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• Die bürgerliche Rechtspflege in England (F. Vahlen, 1887), by Ernest Joseph Schuster, Rudolph Gneist, and Verlag Franz Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Certain proposals of divers clerks and attorneys of the Court of Common Pleas for the taking away fines upon original writs and damage cleer and regulating the proceedings of law and remedying some inconveniences ... / presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. (London : Printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton ..., 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The filacers office, or, The measne processe filacers make out before appearance, the nature and forms of their several writs, and the manner of their proceedings thereupon.: Together with a table of their fees. Very usefull for all attorneys and practisers of the law, for the dispatch of their businesse in the filacers office. With an exact table, relating to all the matters herein contained. (London : Printed for Tho. Firby, and are to be sold at his shop near Grayes-Inne-Gate in Holborn, [1657]), by J. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The common law epitomiz'd with directions how to prosecute and defend personal actions, very useful for all lawyers, justices of peace, and gentlemen : to which is annexed the nature of a writ of error, and the general proceedings there upon : with a plain table for the easie finding out of every particular / by William Glisson and Anthony Gulston ... (London : Printed by the assigns of Rich, and Edw. Atkins for Hen. Brome and Tho. Basset ..., 1679), by William Glisson, Anthony Gulston, William Style, and Henry Applegarth (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Common law epitomiz'd (London, : Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivy-Lane, and Thomas Basset in St. Dunstans Church-yard., 1659), by William Glisson and Anthony Gulston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An abatement of most of the motions & orders in chancery and other chargeable courts and of the greatest part of the charges which may be in those hereafter, or motions and orders reduced from twenty to two, and most of those to the tenth part of the charge, as formerly hath been / written by W. Leach, for the same intent, and tendred to the consideration as his former are. (London : Printed by E. Cotes, in the Year 1652), by William Leach (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rules and orders for the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, made and published by the judges of the said court, in the term of St. Michael, in the year one thousand six hundred fifty foure. (London : Printed for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard fleet street, 1654), by England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposalls concerning the chancery. VVherein is set forth the desires of divers well-affected-persons, for the regulating of the high-court of Chancery, and the proceedings there; and abolishing of severall fees, offices and officers, thereunto belonging. Tendred to the consideration of the honourable committee for regulating courts of justice, and all others whom it may concern. And published to the view of the nation; whereby every well-meaning man to the publique may joyn, in all lawfull wayes, for obteyning a just settlement and regulation of the said court. With a very usefull table thereto annexed. (London : Printed by William Ellis, and are to bee sold by George Badger, at his shop in St. Dunstons Church-yard in Fleet-street, An. Dom. 1650) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King. A proclamation declaring His maiesties grace to his subiects, touching matters complained of, as publique greeuances. (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, M. D C.XXI. [1621]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A report on commercial arbitration in England (American Judicature Society, 1916), by Samuel Rosenbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arbitrium redivivum, or, The law of arbitration collected from the law-books both ancient and modern and deduced to these times, wherein the whole learning of awards or arbitrements is methodically treated : with several forms of submissions by way of covenants and bond : as also several forms of arbitrements or awards / by the author of Regula placitandi. (London : Printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, Esquires for Isaac Cleeve, 1694), by Author of Regula placitandi (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of Actions for slanders with a second part of arbitrements together with directions and presidents to them ... : to which is added Libels or a caveat to all infamous libellers ... : to which likewise is added what defamations are derminable in the ecclesiastical courts, what not : as also certain queries or doubtful cases ... : and to each particular treatise severall and distinct tables / by John March. (London : Printed for Mathew Walbancke, 1640), by John March (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ordered by the Parliament, that all treasurers, sub-collectors, committees, and other officers of sequestrations in the several counties, be enjoyned from henceforth not to make payment of any rents ... to any other person ... save unto the treasurer of Goldsmiths-Hall ... (London : Printed by Iohn Field for Edward Husband ..., 1649), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act appointing commissioners for sequestrations.: Tuesday, August 2. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Tho. St Nicholas Clerk of the Parliament. (London : printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleetstreet, over against Dunstans Church, 1659), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for repeal of two acts for sequestrations.: Fryday March 2. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Thomas St. Nicholas, clerk of the Parliament. (London : printed by John Streater, and John Macock, printers to the Parliament, 1659. [i.e. 1660]), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An additionall act for sequestrations.: Tuesday, February 7. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Thomas St. Nicholas, Clerk of the Parliament. (London : printed by John Streater, and John Macock, printers to the Parliament, 1659. [i.e. 1660]), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for further doubling the sum of one hundred thousand pounds,: upon an act, entituled, An act for sale of several lands and estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for treason. ([London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1652]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for several lands and estates forfeited to the Commonvvealth for treason,: appointed to be sold for the use of the Navy. Wednesday, 4th August, 1652. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. (London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1652), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proceedings. 1643-04-01 (London : Aprill 1. Printed for Iohn Wright, and Iohn Franke, 1643), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that all the rents and profits of the estates of all sequestred persons (not excepted from composition) which were due at Lady day last ... be retained in the hands of the several & respective tenants ... (London : Printed by Richard Cotes, [1649]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance of explanation and further enlargement of a former ordinance made by the Lords and Commons in Parliamnet,: for sequestration of delinquents estates-with an oath for renouncing of popery. August 19. 1643. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament assembled, that this ordinance be forethwith printed and published. H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London : Printed for Lawrence Blaikelocke, are to be sold at his Shop neer Temple-Bar, Aug. 21. 1643), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament,: for the better execution of the former oridinances for sequestration of delinquents and papists estates. Together with an oath that is to be taken within ten dayes after notice given of this present ordinance, by the severall sequestrators, committees, and persons imployed by vertue of the said ordinance. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. ([London] : Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, May 27. 1644), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Three ordinances, declarations and votes of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament,: for the present assessing of all such within the cities of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, that have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament. With the additionall instructions to the Lord Maior, &c. and the assessors and collectors of the said contributions. (London : Printed for Iohn Wright in the Old-baily, Decemb. 22, 1642), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Londons lawless liberty: or A Gozmonian partie licensed.: Being a true discoverie of a pack of prodigious knaves, who have under pretence of an act of Common Councell of the City of London, seized (as they tearme it) and taken away from divers free-men of the same city, their true aud [sic] proper goods, and that in such a horrid and uncivil[l?] manner, as no heathens whatsoever, could with more cruelty have exercised the same. Together with a particular of the names of some of those persons which have had their goods illegally taken away, as the same was attested under their hands, and presented to the adjutators of the army, under the command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, Captaine Generall of all the forces in England and Wales, the 27. of August, 1647. / Published by Iohn Harvey Gentleman. (London : Printed, for the good of all free-men, who desire to maintaine their owne priviledges in their calling, in the yeare, 1647), by John Harvey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Essay concerning sequestrations. (London : Printed for R. Janeway ..., 1681), by Edmund Hickeringill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The oppressed mans second outcry for justice, to every member of Parliament against the unparallel'd corruptions, and most cruel oppression, tyranny, and incomparable injustice exercised by the Commissioners for Compounding sitting at Haberdashers Hall London, upon Cornet Christopher Cheesman, late agent for sequestrations in the county of Berks the author hereof ... ([London] : Printed at London, 1652), by Christopher Cheesman and England and Wales. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Instrvctions agreed on by a committee of the Lords and Commons for the committee for sequestration of delinquents estates also an order of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning persons that shall come from Oxford or any part of the Kings army to London, without warrant from both Houses of Parliament, or from his Excellencie the Earle of Essex, shall be apprehended as spyes and proceeded against according to the rules of warre. (London : Printed for Edw. Husbands ..., Aprill 11,1643), by England and Wales. Parliament. Committee for Sequestration of Delinquents' Estates (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that all committees of sequestrations in the severall counties of England and Wales, do take care that all sequestrated lands in the severall counties be improved to the utmost values ([London] : Printed at London for John Wright ..., 1647), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. ([London?] : Printed for Edward Husbands, Iune 14, 1644), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (London : Printed for John Wright ..., 12 May, 1645), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Another order of the Commons assembled in Parliament concerning coals requiring the Lord Major of the city of London forthwith to put the former ordinance concerning the prises of coals in execution : and in case he finde any obstruction (London : Printed for Edw. Husbands ..., Aprill 21, 1643), by England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the right honourable the Commons in Parliament assembled, the humble petition of Sir John Lenthal, Knight ([London : s.n., 1658?]), by John Lenthall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The famous tryal in B.R. between Thomas Neale, Esq. and the late Lady Theadosia Ivy the 4th of June, 1684, before the Right Honourable the late Lord Jeffreys, lord chief justice of England, for part of Shadwell in the county of Middlesex ... together with a pamphlet heretofore writ ... by Sir Thomas Ivy ... ([S.l.: s.n.], 1696), by Elam Mossam, Theadosia Stepkins Ivy, Thomas Neale, Thomas. Alimony arraigned Ivie, and England and Wales. Court of King's Bench (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A collection of such of the orders heretofore used in Chauncery with such alterations and additions thereunto, as the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal of England, by and with the advice and assistance of the Honorable the Master of the Rolls, have thought fit at present (in order to a further reformation now under their Lordships consideration) to ordain and publish for reforming of several abuses in the said Court, preventing multiplicity of suits, motions, and unnecessary charge to the suitors, and for their more expeditious and certain course for relief. (London : Printed by Robert White for Franics Tyton ..., 1652), by England and Wales. Court of Chancery, William Lenthall, and Richard Keble (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A collection of such of the orders heretofore used in Chancery with such alterations and additions thereunto, as the right honorable Edward Earle of Clarendon, lord chancellor of England ... and ... the honorable Sir Harbottle Brimston, Barronet, master of the rolls, have thought fit at present to ordaine and publish for reforming of several abuses in the said courts, preventing multiplicity of suits, motions, and unnecessary charge to the suiters, and for their more expeditious and certain course for relief. (London : Printed for Henry Chase and are to be sold at his shop ... and by Humphery Tuckey ..., 1661), by England and Wales. Court of Chancery, Edward Hyde Clarendon, and Harbottle Grimston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The transactions of the High Court of Chancery, both by practice and president,: with the fees thereunto belonging, and all speciall orders in extraordinary cases, which are to be found in the registers office as they are quoated by tearmes yeares & bookes. Collected by that famous lawyer William Tothill Esq; late one of the 6 clearks. And since reveiwed [sic] by Sir Ro: Holborne, bencher of Lincolns-Inne. (London : Printed by T.W. for R. Best and I. Place, and are to be sold at Grays-Inne-Gate, 1649), by William Tothill and Robert Holborne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certain proposals of divers clerks and attorneys of the Court of Common Pleas for the taking away fines upon original writs and damage cleer and regulating the proceedings of law and remedying some inconveniences ... / presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. (London : Printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton ..., 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ordines cancellariæ, being orders of the High Court of Chancery, from the first year of King Charles I, to this present Hillary term, 1697 ... to which is added the Rules and orders of the Court of Exchequer. (London : Printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, Esquires, for J. Walthoe, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1698), by England and Wales. Court of Chancery and England and Wales. Court of Exchequer. Rules and orders of the Court of Exchequer (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Law unknown, or, Judgement unjust wherein is shewed, that some persons were indicted, judged, and condemned at the sessions in the Old Bailey, London, by an unknown Law, neither printed nor published, nor any ways knowable by the common people, whereby the inhabitants of this nation may perceive what unavoidable bondage and slavery they are going into : with a brief relation of the killing of John Townesend, by Major Crosby at St. Albones, and the proceedings of court thereupon, in quitting the said Crosby, and punishing the peaceable standers by, and some remarkable passages of Sir Harbottle Grimston in the said tryal : together also with certain queries, grounded upon the Act of Indempnity, especially recommended to the serious consideration of the said Sir Harbottle, and all the members of that Parliament whereof he was speaker. ([London] printed : s.n., 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Mr. Emmertons marriage with Mrs. Bridget Hyde considered wherein is discoursed the rights and nature of marriage, what authority the Curia Christianitatis hath in matrimonial causes at this day, the levitical degrees, the bounds of a legal marriage, and the reasons thereof, and that now matrimonial causes are determinable by virtue of the statute of H. 8. by the judges of common law : in a letter from a gentleman in the country to one of the commissioners delegates in that cause, desiring his opinion therein. (London : Printed for the Author and published by Richard Baldwin, 1682), by Thomas Hunt (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Maxims and rules of pleading, in actions real, personal and mixt, popular and penal describing the nature of declarations, pleas, replications, rejoynders, and all other parts of pleading, shewing their validity and defects, and in what cases they are amendable by the court, or remediable by the statute-law, or otherwise : likewise, which of the parties in his plea shall first offer the issue, and where special matter may be given in evidence upon the general issue : of demurrers upon evidence, of verdicts, general and special, and of bills of exceptions to the same, of judgments, executions, writs of error and false judgment, and of appeals, indictments, and informations and the pleadings relating thereunto / published from the manuscript of Sir Robert Heath ... ; with additions of new matter to every title, from all the reports since his time. (London : Printed for Abel Roper ..., 1694), by Robert Heath (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A book of special entries of declarations, pleadings, issues, verdicts, judgments and judicial process in such actions as are now in use and have not hitherto been published in any printed book of precedents together with such notes and observations as do either illustrate or explain the same : as also such parts of pleadings and judicial process which do naturally fall under the division of each distinct title as necessary and incident thereunto / collected by the particular direction of Sir Thomas Robinson ... (London : Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and H. Sawbridge assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for T. Basset ... R. Chriswell ... and B. Tooke ..., 1684), by Thomas Robinson and England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Court leete et court baron. English (London : Printed by T: Roycroft, for M: Walbanke at Grays-Inne Gate, and H: Twyford, in Vine Court in the Middle Temple, 1651), by John Kitchin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A preparative to pleading being a work intended for the instruction and help of young clerks of the court of common pleas / by George Townesend ... (London : Printed for Israel Harrison ..., 1675), by George Townesend (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reports. English. Selections (London : Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell ..., 1659), by Edward Coke and William Hughes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the Mayor, Martis nono die Martij 1668, annoq, Regis Caroli Secundi dei gratia Angliæ &c. decimo nono ([London : s.n., 1688]), by City of London (England) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Selections. 1683 (London : Printed for Thomas Basset ... and Richard Chiswell ..., MDCLXXXIII [1683]), by John Selden, Adam Littleton, and Robert White (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance for continuing one act of Parlament,: entituled, An act for probate of wills, and granting administrations. Monday April 3. 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Council. (London : Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1654), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for probate of vvills, and granting administrations: ([London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two treatises written by John Selden ... ; the first, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments ; the second, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods. (London : Printed for Thomas Basset ... and Richard Chiswell ..., MDCLXXXIII [1683]), by John Selden (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reasons against the bill for erecting courts of conscience ([London? : s.n., 1670?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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