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Abby Smith and her cows : with a report of the law case decided contrary to law / by Julia E. Smith.
by Smith, Julia E., 1792-1886. (1877)
An account of Governor Wall's escape in 1784, &c / Governor Joseph Wall.
by Wall, Governor Joseph, d1802. ([18--])
An account of the arguments of counsel, and the directions of the court, on a plea of auterfois acquit : pleaded by James Foy at the Summer Assizes 1786, holden for the county of Mayo at Ballinrobe, on the fifth day of June : to an indictment for procuring, stirring, and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig and others, to slee and murder Patrick Randal M'Donnell, Esquire and Charles Hipson, with the pleadings in that case
by Foy, James. (1786)
An account of the imprisonment and sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge : who while peaceably and quietly and rationally in possession of his own house, was seized and detained in the McLean Asylum for the Insane, at Charlestown, Mass., 65 days, from
by Fuller, Robert, b. 1795? (1833)
An account of the life and transactions of William Gadesby : from the age of seventeen to twenty-eight, when he was brought to trial ... and received sentence of death ... / written by himself, when in prison ; to which is added, an appendix, concerning his confession of having robbed the Dundee bank, the whole containing a narrative of the most extraordinary and unexampled depravity ...
by Gadesby, William, 1762 or 3-1791. (1791)
Account of the short life and ignominious death of Stephen Merrill Clark : who was executed at Salem on Thursday the tenth day of May, 1821, at the early age of 16 years and 9 months, for the crime of arson.
by Unknown Author (1821)
An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh. On the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition.
by Muir, Thomas, 1765-1798, defendant. (1793)
An accurate account of the trial of William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten of Polstead, in Suffolk ...
by Corder, William, 1803-1828. (1828)
Achilli vs. Newman : a full report of the most extraordinary trial for seduction and adultery charged against Dr. Achilli, the apostate Catholic priest, by the celebrated Dr. Newman, the Oxford Puseyite, both of whom are seceders from their former creeds.
by Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890. ([1852?])
An alarme for sinners : containing the confession, prayers, letters, and last words of Robert Foulkes ... [executed for murder] with an account of his life ...
by Foulkes, Robert, d. 1679. (1679)
The alleged malpractice suit of Walsh vs. Sayre.
by Unknown Author (1870)
The Allen trials; namely, Allen versus Hunter, Warner v. Griffen, Jobson v. Allen and Jobson against Sickles (Impending) with instructions, and the various scientific recipes, (European and American) for making ""continuous gum"", without either patent or risk of infringement, and an appendix, illustrative of Mr. Daniel E. Sickles's professional morality / David Wemyss Jobson.
by Jobson, David Wemyss. (1857)
The American Tract Society, at Boston, and The American Tract Society, at New York : on a decree to interplead ; The American Tract Society vs. Alexander Dewitt, adm'r, etc. : the testimony of the American Tract Society, at Boston, in said cases.
by Unknown Author ([1862?])
An analytical statement of the case of Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Dovan ... : containing an explanation of his official dignities and peculiar territorial rights and privileges in the British colonies of Nova Scotia and Canada, &c. &c. and also shewing the descent of the Stirling peerage honours, supported by legal evidence, and the law and usage of Scotland, appertaining thereto ... / By Thomas C. Banks ...
by Banks, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1765-1854. (1832)
An appeal, by the Reverend Washington Van Zandt, late rector of Grace church, Rochester.
by Van Zandt, Washington. (1843)
Appel du jugement de la première chambre du Tribunal de première instance de la Seine, du 15 fevrier 1861 : M. Jérôme-Napolèon Bonaparte et Mme Élisabeth Patterson contre S. A. I. le Prince Napolèon.
by Bonaparte, Jérôme Napolèon, 1805-1870. ([1861?])
Argument for plaintiff, in case of Thomas Hicks, ex'r. of Capt. Isaac Hicks, versus The United States, for half-pay, under the resolve of October 21, 1780. Also, in behalf of the half pay debts due to the officers of the revolution generally, embracing the laws and descisions in support of same.
by Hicks, Isaac, d. 1817. (1859)
An authentic account of the proceedings under a writ of enquiry of damages in an action in the court of King's Bench, in which the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin was plaintiff, and William [i.e. Robert] Ferguson, Esq. defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife : executed before the sheriff of Middlesex and a special jury on the 22d of December, 1807 ...
by Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1766-1841. (1808)
An authentic and irrefutable statement of Mrs. Sinclair Sutherland's unfortunate intimacy with Mr. Whichcote Turner, involving a narrative both interesting and distressing.
by Sutherland, Lucy Sinclair. ([1810?])
An authentic life of John C. Colt : now imprisoned for killing Samuel Adams, in New York, on the seventeenth of September, 1841.
by Unknown Author (1842)
An authentic life of John C. Colt : now imprisoned for killing Samuel Adams, in New York, on the seventeenth of September, 1841.
by Colt, John Caldwell, 1810-1842. (1842)
Argument of Benj. F. Butler, before the Rhode Island Supreme Court, (sitting in equity) Justices Potter, Stiness, and Tillinghast, Sept. 28, 1881. : In cases Quidnick co. vs. Chafee, et als., Same vs. Same, Chafee, trustee, et als., vs. A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Co., et als.
by Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893. (1881)
Argument of Franklin B. Gowen, Esq. : before the Joint Committee of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, appointed to inquire into the affairs of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 29th and 30th, 1875, on behalf of said Company / specially reported by D.F. Murphy.
by Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1836-1889. (1875)
Argument of George Ticknor Curtis and S.D. Law in the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York : Before his honor, Justice Nelson, on behalf of the dentists as to their right to use hard rubber vulcanite in the manufacture of bases for artificial teeth, in the suits of H.B. Goodyear, et al., vs. Thomas G. Wait.
by Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. (1867)
Argument of Henry A. Cram : against the so-called "Freedom of worship bill" before the Committee of cities of the Assembly, on the 14th & 21st of April, 1885.
by Cram, Henry A. (1885)
Argument of Hon. Edwards Pierrepont to the jury, on the trial of John H. Surratt for the murder of President Lincoln.
by Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892. (1867)
Argument of John K. Porter on the trial at Albany of William Landon, acquitted July 21, 1855, on a charge of violating the prohibitory law.
by Porter, John K. (John Kilham), 1819-1892. (1855)
Argument of John W. Edmonds before the Surrogate of New York, November 1857: In the matter of the probate of Henry Parish's will on the subject of implied revocation of a will. Reported by Roberts & Warburton, Law reporters ...
by Edmonds, John W. (John Worth), 1799-1874. (1857)
The argument of Peter Y. Cutler, Esq., before the Street Committee of the Board of Aldermen of the city of New-York : delivered March 1st, 1854, in the matter of extending Albany Street to Broadway, through Trinity Church Yard
by Cutler, Peter Y. (1854)
Argument of Philip R. Fendall, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the trial of George A. Gardiner in the Criminal Court, D. C., March term, 1853, for false swearing / taken in shorthand by John J. McElhone ; to which is added an appendix, containing letters, &c., of George A. Gardiner to Don A. Quiros and others, letters of John Charles Gardiner to Don Manuel Verastegui and others, and other documents.
by Fendall, Philip Ricard, 1794-1868. (1853)
The argument of William Curtis Noyes, Esq., before the Street committee of the board of Aldermen of the city of New York ... in the matter of extending Albany Street to Broadway / Reported by James Thomas Roberts, (Reporter to the New York Daily Times).
by Noyes, William Curtis, 1805-1864. (1854)
Argument of William H. Seward, in defence of Abel F. Fitch and others : under an indictment for arson, delivered at Detroit, on the 12th, 13th and 15th days of September, 1851 / phonographically reported by T.C. Leland.
by Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872. (1851)
Argument on trial of F.A. Tallmadge, before Board of Commissioners of Police; reported by P.H. Carey.
by Noyes, William Curtis, 1805-1864. (1858)
Arguments of Hiram P. Hastings in the case of Oakley vs. Aspinwall, in the Superior court, upon the effect of the reversal of the judgment by the court of appeals / Hiram P. Hastings.
by Hasting, Hiram P. (1852)
The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason, in conspiring the death of the King, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government. Before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, lord chief justice of the Court of Common-Pleas...
by Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681, defendant. (1681)
An authentic account of the proceedings under a writ of enquiry of damages in an action in the court of King's Bench, in which the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin was plaintiff, and William [i.e. Robert] Ferguson, Esq. defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife : executed before the sheriff of Middlesex and a special jury on the 22d of December, 1807 ...
by Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1766-1841. (1808)
An authentic and irrefutable statement of Mrs. Sinclair Sutherland's unfortunate intimacy with Mr. Whichcote Turner, involving a narrative both interesting and distressing.
by Sutherland, Lucy Sinclair. ([1810?])
The authentic confession of Jesse Strang, executed at Albany, Friday, August 24, 1827, for the murder of John Whipple : as made to the Rev. Mr. Lacey, rector of St. Peter's Church, Albany ...
by Strang, Jesse, 1797-1827. (1827)
An authentic life of John C. Colt : now imprisoned for killing Samuel Adams, in New York, on the seventeenth of September, 1841.
by Unknown Author (1842)
An authentic life of John C. Colt : now imprisoned for killing Samuel Adams, in New York, on the seventeenth of September, 1841.
by Colt, John Caldwell, 1810-1842. (1842)
The battles of "Gravelly Run", "Dinwiddie Court-house", and "Five Forks", Va., 1865. Argument on behalf of Lieut Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A., respondent , by Asa Bird Gardner L.L.D., judge - advocate, U.S.A., of council before the court of inquiry convened by the President of the United States, (S.O. 277, ex. 6, Army hd. qrs., A.G.O., 9 Dec. 1879,) in the case of Lieut. Col. and Bvt. Major-General Gouverneur K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, formerly Major-General commanding the 5th Army Corps, applicant. Delivered July 27th, 28th, and 30th, 1881.
by Gardiner, Asa Bird, 1839-1919. (1881)
The Beecher trial : a review of the evidence ; reprinted from the New York Times of July 3, 1875 ; with some revisions and additions.
by Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887. (1875)
Blake v. Pilfold : base conspiracy of witnesses, infamous proceedings of the Post Office, Duke of Richmond, impeachment of Judge Taunton.
by Stracy, John Steward. (1833)
Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns containing the report of the Faneuil hall meeting ; the murder of Batchelder ; Theodore Parker's lesson for the day ; speeches of counsel on both sides, corrected by themselves ; a verbatim report of Judge Lorng's decision, and detailed account of the embarkation.
by Unknown Author (1854)
Bribery and piracy : wilful and malicious loss of the steamship Shooting Star : fraud unparalelled ... .
by Hall, William M. (1870)
A brief account of the trial of William Orr of Farranshane in the county of Antrim to which are annexed several interesting facts and authentic documents connected therewith.
by Unknown Author (1797)
A brief sketch of the life of Horace Carter, : who was executed in Worcester, Dec. 7, 1825: for the crime of rape. : Together with remarks on early education.
by Carter, Horace, 1799-1825. (1825)
The business man's assistant : being an improved edition of the "Business guide and legal companion," containing useful forms of legal instruments: enlarged by the addition of forms of acknowledgments, agreements, assignments, awards, bonds, leases, mortgages, and legal opinions, found in no other work : Adapted to the wants of business men throughout the United States / By an attorney ; To which is added tables: of interest--of U.S. Custom House value of foreign currencies--and of all the gold and silver coins in circulation
by Butts, I. R. (Isaac Ridler), 1795-1882. (1847)
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