World trials library

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The series World trials library represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in University of San Diego Libraries.

... Enter murderers! : Eight studies in murder
... Report and evidence of the Commission of inquiry into the loss of the British steamship "Empress of Ireland" of Liverpool (O.no.123972) through collision with the Norwegian steamship "Storstad," Quebec, June, 1914 .
13 Communists speak to the court : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn [and others]
13th Juror : the Inside Story of My Trial
A Brief account of the designs which the papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, occasioned by his commitment, July 2, 1681
A Collection of tracts concerning the present state of Ireland : with respect to its riches, revenue, trade, and manufactures
A Compilation of cases of contested elections to seats in the Assembly of the state of New York : with the reports of committees on privileges and elections, and the action of the House thereon : from 1777 to 1899, inclusive
A Full and true relation of two very remarkable tryals at the quarter-sessions of the peace for the city and liberty of Westminster : held in the great hall, on Monday the third of October, and ending the eleventh of the same : the one, for scandalous words, by one Shippon : the other, of a priest in the gate-house, for spoiling a girl of nine years old
A Liveryman's reply to Sir Crisp Gascoigne's address : shewing that gentleman's real motives and his whole conduct concerning Canning and Squires
A Select and impartial account of the lives, behaviour, and dying words, of the most remarkable convicts, from the year 1700, down to the present time. : Containing amongst many others the following, viz. Herdman Strodman, for the barbarous murder of Peter Wolter, his fellow apprentice. Thomas Cook, the Gloucester butcher, for the murder of Mr. John Cooper, a constable in May fair. John Morgridge, for the murder of Lieut. Cope, at the Tower. Mr. Gregg, clerk to the Late Secretary Harley, Earl of Oxford, for holding correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies. Richard Town, tallow-chandler, the only person who was executed on the Bankrupt Act. Col. Oxburgh, Richard Gascoigne, Esq ; Justice Hall, and Parson Paul, for high-treason. Marquiss de Paleotti, for stabbing his servant. Lieutenant Bird, for the murder of Sam. Loxton, at a Bagnio. Matthias Brinsden, for the murder of his wife. Capt. John Massey, for piracy. Capt. John Stanley, for the murder of Mrs. Maycock. Jonathan Wild, the thief-taker for several felonies
A True account of the whole proceedings betwixt His Grace James Duke of Ormond and the Right Honor. Arthur Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy-seal : before the King and Council : and the said earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester's to the said earl, of the means to keep out popery
A Vindication of publick justice and of private character, against the attacks of a "Council of Ministers" of the "Methodist Episcopal Church."
A breach of impunity : the trial for the murder of Jesuits in El Salvador : report of the trial observer of the International Commission of Jurists
A brief history of the Pittsburgh forgery case
A brief narrative of the case and trial of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New York weekly journal
A brief vindication of Mr. Percivall Brunskell's case : with an account of twenty one years most remarkable passages
A calendar of cases of witchcraft in Scotland, 1510-1727
A case decided in the Supreme Court of the United States in February, 1793 : in which is discussed the question "whether a state be liable to be sued by a private citizen of another state?"
A change in direction for Seoul? : the impeachment of South Korea's president
A circumstantial report of the evidence and proceedings upon the charges preferred against His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the capacity of Commander in Chief in the months of February and March 1809 : before the Honourable House of Commons : including the whole of the original letters of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the speeches correctly taken in full of the various members, with all the other documents produced in the course of the investigation and the decision of the House of Commons upon this very important subject
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland from A.D. 1536 to 1784 : with historical and critical remarks
A collection of curious trials, criminal, civil, and high treason : prior to the year 1661, including some interesting trials in the Star Chamber, and a graphic account of the last trial by combat in England
A collection of interrogatories for the examination of witnesses in courts of equity : as settled by the most eminent counsel
A collection of the facts and documents, relative to the death of Major-General Alexander Hamilton : with comments, together with the various orations, sermons, and eulogies, that have been published or written on his life and character
A compilation of cases of breaches of privilege of the House, in the Assembly of the state of New York : with the reports of standing and special committees and the proceedings and judgments thereon, together with full references to all action in each case, from 1777 to 1871
A complete collection of state-trials, and proceedings for high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours : from the reign of King Richard II to the end of the reign of King George I : in six volumes, with two alphabetical tables to the whole
A complete history and development of all the extraordinary circumstances and events connected with the murder of Mr. Weare : together with the trial at large, including speeches of counsel, examination of evidence, defence, &c. &c. : a faithful picture of all the fashionable "modern hells" and "black-legs" of the metropolis, with sketches of the principal individuals who frequent them, whether in the character of "Greeks" or "pigeons" : an exposition of the frauds practised, the immense sums won and lost, and the calamitous events to which this system of nefarious villany has in many instances led : comprising most curious and highly interesting details, furnished from original and authentic sources, with a view to deter the young and unwary novice from this vortex of vice and misery : the whole forming a genuine series of gambling biography
A complete history and development of all the extraordinary circumstances and events connected with the murder of Mr. Weare : together with the trial at large; including the speeches of counsel-examination of evidence-defence ... The whole forming a genuine series of gambling biography
A complete history of the life and trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield : a graphic sketch of his erratic career as detailed (expressly for this work) by his former wife, Mrs. Dunmire : also, an autobiography, as dictated by himself since the shooting and a carefully prepared history of the trial, in many respects the most remarkable of the present century, giving all the most important and interesting portions of the testimony, the startling interruptions by the prisoner, incidents, arguments of counsel, charge by the judge, sentence, &c., &c.
A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeline Smith, for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier
A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler prosecuted for sorcery in 1324
A correct report of the examination of Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, minister of the Methodist Church in Bristol, R.I., who was charged with the murder of Sarah M. Cornell
A correct statement and review of the trial of Joseph T. Buckingham, for an alledged libel on the Rev. John N. Maffit, before the Hon. Josiah Quincy, judge of the municipal court, Dec. 16, 1822
A correct, full, and impartial report, of the trial of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain, before the House of Peers, on the bill of pains and penalties : with authentic particulars, embracing every circumstance connected with, and illustrative of, the subject of this momentous event interspersed with original letters, and other curious and interesting documents, not generally known, and never before published, including, at large, Her Majesty's defence
A correspondence between Edward Brooks and John A. Lowell : with remarks by Edward Brooks referring to documents annexed
A defence of Her Majesty's title to the crown, and a justification of her entring into a war with France and Spain : as it was deliver'd in a sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford on the 10th day of June, 1702 : being fast appointed for imploring a blessing on Her Majesty and allies engaged in the present war
A defence of the conduct of Commodore Morris during his command in the Mediterranean : with strictures on the report of the court of enquiry held at Washington
A defensive declaration of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn
A detail of the duties of a deputy judge advocate : with precedents of forms of the various documents used in summoning, assembling and holding a naval court martial : with the proceedings thereof, to the passing of sentence : also records of sentences, with cases and opinions on special points
A dutiful letter. : To which is adjoyn'd, another ; to prove non-jurors no schismaticks
A faithful and copious report of the trial of J. Thurtell and Hunt, for the muder of Mr. Weare, at the Hertford assizes, before Mr. Justice Park : to which is added a copious narrative of the proceedings subsequent to the trial ..., embellished with strikingly characteristic copperplate engravings, highly coloured
A faithful report of the second trial of the proprietors of the Northern Star : At the bar of the Court of King's-Bench, on the 17th of November, 1794, on an information, filed ex-officio, by the attorney general: for the insertion of the Society of United Irishmen's address to the Volunteers of Ireland, on the 19th December, 1792. By a barrister
A familiar exposition of homoeopathia : or the new mode of curing diseases, illustrating its superiority over the prevalent system of medicine
A few interesting facts concerning the management of the Mutual Life Insurance Comp'y and the N.Y. Life Insurance Co. : from Manning's tabulated and correct edition of testimony, taken before the New York Assembly in 1877, and from reports of former committees
A full account of the trial of Simon M. Landis, M.D., for uttering and publishing a book entitled "Secrets of generation"
A full and accurate report of the trial of William Cobbett, Esq : (before Lord Tenterden and a special jury) on Thursday, July 7, 1831, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall
A full and accurate report of the trial of William P. Darnes : on an indictment found by the grand jury of St. Louis County at the September term, 1840, of the Criminal Court of said county on a charge of manslaughter in the third degree for the death of Andrew J. Davis (late of Northboro', Mass.) in the city of St. Louis on the first of June, 1840
A full history of the great breach of promise case of Nannie A. Dickey vs. John B. Tytus, as reported and compiled by the author : illustrated with engravings of the photographs and autographs of John B. Tytus, Nancy A. Dickey, Little Alice, Gordon Shillito, and attorneys Hon. Thos. Millikin and C.F. Gunckel, esq., for plaintiff, and Col. T.C. Campbell and Judge J.C. M'Kemy, for defendant and Detective Snelbaker : an illustration of "I Want to Marry You, " the metal porcupine, etc. : also, an illustration of that awful buggy-ride
A full report of the case of Hilyard vs. Miller : with the arguments of the counsel concerned in the cause : together with the opinion of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania therein : to which is added an appendix, containing a report of the case of Miller vs. Lerch, in the Circuit Court of the United States, with the documentary evidence and the testimony of witnesses on the question of pedigree
A full report of the evidence taken at the Thames Police Court, and the coroner's inquest, before Mr. Baker, and a respectable jury, at Stepney, on the 10th of June, 1844 : on the alleged poisoning case, also the trial of J.C. Belany, for the murder of his wife, at the Central Criminal Court, on August the 21st & 22nd, 1844 : with all the letters and opinions of the public press
A full report of the important toll cause, of Brett v. Beales : tried in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, before the Lord Chief Justice, to determine the legality of the Corporation of Cambridge exacting certain tolls from the inhabitants and others
A full report of the trial of Capt. William H. Tower : charged with feloniously scuttling the barque, Brothers' Pride, of Saint John, N.B. on the 7th day of May 1879, in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida
A full report of the trial of Major-General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, Michael Bruce, Esq., and Capt. John Hely Hutchinson, before the Court of Assize at Paris, on the 22d of April, 1816, and two following days, for aiding the escape of Count Lavalette : including a short memoir of Sir R.T. Wilson : with an appendix, containing the celebrated letter to Earl Grey, and the arret of the chamber of accusation
A full report, embracing all the evidence and arguments in the case of the Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Thomas Ritchie, Jr. : tried at the Spring term of the Chesterfield Superior Court, 1846 : to which is added, an appendix, shewing the action of the court in relation to the other parties, Messrs. P.J. Archer, W. Greenhow and William Scott, connected with the said case
A further account of the tryals of the New-England witches : with the observations of a person who was upon the place several days when the suspected witches were first taken into examination : to which is added, Cases of conscience concerning witchcrafts and evil spirits personating men
A gallery of rogues
A history of the Pocasset tragedy : with the three sermons preached in New Bedford
A history of the trial of Castner Hanway and others for treason : at Philadelphia in November, 1851 : with an introduction upon the history of the slave question
A legal argument before the Supreme Court of the state of New Jersey : at the May term, 1845, at Trenton, for the deliverance of four thousand persons from bondage
A legal review of the case of Dred Scott : as decided by the Supreme Court of the United States
A letter from a gentleman at Mahon : to - giving an account of the escape and marriage of three nuns of the order of St. Clare
A letter from the King to his people
A letter to the Bishop of London : containing a charge of fornication against Edward, Lord Thurlow, Lord High Chancellor of England ; with his Lordship's de bene esse defense
A letter to the Right Hon. Earl of Suffolk, one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State : in which the innocence of Robert Perreau is demonstrated
A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of -- concerning the affair of Elizabeth Canning
A letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice of England, G.C.B. etc. etc. etc. : in reply to His Lordship's letter on the Bedingfield case
A list of some of the benevolent institutions of the city of Philadelphia and their legal titles : together with a form of devise and bequest to them
A minute and correct account of the trial of Lucian Hall, Bethuel Roberts and William H. Bell, for muder at the Middlesex Superior Court, Connecticut, February Term, 1844 : with the indictment, names of the grand and petit jurors, the testimony in full, the charge of the court to the petit jury, address of counsel, and the sentence upon the prisoner, with the judge's address to him : accompanied with plates and cuts representing the house in which the murder was committed : the country and localities between that and the residence of hall : showing his route with his confession signed by himself and a fac simile of his signature to the same and a representation of his wounded and bloody right hand : and other interesting matters relating to the murder and trial
A narrative of facts which led to the presentment of the Rt. Rev. Benj. T. Onderdonk, bishop of New-York
A narrative of the case of the Marchioness of Westmeath
A narrative of the proceedings and tryal of Mr. Francis Johnson, a Franciscan, at Worcester last summer-assizes Anno Dom. 1679
A narrative of the proceedings of the religious society of the people called Quakers, in Philadelphia, against John Evans : to which is added, a report of the evidence delivered on the trial of the case of John Evans, versus Ellis Yarnall and others : with an appendix, compiled under the direction of John Evans
A narrative, being a true relation of what discourse passed between Dr. Hawkins and Edward Fitz-Harys, Esq., late prisoner in the tower : with the manner of taking his confession
A political crime : the history of the great fraud
A popular essay on subjects of penal law and on uninterrupted solitary confinement at labor : as contradistinguished to solitary confinement at night and joint labor by day, in a letter to John Bacon
A reply to a pamphlet entilled [sic] "Remarks on the law of divorce in Pennsylvania, connected with the application of Edwin Forrest for a divorce."
A reply to the Review of Judge Advocate General Holt, of the proceedings, findings and sentence, of the general court martial, in the case of Major General Fitz John Porter, and a vindication of that officer
A report of an action for a libel brought by Dr. Benjamin Rush, against William Cobbett : in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, December term, 1799, for certain defamatory publications in a news-paper, entitled Porcupine's gazette, of which the said William Cobbett was editor.
A report of seven trials at the Clonmel Summer Assizes of MDCCCXXIX : including those which arose out of the occurrences at Borrisokane, on the 26th and 28th of July, 1829
A report of the case between Field and Harrison : determined by the High Court of Chancery, in which the decree was reversed by the Court of Appeals
A report of the case of Wilson v. Daly : argued and determined in the Consistorial Court of Dublin, in the year 1842
A report of the case of the Queen v. Gurney and others, in the Court of Queen's Bench, (the summing up revised by the lord chief-justice.) : with an introduction containing a history of the case and an examination of the cases at law and equity applicable to it or illustrating the doctrine of commercial fraud
A report of the case of the Right Rev. R.D. Hampden, D.D., lord bishop elect of Hereford : in Hereford Cathedral, the Ecclesiatical Courts, and the Queen's Bench
A report of the proceedings in the mock trial of an information, exhibited ex-officio by the King's Attorney General against William Tunbridge : for publication of a book called "Palmer's Principles of nature", as an alleged blasphemous libel upon the Christian religion, and the holy scriptures of the Jews and Christians, before a packed jury and Lord Chief Justice Abbott, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Monday, the 20th of January : to which is added the whole of the suppressed part of the defendant's defence, and the proceedings in the court at Westminster on receiving its sentence, on Thursday the sixth of February, 1823
A report of the trial of Andrew Wright, printer of the "Republican Spy," on an indictment for libels against Governor Strong before the Hon. Theophilus Parsons, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at Northampton, Sept. term 1806
A report of the trial of Commodore David Porter, of the Navy of the United States, before a General Court Martial, held at Washington, in July, 1825
A report of the trial of James Watson : for having sold a copy of Palmer's Principles of nature, at the shop of Mr. Carlile, 201, Strand, tried at the Clerkenwell sessions house, at the adjourned sessions for the county of Middlesex, on the 24th day of April, 1823, before Mr. Const, as chairman, and a common jury
A report of the trial of Robert Emmet, upon an indictment for high treason
A report of the trial of Samuel Tulley and John Dalton on an indictment for piracy, committed January 21st, 1812, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, 28th October, 1812 : containing the evidence at large, a sketch of the arguments of counsel and the charge of the Hon. Judge Story, on pronouncing sentence of death : (from minutes taken at the trial.)
A report of the trial of Thos. Kirwan, merchant : for a misdemeanor, charged to be committed in violation of the Convention Act
A report of the trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery : before the Supreme Judicial Court of Rhode Island, on an indictment for the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell : containing a full statement of the testimony, together with the arguments of counsel and the charge to the jury
A report of the trial of the Rev. Theodore Clapp, before the Mississippi Presbytery, at their sessions in May and December, 1832
A report of the trial of the action in which Bartholomew M'Garahan was the plaintiff, and the Rev. Thomas Maguire was the defendant : tried in the Court of the Exchequer in Ireland, before the Hon. Baron Smith, on Thursday, the 13th, and Friday, the 14th of Dec., 1827
A report of the trial on an action for damages, brought by the Reverend Charles Massy against the most noble, the Marquis of Headfort, for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife : damages laid at £40,000
A report of trials before the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice, and the Hon. Baron Sir Wm. C. Smith, bart., at the Special Commission, at Maryborough : commencing on the 23rd May, and ending on the 6th June
A review of "Prof. Reese's review" of the Wharton trial : with a brief notice of the Schoeppe trial
A review of "The Review" of the late controversy between the Rev. Isaac Leeser and the Philadelphia Congregation, Mickve Israel
A review of the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Heggie : homicide, insane delusion
A review of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Geo. Reynolds vs. the United States
A review of the opinion of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the case of Waterman vs. Brown
A review of the prosecution against Abner Kneeland, for blasphemy
A review of the reports, evidence, and arguments, as presented in the case of Trinity Church, to the Legislature of New-York, 1857
A review of the trial, conviction, and final imprisonment in the common jail of the county of Suffolk, of Abner Kneeland, for the alleged crime of blasphemy
A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. Patrick Hurley, for Perjury. Dr. Henry Sacheverell, for a Misdemeanor. James Earl of Derwentwater, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl of Nithisdale, Robert Earl of Carnwath, and William Lord Nairn, for High Treason. George Earl of Wintoun, for High Treason. Robert Earl of Oxford, for High Treason, and other High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Major Stede, Bonnet, and Thirty-Three others, for Piracy. Jeffery Gilbert, Lord Chief Baron of Ireland, John Pocklington, Esq ; and Sir John St. Leger, Barons of the Exchequer, for a Contempt of the House of Lords. Hugh Reason and Robert Tranter, for the Murder of Edward Lutterel, Esq ; Arundel Coke, alias Cooke, and John Woodbourne, for slitting Mr. Crispe's Nose. Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason
A select collection of singular and interesting histories : together with the tryals and judicial proceedings to which the extraordinary facts therein recorded gave occasion
A selection of cases from the state trials
A sermon addressed to the Second Presbyterian congregation in Albany, March 4, 1838, the Sabbath after intelligence was received that the Hon. Jonathan Cilley, member of Congress from Maine, had been shot in a duel with the Hon. William J. Graves, member from Kentucky
A short account of the authorities in law, upon which judgement was given in Sir Edw. Hales his case
A short history of the Salem village witchcraft trials : illustrated by a verbatim report of the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe
A sketch of the life of Miss Ellen Jewett, who was murdered in the city of New York, on Saturday evening April 9, 1836 : with a portrait copied from her miniature
A speech delivered before the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, in defence of Abner Kneeland, on an indictment for blasphemy : January term, 1834
A speech in the House of Lords, upon the third reading of the Bill for inflicting pains and penalties upon Francis late Lord Bishop of Rochester
A statement of facts and circumstances connected with the recent trial of the Bishop of New-York
A statement of reasons showing the illegality of that verdict upon which sentence of death has been pronounced against John W. Webster for the alleged murder of George Parkman
A statement of the causes which led to the dismissal of Surgeon-General William A. Hammond from the Army : with a review of the evidence adduced before the court
A summary of the trial, the King v. S.F. Waddington, for purchasing hops at Worcester : also the proceedings of the Court of King's Bench, when the rule was granted ; with notes
A true and genuine account of Samuel Orton, who was executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday, January 14, 1767, for a forgery upon the bank : by the clergyman who attended him : to which is annexed, his unhappy case drawn up by himself, wrote with his own hand and delivered to that clergyman requesting that it may be made public : together with three letters sent by him to the above gentleman after his conviction
A true and genuine account of the life, trial, and execution of James Bolland : late officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex, who was executed at Tyburn, March 18, 1772, for forgery
A true narrative and discovery of several very remarkable passages relating to the horrid popish plot : as they fell within the knowledge of Mr. Miles Prance
A tryal of witches : at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the county of Suffolk, on the tenth day of March, 1664 : before Sir Matthew Hale, kt., then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer
A verbatim report of the two trials of Mr. T.J. Wooler, editor of the Black dwarf for alledged libels : before Mr. Justice Abbott and a special jury on Thursday, June 5, 1817
A voice from Leverett Street Prison, or, The life, trial and confession of Simeon L. Crockett, who was executed for arson, March 16, 1836
A.W. Mellon, petitioner, v. commissioner of internal revenue, respondent
Aaron v. Cooper : Little Rock case
Abduction of Juan Francisco Rey : a Narrative of Events from His Own Lips, from the Time He Left Havana, in Company with Villaverde and Fernandez, until His Return to the United States, Embracing a Relation of What Occurred on His First Departure from Havan
Abstract of state trials, held, under Special Commission at Jyepoor, for the trial of the ex-Minister Sunghee Jotha Ram, his brother and son, and other persons implicated in a plot to subvert the local government : resulting in an assault upon the person of Major N. Alves, Agent to the Governor General, and the murder of Mr. Martin Blake, Assistant Agent to ditto: giving a general view of the proceedings of the Special Court before which the principal criminals were arraigned ; with selected portions of the documents produced, the written defences of Sunghees Jotha Ram and Hookum Chund ; a summary of the evidence, translation of several important papers, and extracts from the Calcutta Courier, having reference to the subject
Account at Large, of the Proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, on the 24 of November 1681. In Relation to the Bill of High Treason, Prefer'd against the Earl of Shaftsbury
Account of the Arraignments and Tryals of Col. Richard Kirkby, Capt. John Constable, Capt. Cooper Wade, Capt. Samuel Vincent, and Capt. Christopher Fogg
Account of the Asylum, for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, Near Frankford, Pennsylvania
Account of the Treason and Sedition, Committed by the London Corresponding Society, the Society for Constitutional Information, the Other Societies of London, Sheffield, Norwich, Manchester, Bristol, Coventry, Nottingham, Derby Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle
Account of the murder of the late Mr. William Weare of Lyon's Inn, London, including the circumstances which first led to the discovery of the murder and the detection of the murderers, the depositions taken before the magistrates, the coroner's inquest, the trials of the prisoners and the execution of John Thurtell, at Hertford on Friday the 9th of January 1824, embellished with views of Gill's-hill Cottage, the pond in the garden where the body was concealed of Hill-slough near Elstree, where it was finally deposited and portraits of the prisoners, John Thurtell, Jos. Hunt and Wm. Probert, drawn by Mr. George Lewis with their autographs : illustrated with a ground-plan of Gill's-hill Cottage and garden and a map of the surrounding country
Account of the trial of William Penn, for speaking to an assembly of 300 persons, in Gracechurch Street, London : in which the disgraceful proceedings of the bench, and the manly and independent conduct of the jury, are exhibited; the former as deserving the detestation, and the latter the admiration of mankind
Achilli vs. Newman : Court of Queen's Bench, sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster - before Lord Campbell and a special jury
Act to Incorporate the Western Saving Fund Society
Action for Libel. Report of the Case of Angeli v. Galbraith, as Tried before the Lord Chief Justice at the Kildare Summer Assizes, 1856; and before the Lord Chief Baron in the Court of Exchequer, at the After-sittings, Michaelmas Term, 1856
Adam Partenheimer, respondent, agt. Abram Van Order, appellant
Additional case of Thomas Alexander Lord Lovat in the peerage of the United Kingdom : claiming to be Lord Lovat in the peerage of Scotland
Address Delivered at the Opening of the New Hall of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, on Monday, October 18th, 1847
Address Delivered before the Young Men's Democratic Association, of Philadelphia
Address before the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, November 30th, 1840
Address delivered by the Honorable Isaac N. Mills, of the Westchester County Bar, on September 26th, 1923 : in summing up for the defense to the jury at the trial of Walter S. Ward, upon the charge of murder in the first degree
Address of Hon. Lyman Tremain to the jury on the final trial of Edward S. Stokes : for the murder of James Fisk, Jr., 27th and 28th October, 1873
Address of the Committee of Correspondence of the Jackson Republicans of the state of Delaware to the people of said state
Address of the Democratic State Central Committee to the people of Pennsylvania
Address of the Hon. Wm. B. Mann, district attorney to the jury in the court of "Quarter Sessions," Philadelphia, delivered Monday, April 20th, 1868 : case of the Commonwealth against Tack Brothers, Emil Schalk and John Grierson, indicted for conspiracy and fraud : bail, $50,000
Address to the Jury by Col. John Hallum in Self Defense in the Case of the State of Texas against Him : an Indictment for Shooting a Minister of the Gospel: Together with the Extraordinary Facts and Remarkable Incidents Connected with the Trial and Prosecu
Address to the Jury by Edwin Countryman : in the Case of the People agt. Thomas C. Platt, at the Albany Circuit, January 12, 1888
Address to the Jury by Hon. N.C. Moak, in the Case of the People agt. Thoams C. Platt
Adelina T. Bergholtz, Plaintiff-Respondent, against Ithaca Street Railway Company, Defendant-Appellant. State of New York Appeal Book
Adelina T. Bergholtz, Plaintiff-Respondent, against Ithaca Street Railway Company, Defendent-Appellant. Supreme Court Appeal Book
Administration of Equity Jurisprudence. Caveat Filed February, 1874. In the Case of Lawrence vs. Staigg, In the Supreme Court, of Rhode Island, in Equity
Adventures and Exploits of the Younger Brothers, Missouri's Most Daring Outlaws and Companions of the James Boys
Affaire de Saint-Cyr
Affaire de la Salette : Mademoiselle de Lamerlière contre MM. Déléon et Cartellier demande en 20,000 fr. de dommages-intérêts
Affray at Brownsville, Tex
Affray at Brownsville, Tex., August 13 and 14, 1906; Proceedings of a General Court-Martial Convened at Headquarters Department of Texas San Antonio, Tex., April 15, 1907, in the Case of Capt. Edgar A. Macklin
Alabama Claims : Argument of the United States Delivered to the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva
Alarming developments connected with our courts : the wrong member of Middlesex bar convicted of perjury and the means by which it was accomplised exposed!
Albert G.F. Goersen, Plaintiff in Error, vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Defendant in Error. In Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the County of Philadelphia
Alfred B. Woodworth, and Others, ag'st Edward C. Seymour. The Same ag'st Charles B. Douglass and William B. Douglass
Alfred B. Woodworth, and others, ag'st Edward C. Seymour : the same, ag'st Charles B. Douglass and William B. Douglass
Alleged official misconduct of H. Snowden Marshall
Alum in Baking Powder : the Complete Text of the Trial Examiner's Report upon the Facts, including a Review of Scientific Testimony concerning Alum in Baking Powder and Its Physiological Effects
Amanda Lewis and Others, Respondents, against Person D. Ogden et al., Appellants
Amanda Lewis, and others, appellants, vs. Person D. Ogden and another, respondents
Amendment, Filed May 11, 1883 - D.F.W. Clerk : the Heirs of Henry C. Dallett and John Dallett, Trading as Dallett Brothers vs. The United States; No. 611; Amended Petition
American Bell Telephone Company et al. Complainants, v. American Cushman Telephone Company et al.; Brief for Complainants
American Bell Telephone Company, vs. The Overland Telephone Company of New Jersey, et al.; Brief for Complainants on Motion for Preliminary Injunction, with Order of the Court
American Criminal Trials
American Graphophone Company vs. Edward H. Amet, in the United States Circuit Court
American Graphophone Company vs. Walcutt, Leeds and others : various suits on patent no. 341,214 and " " 341,288 : miscellaneous records and briefs
American criminal trials
American state trials : a collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States, from the beginning of our government to the present day : with notes and annotations
Amos Lawrence, Abbott Lawrence, Joshua H. Wolcott, and John W. Edmonds, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New-York, Defendants in Error : Error Book: [Miscellaneous Court Reports]
An Appeal to common sense and the Constitution, in behalf of the unlimited freedom of public discussion : occasioned by the late trial of Rev. Abner Kneeland, for blasphemy
An account of the Curtis homicide and trials of John E. Poindexter
An account of the arraignments and tryals of Col. Richard Kirkby, Capt. John Constable, Capt. Cooper Wade, Capt. Samuel Vincent, and Capt. Christopher Fogg : for cowardice, neglect of duty, breach of orders, and other crimes committed by them in a fight at sea, commenced the 19th of August, 1702, off of St. Martha in the latitude of ten degrees north, near the main-land of America, between the Honourable John Benbow, Esq., and Admiral Du Casse with four French ships of war : for which Col. Kirkby and Capt. Wade were sentenc'd to be shot to death
An account of the trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland : on a charge of libel against the President of the United States, taken in short hand with a preface, notes, and appendix
An account of the trial of William Brodie and George Smith, before the High Court of Justiciary, on Wednesday the 27th and Thursday the 28th days of August, 1788, for breaking into, and robbing, the General Excise Office of Scotland, on the 5th day of March last : illustrated with notes and anecdotes : to which is added, an appendix, containing several curious papers relative to the trial
An account of the tryal of Richard Lyddel, Esq : at His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas, before the Right Honourable Lord-Chief-Justice Eyre, for carrying on a criminal conversation with the late Lady Abergavenny ; on Monday the 16th of February, 1729/30
An accurate account of the trial of William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten, of Polstead, in Suffolk, which took place at Bury Saint Edmunds, on Thursday and Friday, the 7th and 8th Aug. 1828, before Chief Baron Alexander : with a portrait of the criminal : to which are added, an explanatory preface, and fifty-three of the letters sent by various ladies, in answer to Corder's matrimonial advertisement, inserted in the Morning Herald and Sunday Times of November last, carefully copied from the originals, in the possession of the publisher
An address to the Whig Club : with an essay on the judicial discretion of judges, on fiats, and on bail
An answer to Mr. Jefferson's justification of his conduct in the case of the New Orleans batture
An appeal from the sentence of the Bishop of New York : in behalf of his diocese : founded on the facts and improbabilities appearing on both sides in the late trial
An appeal to professing Christians respecting the attitude of the church in regard to war
An appeal to the people : containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr. of the Ad-------y : observations on those parts of it which were omitted by the writers of the Gazette : and what might be the resons for such omissions : part the first
An appeal to the public, in behalf of Elizabeth Canning : in which the material facts in her story are fairly stated, and shewn to be true on the foundation of evidence
An appeal to the tribunal of public justice : being a concise statement of the facts which led to the extraordinary case of Stockton versus Hopkins
An argument for construing largely the right of an appellee of murder, to insist on trial by battle : and also for abolishing appeals : with an appendix, containing a report of a debate in the House of Commons, on abolishing appeal of murder in the British North American colonies, etc. etc.
An astonishing affair! : the Rev. Samuel Arnold cast and tried for his cruelty, though his cause was advocated in a masterly manner, by the Right Hon. Joseph Almon Clark Pray, the most able and accomplished attorney, who "was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found"
An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder of Maria Marten : with a full development of all the extraordinary circumstances which led to the discovery of her body in the red barn : to which is added the trial of William Corder, taken at large in short hand specially for this work : with an account of his execution, dissection, &c., and many interesting particulars relative to the village of Polstead and its vicinity, the prison correspondence of Corder, and fifty-three letters in answer to his advertisement for a wife
An authentic copy of the minutes of evidence on the trial of John Smith, a missionary, in Demerara : held at the colony house, in George Town, Demerara, on Monday, the 13th day of October, 1823, and 27 following days; on a charge of exciting the negroes to rebellion. Copied verbatim
An authentic report of the Clough case taken by two note takers at the hearing in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, before the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron, the Hon. Baron Sir W.C. Smith, bart., the Hon. Baron Foster on Thursday 21, Friday 22, Thursday 28, Friday 29 and Saturday 30, April, Easter term, 1836 : the evidence carefully compared with the court copy of the depositions and the extracts from the Synod of Ulster records carefully examined with the original mss., the judgment of the court, etc., etc., given in full
An authentic report of the testimony in a cause at issue in the Court of Chancery of the state of New Jersey between Thomas L. Shotwell, complainant and Joseph Hendrickson and Stacy Decow, defendants
An enquiry into and detection of the barbarous murther of the late Earl of Essex, or, A vindication of that noble person from the guilt and infamy of having destroy'd himself
An enquiry into the extent of the power of juries : on trials of indictments or informations, for publishing seditious, or other criminal writings, or libels, extracted from a miscellaneous collection of papers that were published in 1776, intituled, Additional papers concerning the province of Quebec
An essay on crimes & punishments
An essay on crimes and punishments : translated from the Italian ; with a commentary, attributed to Mons. de Voltaire, translated from the French
An essay on the establishment of a chancery jurisdiction in Massachusetts
An exact account of the trial between Sr. William Pritchard, Kt. and alderman of the city of London, plaintiff, and Thomas Papillon, Esq, defendant : in an action upon the case at the sessions of nisi prius holden for the Court of King's Bench at the Guild-Hall in the city of London, on Thursday the 6th of November, 1684, in Michaelmas term, in the 36th year of the reign of King Charles the Second, before Sir George Jefferies, Kt. and Baronet, then Lord Chief Justice of the said Court of King's Bench : to which is added, the matter of fact relating to election of sheriffs, as it was printed in the year 1682
An exact and faithful narrative of the horrid conspiracy of Thomas Knox, William Osborne, and John Lane, to invalidate the testimonies of Dr. Titus Oates, and Mr. William Bedlow by charging them with a malicious contrivance against the E. of Danby, and the said Dr. Oates with an attempt of sodomy : wherein are exemplified from the originals I. Four forged letters dictated by Thomas Knox, II. Five false informations, one paper of memorials, and one other information against Dr. Oates for sodomy, forged by Knox in the names of Lane and Osborne, III. The informations, depositions, examinations, and confessions of the said Knox, Osborne, and Lane, taken upon oath before Sir William Waller and Edmund Warcup, Esq., IV. An account of some depositions taken before the Lords Committees of Secresie, relating thereunto, V. The breviates of the councel for the King at the trials of the said Knox and Lane, Nov. 25, 1679, wherein full satisfaction is given to the world of the whole cause, by the particular evidences of the witnesses in behalf of the King
An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment, arraignment, trial, and judgment (according to law) of twenty nine regicides, the murtherers of His late Sacred Majesty of most glorious memory : begun at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660 : and continued (at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley) until Friday, the nineteenth of the same moneth : together with a summary of the dark, and horrid decrees of those caballists, preparatory to that hellish fact : exposed to view for the reader's satisfaction, and information of posterity
An examen of witches : drawn from various trials of many of this sect in the district of Saint Oyan de Joux, commonly known as Saint Claude, in the county of Burgundy, including the procedure necessary to a judge in trials for witchcraft
An historical sketch of slavery from the earliest periods
An inquiry into the state of mind of W.F. Windham, Esq., of Fellbrigg Hall, Norfolk, before Samuel Warren, Esq., Q.C. and a special jury, upon the petition of General Windham, C.B., etc., the uncle of the alleged lunatic and other members of the family at Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, Westminster, commencing December 16, 1861
An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots : And an examination of the histories of Dr Robertson and Mr Hume, with respect to that evidence
An introduction to the defence of Abner Kneeland, charged with blasphemy, before the Municipal Court, in Boston, Mass., at the January term, in 1834
An introduction to the law relative to trials at nisi prius
An introduction to the law relative to trials at nisi prius : the fifth edition, with additions and corrections. By Francis Buller
An official account of the death of the Queen : with a portrait taken from life : a memoir of her early life, and many interesting anecdotes
An official report of the trials of sundry Negroes charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection in the state of South-Carolina : preceded by an introduction and narrative and, in an appendix, a report of the trials of four white persons on indictments for attempting to excite the slaves to insurrection
An unparalled [sic] law case : trial between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Benjamin Rider
Anarchy and Anarchists. A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe. Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed. The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy, and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators
Andreana : Containing the Trial, Execution and Various Matter Connected with the History of Major John Andre, Adjutant General of the British Army in America, A.D. 1780
Andrew J. Kelley and Others, Plaintiffs in Error, against The People of the State of New York, Defendants in Error. Error Book
Andrew Kean, Plaintiff and Respondent, against the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Albany, Defendant and Appellant : Case and Exceptions
Angier v. Angier
Anna N. Dwight, Orlow W. Chapman and George F. Lyon, as Executrix and Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Walton Dwight, Deceased, Respondents, against the Germania Life Insurance Company, Appellant
Annals of Miles Ancestry in Pennsylvania and Story of a Forged Will
Annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors Register
Annals of fashionable gallantry, a collection of remarkable trials for crim. con., divorce, adultery, seduction, cruelty, &c. : the whole forming a complete history of the private life and amours of many characters in the most elevated sphere, interspersed with many curious anecdotes of supreme bon ton
Annesley Case
Anonymous letter to Hon. William M. Springer : report
Answer of the State Board of Charities to the Report Dated October 25, 1916 of Commissioner Charles H. Strong
Answer to the Vindicatory Address and Appeal of Lieutenant Weaver to the Public, from the Opinion of Chancellor Sanford, in the Case of Weaver against Whitney, Tibbits and Hoyt
Antipatriotism : address of Gustave Herve at the close of his trial for anti-militarist activity, before the jury of La Seine, December, 1905.
Appeal from the Sentence of the Bishop of New York; in Behalf of His Diocese. Founded on the Facts and Improbabilities Appearing on Both Sides in the Late Trial
Appeal to Professing Christians Respecting the Attitude of the Church in Regard to War
Appeal to the Jockey Club; or, a True Narrative of the Late Affair, between Mr. Fitz-Gerald and Mr. Walker
Appeal to the President of the United States for a re examination of the proceedings of the general court martial in his case
Arbitration proceedings to determine the domicil of Isabel Anderson for death tax purposes
Are the Southern Pivateersmen Pirates : Letter to the Hon. Ira Harris, United States Senator
Argument before the Hon. James S. Morsell, assistant judge of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia : in the matter of the appeal of John North from the decision of Hon. Philip F. Thomas, Commissioner of Patents, awarding priority of invention to Cyrus Chambers, Jr. for certain improvements in paper-folding machinery
Argument before the Hon. S. F. Phillips, Solicitor-General of the U.S. on the Occasion of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company
Argument by Benjamin Harris Brewster : on the subject of the ordinance of submission of the Constitutional Convention
Argument by Elias P. Smithers, Esq. Chairman of the Committee on Law of Common Council, Filed with the Report of Said Committee on the Question of Impeachment. Containing a Discussion of the Power of Municipal Corporations to Remove Their Officers
Argument by N.P. Chipman, Esq., in the trial of Col. Edmund E. Paulding, paymaster U.S.A. : before a court-martial convened by order of the War Department, June 1866
Argument for Construing Largely the Right of an Appellee of Murder, to Insist on Trial by Battle; and Also for Abolishing Appeals : with an Appendix, Containing a Report of a Debate in the House of Commons, on Abolishing Appeal of Murder in the British Nort
Argument in Defence [sic] of Edward T. Grayson : Before a Navy General Court Martial, Convened at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, March 23d, 1863
Argument in Defence of William Kenny, before a Naval General Court Martial Convened at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. June, 1863
Argument in the Court of Appeals, of the State of New York, in the Rose Will Case on Behalf of the Rose Beneficent Association
Argument in the Stokes will case : on behalf of Mrs. Dora Stokes Dale, contestant, before Hon. Daniel G. Rollins, surrogate, delivered February 11th, 12th and 13th, 1884
Argument in the case of Miller vs. United States
Argument of A.G. Riddle, Esq., of Cleveland, Delivered at the Court House in Jefferson, Ohio, on the 26th and 27th of November, 1858, in the Case of the State of Ohio vs. Hiram Cole, Tried for Poisoning His Wife on the 9th of Sept., 1857
Argument of Charles B. Waite, before the Committee of Elections of the House of Reps., March 25th-27th, 1868, in the Case of William M'Grorty vs. Wm. H. Hooper, Sitting Delegate from the Territory of Utah
Argument of Charles G. Loring, Esq. on behalf of the Eastern Rail-Road Company, at a Hearing on the Petitions of David Pingree and Others, and W.J. Valentine and Others, before the Rail-Road Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature
Argument of Clarence Darrow in Case of the Communist Labor Party in the Criminal Court, Chicago
Argument of Edward Owen Parry, One of the Counsel for the Heirs of Stephen Girard, in the Case of the City of Philadelphia vs. Augustus Girard, et al. In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, May 22d, 1863
Argument of F. Carroll Brewster, Esq. on behalf of William B.N. Cozens : delivered at Philadelphia, June 12th, 1865 : before a court martial composed of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, Lt. Col. J.M. Thompson, Lt. Col. G.W. Thompson, Lt. Col. P.B. Stilson, Lt. Col. Francis S. Keese, Lt. Col. G. Mallery, Capt. J.H. Platt, and Col. J.A. Foster, Judge Advocate
Argument of Franklin B. Gowen, Esq., of counsel for the Commonwealth in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Thomas Munley, indicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill County, Pa., for the murder of Thomas Sanger, a mining boss at Raven Run, on September 1st, 1875
Argument of George W. Wingate against the legality of the arrests made by commissioner John I. Davenport, of persons naturalized in 1868 : with the opinion of Hon. Samuel Blatchford, declaring them unlawful
Argument of Henry L. Clinton, Esq., on Behalf of the Contestants, in the Heresey Will Case, before the Surrogate of the County of New York, Delivered September 25th, 1875
Argument of Henry L. Clinton, Esq., on Behalf of the Contestants, in the Nancy Smith Will Case, before the Surrogate of the County of Suffolk, State of New York. September, 1875
Argument of Henry L. Clinton, Esq., on the Part of the Contestants, in the Rollwagen Will Case. Before the Surrogate of the County of New York, Delivered March 31st and April 1st, 1874
Argument of Hon. D.T. Corbin in the trial of the Ku-Klux : before the United States Circuit Court. November term, 1871, held at Columbia, South Carolina

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