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Author:: Erskine, Thomas
Title:: Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
Publisher:: Annual Register, London, 1798.
Description:: A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
Condition:: Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
Book No.:: W-80391
Price:: $ 250.00
Category:: English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta

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Title:: Trial of Mrs. Ann Nisbett, Wife of Walter Nisbett, Esq; of Grafton Street, Berkeley Square . . . For committing Adultery with Thomas Totty, Esq; (A Captain in the Navy, and Commander of the Majesty's Ship the Sphynx) At Doctors Commons
Publisher:: Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], London, 1783.
Description:: A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857
Condition:: Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence
Book No.:: W-80431
Price:: $ 750.00
Category:: adultery, Parliament, divorce, marriage, trials

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