The Code of Hammurabi. By Percy Hancock, M.A. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920. —A translation with very short introduction.
The Interpreter: Or Booke Containing the Signification of Words: Wherein is set foorth the true meaning of all, or the most part of such Words and Termes, as are mentioned in the Lawe Writers, or Statutes of this victorious and renowned Kingdome, requiring any Exposition or Interpretation. Collected by Iohn Cowell. Cambridge: Printed by Iohn Legate, 1605.
Un Livre des Entries: Contenant auxi un Report des Resolutions del Court sur diverse Exceptions prises as Pleadings, et sur auters Matters en Ley. Par Sir Edward Lutwyche, Chivaler, Nadgares un des Justices del Bank. London, 1704. —A treasury of Law French, the tone of which may be inferred from the title. Printed in fine blackletter type. This copy belonged to President John Adams.
The Law-French Dictionary alphabetically digested; very useful for all young students in the Common Laws of England. To which is added, The Law-Latin Dictionary. London, 1718.
Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight books. Written in Latin by the Baron Pufendorf, Counsellor of State to his late Swedish Majesty, and to the late King of Prussia. Done into English by Basil Kennettt, D.D.. Fourth edition. London, 1729.
The
New Clerk’s Magazine; containing all
the most useful forms, which occur in business
transactions between man and man. Comprising many
valuable forms not before given in any one
collection. Calculated for the use of the citizens
of the United States, and made conformable to law.
By a Member of the Massachusetts Bar. Boston: Lilly,
Wait, and Company, 1833.
In the nineteenth century and before, sensational trials often produced what our modern publishing industry would call “instant paperbacks,” short books cheaply printed and filled with the most lurid details of the crimes. Historical novelists will find a wealth of material in them. We have arranged them chronologically.
Trial of Henry Phillips for the Murder of Gaspard Dennegri. January 2, 1817. Printed by Thomas G. Bangs, No. 7, State-Street.
The Trial of Henry Hunt, Esq., [et al.], for an alledged conspiracy to overturn the government, &c., before Mr. Justice Bayley, and a Special Jury, at the York Lent Assizes, 1820.
The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns. Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854.
The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley Poisonings. London: Henry Lea, 1856.
The Trial of James H. Johnson, at the March term, 1859, of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Va., charged with the poisoning of his wife, by administering to her Strychnia. Together with a short biography of the criminal, the evidence adduced at the trial, his liaison with his wife’s niece—the murder of their offspring, the letters of his paramour, and the medical evidence adduced on the occasion, including that of Prof. R. E. Rogers, of the University of Pennsylvania. Also, an account of the execution. By a member of the Rappahannock bar. [No publisher noted.]
The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the shorthand reports. Paris: Privately Printed, 1906.