Readings on statutes, chiefly those, affecting the administration of public justice, in criminal and civil cases; passed in the reign of His late Majesty, King George the second. Containing the Occasion of the Rise, and the Progress of the Bills, through both Houses of Parliament, to their receiving legislative Sanction; and also the Decisions of Courts of Justice thereon, explaining the most obscure and difficult Points, in the Statute Law. Taken and extracted principally, from Records, Acts of Parliament, Appeals, Debates, Speeches, Arguments, Votes, Protests, Orders, Rules, Trials, Journals, Reports, Histories, and other parliamentary and judicial Treatises, Commentaries, and Proceedings, relative to the Law and Constitution, Mss. as well as printed. The whole chronologically digested, and illustrated with notes , References, and Observations. Likewise, 1. An Address to the honourable Society of the Inner Temple. 2. A prefatory introduction, in Explanation of the Plan, and Execution of t

People / Organizations

• John Rayner of the Inner Temple (Author)

Imprint

London : sold for the author, by J. Browne, in Wardrobe-Court, Doctors Commons; and R. Shaw and J. Whitaker, Mitre-Court, Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]

Publication year

1775

ESTC No.

T94809

Grub Street ID

314337

Description

[6],vi,xxvi,[24],238p. ; 4°.

Note

Price from imprint: price Nine Shillings, in Boards.