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Grundsatze des Teutschen Peinlichen Rechts [Bound With] Abhandlung.

Quistorp, Johann Christian von; Risi, Paolo Enlightened Penology in Eighteenth-Century Germany Quistorp, Johann Christian von [1737-1795]. Grundsatze des Teutschen Peinlichen Rechts. Rostock and Leipzig: In der Koppischen Buchhandlung, 1770. [xvi], 1087 pp. [Bound with] Risi, Paolo. Abhandlungen Uber Einige Gegenstande des Peinlichen Rechts. Jelgawa and Leipzig: Bey Steideln und Compagnie, 1771. [xvi], [17]-136 pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary marbled boards, hand lettered title label to spine, edges rouged. Light soiling, notable rubbing with wear to board edges and spine ends, a few creases to spine, scuff to title label, corners bumped. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places near front and rear of text block, marks and brief annotations to a few leaves in each title. $1,500. * Quistorp: first edition; Risi: only German edition. This volume contains two works that illustrate the early reception of Enlightenment ideas on criminology in Germany. Quistorp, a professor of law at the University or Rostock and later Rector of the University of Butzow, was an authority on criminal law. Grundsatze, his principal work, is a general treatise. Likely influenced by Beccaria's Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (1764), it advocated a reduction of capital offenses and the abolition of torture to obtain confessions. It went through several editions and issues, the last one in 1828, and was one of the sources of the influential German Penal Code of 1871. Risi was a judge in Milan and one of Beccaria's associates. The work of an anonymous translator, Abhandlung is a translation of Risi's Animadversiones ad Criminalem Jurisprudentiam (1766), a practical treatise on criminal procedure that incorporated principles drawn from Dei Delitti e Delle Pene. Both titles are scarce. OCLC locates no copies of Abhandlung or the first edition of Grundsatze in North America. Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts 11017252, 11925930.
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Institutionum Libri Quatuor

Institutionum Libri Quatuor, Additi sunt Tituli Digestor, De Verborum

Justinian. Annotated Copy Leiden: Daniel A Gaespeeck, 1678. A Handsome Large-Paper Pocket Edition With Contemporary Annotations Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Institutionum Libri Quatuor. Additi sunt Tituli Digestor, De Verborum Significatione et Regulis Juris. Leiden: Apud D. a Gaesbeeck, 1678. [xvi], 318, [22] pp. Main title page preceded by copperplate allegorical title page. Octavo (5-1/4" x 3-1/4," text 3-1/2" x 1/3/4"). Contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt rules with corner fleurons to boards, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, gilt tooling to board edges, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Tiny hole to front, corners lightly bumped with negligible wear. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in places, light soiling to title page, annotations in a small contemporary hand to a few leaves, some affected slightly by trimming. A notably handsome copy of an unusual imprint. $2,850. * Commissioned by the Emperor Justinian in 530 CE, the body of writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis restated all existing Roman law. It has four components: the Code, Novels, Institutes and Digest. Intended for students, the Institutes is a synopsis of the reformed legal system. Rediscovered during the late Middle Ages, it became the standard guide to Roman law for generations. Our pocket edition was printed for Gaesbeeck by Daniel Elzevier, who also produced an even-smaller version with conventional margins. The large-paper format was intended to facilitate note-taking. It is a handsome volume; Rahir praises the high quality of its typography. The added title page is also remarkable for its high artistic quality and inclusion of a stereotypical native North-American, along with a stereotypical Turk, among the members of Justinian's court. The annotations, though limited to a few passages, are quite extensive and detailed. Rahir, Catalogue D'Une Collection Unique de Volumes Imprimes Par Les Elzevier 2634. Universal Short-Title Catalogue 1814301.
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Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada

Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, 1973-1990

Guth, DeLloyd J. Guth, DeLloyd J. Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, 1973-1990. Winnipeg: Canadian Legal History Project, 1998. xxxix, 357 pp. Hardcover. Lightly worn and soiled. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean. $35. * Contents: Preface; Foreword, Antonio Lamer; Introduction, DeLlyod J. Guth; About Brian, Bill and Me: Regina Collegiate, M.A. MacPherson; Treasured Memories: Law, Love and War, Clarence Shepard; Before the Bench: Brian Dickson as a Corporate Lawyer, Robert Yalden; Trial Judge: the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, 1963-1967, George E. Tritschler; A Mirror for Modern Magistrates, Samuel Freedman; Reflections on an Independent Judiciary, William Lederman; An Autobiographical Memoir upon Arrival in Ottawa, Brian Dickson with R. Rees Brock; Le Juge Dickson et le Droit Constitutionnel, Ge'rald-A. Beaudoin; Shaping Section 1 of the Charter, Peter W. Hogg; Dickson's Images and Interpretation of a "Free and Democratic Society", Andre'e Lajoie; The Social Values of Justice, Colleen Sheppard; The Political Theology of Chief Justice Dickson; Rights and Community in Dickson's Jurisprudence, Joel Bakan; The Dickson Impact on Aboriginal Rights, Geoffrey S. Lester; Dickson and the Environment, Dale Gibson; Dickson's Style and Sources, Katherine Swinton; The Doctrine of Stare Decisis, Robert J. Sharpe; Trusting the Laity: Adjudicators and Jurors, Thomson Irvine; Dickson on Evidence, A.F. Sheppard; The Law of Police Powers, Stanley A. Cohen; Cops and Cons: Penal and Police Administrative Laws, Peter M. German; Le Juge Dickson et le Controle Judiciaire des Tribunaux Administratifs, Suzanne Comtois; The Dickson Approach to Liability in Tort, John P.S. McLaren; The Media and the Court's Public Accountability, Peter Calamai; Defining the Canadian Judicial Council, Nathan T. Nemetz; The Chief Justice as Court Administrator, 1984-1990, Carl Baar; Securing Canada's Judicial Heritage, Brian Dickson with De Lloyd J. Guth; Judgments Written at the Supreme Court of Canada 1974-1990, by the Rt. Hon. R.G. Brian Dickson, Compiled by Deborah Melanson and Edited by DeLloyd J. Guth.
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Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and.

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and.

Shoemaker, Robert Brink Shoemaker, Robert Brink. Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725. Cambridge, [UK]: Cambridge University Press, [1991]. xviii, 351 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $50. * Contents: pt. I. Background: 1. Introduction. Misdemeanors and Society in Preindustrial England; The Contexts: City and Country in Middlesex, 1660-1725; The Contours of this Study; 2. Options for Prosecution. Informal Mediation by Justices; Recognizances; Indictments; The Relationship between Recognizances and Indictments; Summary Conviction; Flexibility in the Choice of a Procedure; 3. Patterns of Prosecutions. The Choice of a Procedure; Types of Crime; Year-to-Year Fluctuations; pt. II. Procedures for Prosecution: 4. Informal Mediation by Justices of the Peace. Types of Settlements; Limits of Mediation; Informal Mediation in an Urban Setting; 5. Binding over by Recognizance. Offences; Informal Settlements; Unsuccessful Recognizances; Other Limitations; 6. Indictment at Quarter Sessions. Offences; Dropped Prosecutions; Obstacles to Prosecution; Verdicts; Punishments; 7. Houses of Correction. "Loose, Idle and Disorderly": Offences Punished in Houses of Correction; Summary Justice?; Punishments; Limitations; pt. III. The Contexts of Misdemeanor Prosecutions: 8. The Participants: Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Justices of the Peace. Social Status; Gender; Official Plaintiffs; Justices of the Peace; 9. The Reformation of Manners Campaign. Strategies for Prosecution; Judicial Attitudes to the Campaign; 10. Geographical Contexts. Explaining the Geographical Distribution of Prosecutions; Urban-Rural Differences; London: "an Aggregate of Various Nations"; 11. Conclusion: Law and Society in Preindustrial England.
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The Law of Baron and Femme; Of Parent and Child; Of Guardian and Ward

First Edition of Reeve's Baron and Femme in an Attractive Contemporary Binding Reeve, Tapping [1744-1823]. The Law of Baron and Femme; Of Parent and Child; Of Guardian and Ward; Of Master and Servant; And of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the Terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body. New Haven: Printed by Oliver Steele, 1816. [iv], 494, [11] pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine. A few minor spots and nicks to boards, two faint early owner signatures ("McMichael" and "W.W. Thomas, 1832") to front board, faint creases and very faint illegible lettering to spine, front joint starting, corners bumped, front hinge starting rear hinge cracked. Owner inscription (by McMichael) and another early owner inscription in pencil ("Oliver") to front free endpaper, light browning and light foxing to interior, underlining and check marks in an early hand to a few leaves. $500. * First edition. The first American treatise on family law, Reeve's Law of Baron and Femme is a restatement of Blackstone's Commentaries, Book I, Chapters XIV-XVII. It rejects some of the fundamental doctrines of the common law, most notably coverture. As Blackstone puts it, "the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage." Reeve says the opposite. A prescriptive work, Baron and Femme aimed to liberalize the American law of domestic relations, arguing, for example, that married women were permitted to make wills, a point contradicted by the contemporary statute and case law of Connecticut and several other states. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 4745.
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Jus Gentium. Journal of International Legal History. Vol 9, No 1. 2024

Jus Gentium. Journal of International Legal History. William E. Butler, Editor. Talbot Publishing, 2024. Volume 9, No. 1. January 2024. 322 pp. Paperback. $50. * JUS GENTIUM Journal of International Legal History is the first dedicated journal in the United States addressing the history of international law. Much current scholarship on the history of international law is preoccupied not with international law, but with international legal doctrine; the doctrinal writings of remarkably few individuals dominate the discourse while the rest remain unseen or overlooked. This journal will encourage further exploration in the archives, for new materials and confirmation of the accuracy of past uses, and welcomes the continued reassessment of international legal history in all of its dimensions. Vol. 9, No. 1 | January 2024. ARTICLES: "Swell, This Fugitive Forger": The Case of Jacques Licco Adutt Reagan Elizabeth Whittington. Judah P. Benjamin and the Pursuit of Confederate Assets Abroad John D. Gordan III Baron S. A. Korf (1876-1924): A Centenary Commemoration William E. Butler; Vitalii S. Ivanenko Li Shuangyuan and the Development of Private International Law in China. Zhang Yue. NOTES A Grotius Census: An Appeal Note on a 1631 Grotius: A Census Emendation William E. Butler DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE International Arbitration and the Peace Conference at The Hague F. de Martens A Brief Calendar of State Practice for Shandong: 1897-1924. Part Eight (1919): Parting of the Ways P. Macalister-Smith; J. Schwietzke REVIEWS Thomas W. Zeiler, Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free-Trade Internationalism (2022). Mark Weston Janis Jenny Benham, International Law in Europe, 700-1200 (2022) William E. Butler IN MEMORIAM Volodymyr Naumovych Denysov (1937-2023) William E. Butler;Oleksiy V. Kresin FROM THE LITERATURE.