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• A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing. Shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other. With sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. By (a well-willer to both) William Somner. (London : printed by R. and W. Leybourn for the authour, and are to be sold by John Crooke at the Ship, and Daniel White at the Seven Stars in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660), by William Somner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing : Shewing the true etynologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other. With sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. (Printed by R. And W. Leybourn, for the authour, and are to be sold by John Crooke, and Daniel White, 1660), by William Somner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law of Kent, or, The customs of gavelkind : with the decisions concerning borough-English (Henry Igglesden, 1858), by Thomas Robinson and J. D. Norwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing : shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other : with sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome (Printed for F. Gyles, J. Woodman and D. Lyon, and C. Davis, 1726), by William Sommer and White Kennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common law of Kent (Butterworth & Co., 1897), by Thomas Robinson, Sir Frederick Pollock, Herbert J. H. Mackay, and Charles Isaac Elton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of gavel-kind with the etymology thereof : containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Brytains, notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans : with some observations and remarks upon many especial occurrences of British and English history / by Silas Taylor ; to which is added a short history of William the Conqueror written in Latin by an anonymous author in the time of Henry the first. (London : Printed for John Starkey ..., 1663), by Silas Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Consuetudines Kanciae. (J.R. Smith, 1851), by Charles Sandys (page images at HathiTrust)

• Francisci Fvlginei protonotarij apostolici ... Tractatvs de ivre emphytevtico, in qvo qvaestiones omnes, qvae ad materiam spectant, titulis aptè distinctis, adamussim discutiuntur & enucleantur. (apud Leonardum Chouët, 1665), by Franciscus Fulgineus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cato's Farm Management; Eclogues from the De Re Rustica of M. Porcius Cato, Done Into English, With Notes of Other Excursions In the Pleasant Paths of Agronomic Literature (Privately printed, 1910), by Marcus Porcius Cato, ed. by Fairfax Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro Done into English, With Notes of Modern Instances (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, ed. by Fairfax Harrison
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• Chiltern and vale farming explained : according to the latest improvements. By the author of the Practical farmer; or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: truly necessary for all landlords and tenants of with ploughed grass, or wood grounds. ... (printed for T. Osborne, 1745), by William Ellis and Thomas Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The science of good husbandry: or, The oeconomics of Xenophon. Shewing the method of ruling and ordering a family, and of managing a farm to the best advantage. (Printed for Tho. Corbet, 1727), by Xenophon and Richard Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro, by Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, trans. by Fairfax Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)

• Observationes practico-legales in duas partes distinctae, pars prima, De avocatione, et remissione causarum, tam ad terminos juris communis, quàm particularium constitutionum apostolicarum de causis non avocandis, una cum praxi tribunalis Signaturae gratiae, & justitiae. Pars secunda, De emphiteusi, et feudo, tam ad terminos juris communis, quàm particularium constitutionum apostolicarum de bonis emphyteuticis, una cum decisionibus Sacrae Rotae romanae ad materiam alibi non impressis (Typis Rocchi Bernabò, 1715), by Carolus de Calcagninis and Catholic Church Rota Romana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité ou dissertation sur plusieurs matières féodales (Saugrain, 1746), by Germain-Antoine Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)

• A true narrative concerning Sir Arthur Haslerigs possessing of Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburnes estate in the county of Durham (Imprinted at London : [s.n.], 1653), by Gascoyne Eden (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America to Their Respective Countries (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1781), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the River Ohio (ca.1775), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the river Ohio (Philadelphia: Printed by Styner and Cist, 1776), by Samuel Wharton (HTML at Evans TCP)
• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the River Ohio (Williamsburg: Printed by J. Dixon and T. Nicolson, 1779), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Littleton's tenures in English (J. Byrne & Co., 1903), by Thomas Littleton and Eugene Wambaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceo d[i]tte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walt[e]r de Henleye qe puys se rendi en le ord[e]r de frer[e] predicheur (1300), by Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Rothamsted Experimental Station. Library, and Riviere & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the Lord Jeffreys, and the Lady Charlotte, his wife, sole daughter and heir of Philip Earl of Pembroke, deceased, in relation to a bill entituled, an Act to set aside several amendments and alterations made in the records and writs of a fine and two recoveries in the Grand Sessions, held for the county of Glamorgan. ([London? : s.n., 1693]), by John Jeffreys Jeffreys of Wem (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled, the proposals of William Sydenham, esquire, for the raising a considerable revenue to His Majesty, by a tax on mony, proportionable to that on land; which he humbly layeth before your honours great wisdom and consideration ([London : s.n., 1696]), by William Sydenham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Kings most excellent Maiestie. The humble petition of two sisters the Church and Common-wealth: for the restoring of their ancient commons and liberties, which late inclosure with depopulation, vncharitably hath taken away: containing seuen reasons as euidences for the same. (Londini : [F. Kingston] impensis Georgii Bishop, 1604), by Francis Trigge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An humble request, to the ministers of both Universities, and to all lawyers in every Inns-a-Court To consider of the scriptures and points of law herein mentioned, and to give a rational and christian answer, whereby the difference may be composed in peace, between the poor men of England, who have begun to digge, plow, and build upon the common land, claiming it their own, by right of creation. And the lords of mannours that trouble them, who have no other claiming to Commons, then the Kings will, or from the power of the conquest, and if neither minister nor lawyer, will undertake a reconciliation in this case, for the beauty of our Common-Wealth. Then we appeale, to the stones, timber, and dust of the earth you tread upon, to hold forth the light of this business, questioning not, but that power that dwells every where, will cause light to spring out of darkness, and freedom out of bondage. By Gerard Winstanley. (London : printed J.C. and are to be sold at the two Bibles, at the west end of Pauls Church-yard, 1650), by Gerrard Winstanley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axholm, in the county of Lincoln, concerned in the bill for an act for setting the level of Hatfield Chase humbly presented to the right Honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the Marquess of Hertford touching the dukedome of Somerset ([London? : s.n., 1642]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the purchasers of some lands, belonging to the corporation of Malmesbury, in the county of Wilts, by leases for 21 years. ([London : s.n., 1689?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, and every individual member thereof (Printed at London : and are to be sold at the seven stars in Pauls Church-yard, neer the great North-door, 1653), by Daniel Noddel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, and every individual member thereof. The great complaint and declaration of about 1200. free-holders and commoners (London : [s.n.], printed in the year 1654), by Daniel Noddel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to the case of the commoners of the manor of Epworth, in the isle of Axholme in the country of Lincoln ; published in opposition to the bill for making the statutes of Edw. 1. and Edw. 6. against destroying improvements more effectual ([London : s.n., 169-?]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief remembrance when the report concerning the pretended ryot in the isle of Axholm shall be read. Humbly tendered to every individual member of Parliament, by the free-holders and commoners within the mannor of Epworth in the said isle, in number neer 1200. besides new-erected cottages. Against certain undertakers, who call themselves participants in the drayning of the level of Hatfield chase; concerning 7400 acres of commonable lands (being no part of the said chase, but lying within the mannor of Epworth) taken from the free-holders by the said undertakers about twenty yeers since, under colour of the late Kings patent contrary to law. And because the report doth not at all set forth the proceedings that have been at law, therefore the free-holders humbly inform, as followeth: viz. ([London : s.n., 1653]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of Thomas Eyre Esq respondent to the petition of Thomas Eyre, William Ing, Henry Balgay Esquires, and other appealants. ([London : s.n., 1684?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of John Forster, respondent to the petition of appeal of Henry Forster, which seeks to reverse a decree of dismission made in Chancery the last day of May last; and to affirm a decree made in 1674 against the said John Forster (he being then an infant of seven years of age) unless cause shewn when he came of age. ([London? : s.n., 1690]), by Henry Forster and John Forster (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of Thomas Earl of Pembroke. ([London? : s.n., 1700?]), by Thomas Herbert Pembroke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the honorable the Commissioners for Compounding the humble petition of Josiah Primatt, citizen and leather-seller of London: ([London : s.n., 1651]), by Josiah Primatt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons and considerations humbly proposed, why no Act of Attainder should extend to make a forfeiture of that part of the estate of Sir John Danvers deceased, which is come to his onely son Mr. John Danvers an infant. ([London? : s.n., 1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the right honourable Thomas Earl Rivers, upon his appeal exhibited before the Lords in Parliament, against a dismission made by the court of Chancery of a Bill exhibited by him against the right honourable William George Richard Earl of Derby, William Earl of Strafford, Thomas Munne, gent, and Frances Richardson, widdow defendants. ([London : s.n., 1688]), by Thomas Savage Rivers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of William now Earl of Derby executor of Charlotte Katherina Savaged deceased, only daughter of Thomas Lord Colchester deceas'd, in aan [sic] appeal depending before the Right Honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament Assembled, from a dismission made in the High Court of Chancery, of a bill exhibited by Thomas Earl Rivers plaintiff, against the Earls of Derby and Strafford, Frances Richardson executrix of John Richardson, and Thomas Munne dfendants. [sic] ([London? : s.n., 1688]), by William George Richard Stanley Derby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of Sir Robert Cleark, in an appeal against Henry Serle, Esquire. ([London? : s.n., 1685]), by Robert Clarke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Edmond Griffin, esq; appellant. John Lingard, Respondent. The case of Edmond Griffin, esq; upon his appeal in Parliament. ([London? : s.n., 1695?]), by Edmond Griffin and John Lingard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The answers and case of Francis VVyvill and Ann his VVife, to the petition and appeal of Dorothy Hewley, Exhibited by or on her behalf against them, to the right honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1690]), by Dorothy Hewley, Francis Wyvill, and Anne Wyvill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Propositions 1. For recording and registering of deeds and conveyances. 2. Judgments, statutes, and other incumbrances upon lands and tenements. For prevention of frauds and deceits in sales; and quieting of possessions of purchasers. 3. For inabling creditors to have the benefit of copy-hold, and intayled lands and tenements for their satisfaction. As far as may be conveyed by surrender, or cut off by fine or common recovery; and of all chattals real, as well as personall. / By William Leach of the Middle-Temple, gent. (London : Printed by W:H: and are to be sold by G:B: at his shop in Fleetstreet, 1651), by William Leach (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Walter Williams, and Elizabeth his wife, appealants. Richard Reed the Younger, respondent. The appeal is to be relieved against two decrees, the first made by the Lords Keeper Coventry, Anno 1639. (46 years since) the second by the Earl of Nottingham, late Lord Chancellor, 32 Car. II. ([S.l. : s.n., 1685]), by Walter Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De la destruction du régime féodal, ou, Commentaires sur les nouvelles loix relatives aux droits ci-devant féodaux et censuels, à leur rachat et liquidation, et à leur nature et forme de perception actuelles (Chez l'Auteur ... :, 1791), by M. Garnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• De priuilegiis rusticorum, libris tres (Praelo typographico Richteriano, sumptibus Egenolphi Emmelii, 1608), by René Choppin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations sur les domaines du roi, sur les vices de leur administration actuelle : & sur les moyens d'en tirer, au profit de l'État, le produit dont ils sont susceptibles. (Aux dépens de la Société typographique, 1787) (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of land-honors and baronies, and of tenure in capite (Printed for Francis Gosling, at the Crown and Mitre against Fetter-Lane, Fleestreet, 1741), by Thomas Madox and Francis Gosling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first part of the Institvtes of the lawes of England, or, A commentarie vpon Littleton : not the name of a lawyer onely, but of the law it selfe (Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1628), by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the supreme authority of England, the High Court of Parliament assembled at Westminster the humble petition of Richard Truelove and Henry Truelove, of the town of Ipswich, on the behalfs [sic] of themselves and others, heirs at law to Thomas Causton, late of Thundersley in the county of Essex, Gent. A martyr: ([London : s.n., 1650]), by Richard Truelove, Henry Truelove, and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat lawyer, or, A treatise concerning [brace] tenures and estates in lands of inheritance for life and for yeares of chattels, reall and personall, and how any of them may be conveyed in a legall forme, by fine, recovery, deed or word, as the case shall require / per Guliel. Noy ... (London : Printed for D. Pakeman, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Rainebow, neer the Inner-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1651), by William Noy (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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