesiastical control this 1615 edition represents its first app. unknown
16811278921681. ENGLISH LAW. Proceedings Upon Impeachments from the year 1666 to the year 1681. Manuscript. No place circa 1681. Quarto modern full brown calf raised bands red morocco spine label. $3200.Original manuscript from the late 17th century with the parliamentary impeachment proceedings against 14 individuals during the reign of Charles II.The accountswritten in legible script with an index at frontbegin with the proceedings against Viscount Mordaunt charged with raping the daughter of the surveyor of Windsor Castle when Mordaunt was the castle's constable. Although they include a number of cases including that of William Penn in 1668 the clear focus is on the Popish plot a supposed conspiracy promulgated in 1678 that led to the arrest and trial of five Catholic lordsBaron Arundell the Marquess of Powis Baron Belasyse Baron Petre and Viscount Staffordall of which are recounted in this manuscript. As anticatholic hysteria waned and it became increasingly clear that the ""plot"" was a fiction the fallout entrapped more of the players: the impeachment of William Scroggs who served as the Chief Justice during the trials is detailed as is that of the Lord High Treasurer the Earl of Danby who was charged with concealing the plot and Edward Fitzharris who had attempted to implicate Danby in Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's murder in 1678 an event which fanned the flames of anticatholic hysteria. Armorial bookplates; inkstamp of the Grotius Society.Spine toned; text clean. hardcover
1700176470London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires for John Walthoe 1700. The first English treatise devoted exclusively to family law First edition in an exceptionally well-preserved binding of this oft-cited work on the legal position of women in 17th- and 18th-century England and a key summary of the social mechanisms underpinning such works as The Taming of the Shrew. "Baron and Feme" refers to the legal fiction that husband and wife shared one legal personhood. The anonymous author of this treatise draws heavily on Sir Edward Coke's edition of Littleton aiming to codify and explain family law "in all the Circumstances of Life from the Solemnization of Marriage to the Divorce" p. vi. "Although written in English at a time when many law books were still published in Latin and law French it was clearly intended for a legally trained reader" Glover p. 75. This copy includes extensive ink annotations in an 18th-century hand suggesting a similar level of legal training. The annotations mainly cite other legal reference works but they also explicate several points of law and invoke others to challenge assertions in the text. The notes on the rear blank verso for instance observe that "the Wife's Portion consisting of Choses in action shall not upon ye husb's death be liable to his debts tho' ye husb: before marriage had made an adequate Jointure on her". Further editions appeared in 1719 and 1738. Octavo 192 x 115 mm pp. xxxii 380 misprinting pp. 178-9 182-3 186-7 and 190-1 as 162-3 166-7 170-1 and 174-5 36. Contemporary calf spine ruled in black and lettered in black manuscript covers with double fillet in black. Housed in custom green morocco book-form case. With 18th-century ink annotations and infrequent underlining to contents and rear blank verso. One corner just worn at tip infrequent brown marks to several pages contents otherwise bright and fresh: a fine copy. ESTC R6177; Wing B899. Susan Glover Engendering Legitimacy: Law Property and Early Eighteenth-century Fiction 2006. unknown
