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A treatise upon the law of mortgages. By John Joseph Powell, Esq. of the Middle Temple, barrister at law. The third edition, revised and corrected by the author.
by Powell, John Joseph (1755?-1801)
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About This Item
Dublin: Dublin: printed by E. Lynch, Law-Bookseller to his Majesty's Courts of Law, in Ireland, at her Shops no. 6, Skinner-Row, and in the Four-Courts. M.DCC.XCI. [1791], 1791. Leather. Very Good. Description: 8vo (8½ × 5½ in): xvi, 558, [2] p. (the last leaf bookseller's ads). Contemporary calf. · Register: 8º: A-N^8. · Condition: Joints cracked, leather on spine skilfully patched at some early date; sheets 2G-K toned, affecting a few leaves in the adjacent gatherings. · Comments: Sole Dublin edition, a reprint of the second London edition of 1787; the first edition was published in 1785. Powell was a student of Charles Fearne, author of a celebrated treatise on contingent remainders. Powell dedicated his book on mortgages, his first, to Fearne. Powell also published three more well-regarded treatises, on powers (1787), devises (1788), and contracts (1790). · References: ESTC Johnson 161 (2 copies); Bridgman 258; S&M 257(19); Holdsworth, HEL 12:382, 429; N14047.
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- Nostre Livers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000057
- Title
- A treatise upon the law of mortgages. By John Joseph Powell, Esq. of the Middle Temple, barrister at law. The third edition, revised and corrected by the author.
- Author
- Powell, John Joseph (1755?-1801)
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dublin: printed by E. Lynch, Law-Bookseller to his Majesty's Courts of Law, in Ireland, at her Shops no. 6, Skinner-Row, and
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1791
- Pages
- 558
- Keywords
- Property, Trial Practice, Civil Procedure, Legal History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Practice Manuals; Johnson Imported Law Treatises; Property & Tenures;
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Nostre Livers
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About Nostre Livers
Specializing in antiquarian Anglo-American law and legal history. "Nostre livers": "our books (usu. meaning year books)."--J.H. Baker, Manual of Law French, p. 141, s.v. "livers" (1990).
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