World trials library

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"I'm Alone" case : diplomatic correspondence between the governments of the United States and Canada concerning the sinking of the "I'm Alone," together with an opinion of Attorney General William D. Mitchell and the conventions of January 23 and June 6, 1924, for the prevention of smuggling of intoxicating liquors
"Mr. Lee's plan-- March 29, 1777" : the treason of Charles Lee, Major General, second in command in the American army of the revolution
"The Chesapeake" : the case of David Collins, et al., prisoners arrested under the provisions of the Imperial Act, 6 & 7 Vic., cap. 76 on a charge of piracy, investigated before Humphrey T. Gilbert, Esq., police magistrate of the city of Saint John : and the arguments on the return to the order of habeas corpus before His Honor, Mr. Justice Ritchie, with his decision
"Thou shalt do no murder"
13 Communists speak to the court
1913 Oct. term, no. 217 : Anna Hawley, vs. Joseph Walker, constable, etc. : to replace pages 1 to 18 in brief filed by Louis D. Brandeis, counsel for defendant in error
A book of remarkable criminals
A breach of impunity : the trial for the murder of Jesuits in El Salvador
A brief account of the designs which the Papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, occasioned by his commitment, July 2, 1681
A brief enquiry into the true nature and character of our federal government
A brief for the trial of civil issues before a jury
A brief for the trial of civil issues before a jury
A brief for the trial of civil issues before a jury
A brief for the trial of civil issues before a jury
A brief for the trial of criminal cases
A brief for the trial of criminal cases
A brief history of the Pittsburgh forgery case
A brief memoir of the life of the Honourable Colonel Algernon Sidney : with a short account of his trial, in the Court of King's Bench, November 7, 1683 : to which is added, a description of Mr. F.P. Stephanoff's painting of that celebrated event : intended to accompany Mr. John Charles Bromley's engraving, dedicated by permission to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire
A brief narrative of the case and trial of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New York weekly journal
A brief on the modes of proving the facts most frequently in issue or collaterally in question on the trial of civil or criminal cases
A brief on the modes of proving the facts most frequently in issue or collaterally in question on the trial of civil or criminal cases
A brief on the modes of proving the facts most frequently in issue or collaterally in question on the trial of civil or criminal cases
A brief on the modes of proving the facts most frequently in issue, or collaterally in question, on the trial of civil or criminal cases
A brief sketch of the occurrences on board the brig Crawford on her voyage from Matanzas to New-York : together with an account of the trial of the three Spaniards, Jose Hilario Casares, Felix Barbeito, and Jose Morando, in the Circuit Court of Richmond before Chief Justice Marshall, for piracy and murder committed on board said brig : with other circumstances calculated to illustrate those transactions
A brief summary of the evidence in the case of Samuel Darling Haynes, applicant for pardon : and a partial list of persons who advocate the pardon
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 case on appeal -- a judge's view
A change in direction for Seoul? : the impeachment of South Korea's president
A charge delivered to the grand jury for the County of Essex : at the Supreme Judicial Court, held at Ipswich, May term, 1832
A charge to the grand jury of the county of Suffolk for the commonweath of Massachusetts, at the opening of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, on the first Monday of December, A.D. 1831
A charge to the grand jury of the county of Suffolk for the commonweath of Massachusetts, at the opening of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, on the first Monday of December, A.D. 1832
A charge to the grand jury of the county of Suffolk, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the opening of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, on the first Monday of December, A.D. 1834
A chronological history of the Boston watch and police, from 1631 to 1865, together with the recollections of a Boston police office, or, Boston by daylight and gaslight, from the diary of an officer fifteen years in the service
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 : 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 civil action : from pleadings to opening of trial
A civil action : the trial
A civil correction of a sawcy impudent pamphlet, lately published, entitled, A brief account of the designs which the Papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, &c
A clear state of the case of Elizabeth Canning : who hath sworn that she was robbed and almost starved to death by a gang of gipsies and other villains in January last, for which one Mary Squires now lies under sentence of death
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536 to 1784
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536, to 1784
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 remarkable and interesting criminal trials, actions at law, &c. : to which is prefixed, an essay on reprieve and pardon, and biographical sketches of John Lord Eldon and Mr. Mingay
A collection of remarkable and interesting criminal trials, actions at law, &c. : to which is prefixed, an essay on reprieve and pardon, and biographical sketches of John Lord Eldon and Mr. Mingay
A collection of reports of celebrated trials, civil and criminal
A collection of state-trials, and proceedings, upon high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours, from the reign of Queen Anne, to the present time : with an alphabetical table, Volume IX
A collection of the charges, opinions, and sentences of general courts martial : as published by authority : from the year 1795 to the present time : intended to serve as an appendix to Tytler's Treatise on military law, and forming a book of cases and references : with a copious index : to which are added introductory observations respecting the power of the Crown over all officers belonging to the British army, and persons officially connected with the receipt and distribution of military pay and allowances
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 collection of the most remarkable and interesting trials : particularly of those persons who have forfeited their lives to the injured laws of their country : in which the most remarkable of the state trials will be included, with the defence and behaviour of the criminals, before and after condemnation : intended not only to point out the crimes of the great, which are at present but little farther known than their own families, but also those of inferior criminals, who only are handed down as examples to posterity
A collection of the most remarkable trials of persons for high-treason, murder, rapes, heresy, bigamy, burglary, and other crimes and misdemeanors
A collection of tracts, concerning the present state of Ireland : with respect to its riches, revenue, trade and manufactures
A collection of useful, interesting, and remarkable events : original and selected, from ancient and modern authorities
A colored man's reminiscences of James Madison
A communication from the Hon. Samuel Sewall, Esq. and the Hon. Nathan Dane, Esq. : accompanied with several bills for the regulation of the State Prison, and an alteration of the criminal laws of the Commonwealth
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 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 1871 inclusive ; with an appendix of the election laws of the state of New York
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 compleat collection of state-tryals and proceedings upon impeachments for high treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours : from the reign of King Henry the Fourth, to the end of the reign of Queen Anne : in four volumes, with an exact alphabetical table to the whole
A compleat history of the whole proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain against Dr. Henry Sacheverell : with his tryal before the House of Peers : for high crimes and misdemeanors, the reasons of those Lords that enter'd their protests, and the speeches of several Lords before judgment was given
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 : with two alphabetical tables to the whole
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 reign of King George II : 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 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 Dr. E.W. Pritchard, for the alleged poisoning of his wife and mother-in-law
A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeline Smith : for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier
A complete synopsis of the great pew case : James Johnston (plaintiff), appellant and the minister and trustees of St. Andrew's Church, Montreal (defendants) respondents : from the institution to the final decree of the Supremem Court of Canada
A concise history of the great trial of the Chicago anarchists in 1886
A condensed report of the trial of James Albert Trefethen and William H. Smith for the murder of Deltena J. Davis : in the Superior Court of Massachusetts
A condensed statement of the evidence in the case, Mary Hannity vs. William O'Reilly, adm'r. : prepared for use on the hearing of the motion for a new trial, now pending before the Supreme Court of the state of Rhode Island
A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for sorcery in 1324
A correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others, at Harrisburgh, June Oyer and Terminer, 1798 : for the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials
A correct journal of the conduct of the two unfortunate prisoners, Sinclair & Johnson, from the time of their conviction until their execution, with a biographical sketch of their lives, as delivered by themselves, the day previous to which they were to be executed, with the dying declarations of the culprits, under their own signatures, and an interesting letter from Johnson to the woman with whom he lived, and who was supposed to be his wife
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 report of the trial of James Watson, Senior for high treason : before the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, June 9, 1817, and following days : embellished with striking likenesses of Watson, Thistlewood, Preston, and Hooper
A correct report of the trial of Josef Perez for piracy, committed on board the schooner Bee, of Charleston, S.C. : before the Circuit Court of the United Sates for the Southern District of New-York : on Tuesday, Sept. 9th, 1823
A correct report of the trial of William Holden, James Ashcroft, the elder, James Ashcroft, the younger, David Ashcroft, and James Robinson : for the murder of Margaret Marsden and Hannah Partington, and for robbery in the dwelling-house of Mr. Thos. Littlewood, at Pendleton : before Sir Richard Richards, Knight, Lord Chief Baron of His Majestry's Court of Exchequer, at Lancaster assizes, on Friday, the fifth of September, 1817
A correct statement and review of the trial of Joseph T. Buckingham for an alledged libel of the Rev. John N. Maffit : before the Hon. Josiah Quincy, judge of the Municipal Court, Dec. 6, 1822
A correct statement of the whole preliminary controversy between Tho. O. Selfridge and Benj. Austin : also a brief account of the catastrophe in State Street, Boston, on the 4th August, 1806 : with some remarks
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 in abatement of judgment for an alleged libel in the story entitled "Inquire at Amos Giles' distillery" : addressed to the Hon. Chief Justice Shaw, at the session of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held in Salem, Dec. 4, 1835
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 defence of the ladies, and others, against the bishop of Maryland, and his aids
A defence of the late Lord Russel's innocency : by way of answer or confutation of a libellous pamphlet intituled, An antidote against poyson : with two letters of the author of this book upon the subject of his Lordship's tryal ; together with an Argument in the great case concerning elections of Members to Parliament, between Sr Samuel Barnardiston, bar., plaintiff, and Sr Will. Soames, sheriff of Suffolk, defend', in the Court of Kings-Bench, in an action upon the case, and afterwards by error sued in the Exchequer-Chamber
A defensive declaration of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn : against the unjust sentence of his banishment, by the late Parliament of England : directed in an epistle from his house in Bridges in Flanders, May 14. 1653 : (Dutch or new still, or the 4 of May 1653, English or old stile) to his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell, and the rest of the officers of his Army, commonly sitting in White-hall in councel, managing the present affairs of England, &c. : unto which is annexed, an additional appendix directed from the said Leut. Col. John Lilburn, to his Excellency and his officers, occasioned by his present imprisonment in Newgate : and some groundless scandals, for being an agent of the present King, cast upon him by some great persons at White-hall, upon the delivery of his third address (to the counsel of State, by his wife and several other of his friends) dated from his captivity in Newgate the 20 of June 1653
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 digest of the acts of Assembly relative to the First School District of the state of Pennsylvania
A discourse delivered March 16, 1817, the Sabbath after the execution of Henry Phillips Stonehewer Davis, for the murder of Gaspard Denegri
A dutiful letter : to which is adjoyn'd, another : to prove non-jurors no schismaticks
A faithful narrative of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Cross : with the trial, sentence, & confession of John Joyce & Peter Mathias who were executed near Philadelphia on Monday, 14 March, 1808
A faithful report of the trial of Hurdy Gurdy : tried and convicted of a seditious libel in the court of King's Bench, on the testimony of French Horn, the approver : with the arguments of counsel, and the charge of the learned chief justice to the jury
A faithful report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Arcularius, and William Coleman, gent. etc. : being an action for a libel : held at the sittings before his hon. Judge Livingston, on the third of January, 1807 : containing the arguments of counsel and decisions of the court, upon the points of law and evidence which arose : also, the summing up of the counsel and the charge of the judge at full length
A faithful report of the trial of the proprietors of the Northern Star : at the Bar of the Court of King's-Bench, on the twenty-eighth of May, 1794, on an information, filed ex-officio, by the Attorney General : for the insertion of a publication of the Irish Jacobins of Belfast, on the fifteenth of December, 1792
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 for riot before the Mayor's Court of Philadelphia on the 13th of October, 1831, arising out of a Protestant procession on the 12th of July, and in which the contending parties were Protestants and Roman Catholics : including the indictments, examination of witnesses, speeches of counsel, recorder's charge, verdict and sentences : taken in short-hand during the trial
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 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 and authentic report of the testimony on the trial of Matt. F. Ward : certified to be correct by Thomas D. Brown, clerk of Hardin Circuit Court; Wm. Alexander, former commonwealth attorney for the Hardin district; and Judge Alex. Walker, of New Orleans ; with the speeches of Gov. Crittenden, Gov. Helm, T.F. Marshall, and Nathaniel Wolfe, and the reply of Alfred Allen, esq., attorney for the commonwealth
A full and circumstantial account of the trial of the Rev. Doctor Dodd : at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Saturday the 22d of February, 1777, before the Hon. Baron Perryn, for forging a bond amounting to four thousand two hundred pounds, purporting to be the bond of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield : wherein is accurately related, the arguments of the council on various points of law, a full account of the examination of the witnesses, the prisoner's defence, &c. : with original remarks on the trial
A full and correct report of the trial of Sir Home Popham : including the whole of the discussions which took place between that officer and Mr. Jervis, the counsel for the admiralty : and also the observations of the several members of the court : together with a preface, containing a further vindication of Sir Home Popham, particularly against certain attacks made upon him since the trial : and an appendix, in which are several important documents, which have never been published : and among others an interesting letter from Lord Grenville to Sir Home Popham
A full and faithful report of the proceedings in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, in the case of the Honorable Mr. Justice Johnson : containing the arguments of counsel, and the opinions delivered from the bench, as taken from original documents : with an appendix, comprising the act of the 44th Geo. III. c. 92; - the writ of habeas corpus, and return thereto; - copies of letters written by persons of high rank in the Irish administration; - the several affidavits made in the case; - an authentic report of the opinion delivered in the Court of King's Bench, on Mr. Justice Johnson's case, by the Hon. Mr. Justice Day; and a postscript
A full and impartial statement of all the circumstances which led to the murder of Melzar Gardner, late editor of the Chronicle and Old Dominion : comprising all the newspaper publications, proceedings of public meetings, &c., from the origin of the dispute to Its fatal termination : with a report of the proceedings of the examination of Mordecai Cooke, Jr
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 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 all the proceedings on the trial of the Rev. William Jackson at the bar of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, Ireland, on an indictment for high treason
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 case of Mastin v. Escott, clerk, for refusing to bury an infant baptized by a Wesleyan minister : containing all the arguments on both sides and the judgment delivered by the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Jenner, in the Arches Court of Canterbury, May 8th, 1841 : with an appendix of documents
A full report of the case of Stacy Decow and Joseph Hendrickson vs. Thomas L. Shotwell : decided at a special term of the New Jersey Court of Appeals held at Trenton in July and August, eighteen hundred and thirty-three : embracing the decision of the Court of Chancery, from which the appeal was made, the arguments of the counsel of each side, and the final decision of the Court of Appeals
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 highly interesting breach of promise case : George G. Barnard, vs. John J. Gaul, and Mary H., his wife : tried before Ogden Edwards, esquire, one of the circuit judges of the Supreme Court, at the City Hall of New York, on the 8th, 9th and 10th days of July, 1835 : containing the whole of the correspondence between the plaintiff and Mrs. Gaul, together with the charge of the judge. and the eloquent speeches of the counsel on both sides
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 proceedings in the matter of the bench and bar of North Carolina
A full report of the proceedings on the second trial, in the cause Kerslake against Sage and others, directors of the Westminister Life Insurance Office : including the evidence and opinions of Drs. Carmichael Smith, Crichton, Willich, Reynolds, Latham, and Baline, on cases of pulmonary consumption
A full report of the trial and conviction of the Reverend Washington Van Zandt : of the Episcopal Church, Rochester, N.Y., for the seduction of Miss Sophia Murdock (sixteen years of age), a member of his church : to which is added the speech of Hon. Mark H. Sibley, of Canandaigua, for the defence, of Henry R. Selden of Clarkson, and Judge Sampson of Rochester, for the prosecution together with Judge Dayton's charge, of Lockport, to the jury
A full report of the trial of Capt. William H. Tower : charged with feloniously scuttling the barque Brothers' Pride, of Saint Johns, 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, and 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 of the trial of Orrin Woodford for the murder of his wife, Diana Woodford at Avon, Conn., July 22d, 1845 : at the January term of the Superior Court, holden at Hartford, 1846, including the arguments of counsel, and accompanied by plans of the house and premises, where the homicide was committed together with an accurate portrait of the prisoner
A full report of the trials of the Bristol rioters before the special commission appointed to deliver the gaol of this city in January 1832 : with the sentences & executions consequent thereon : also, a report of the proceedings of the court martial appointed to investigate the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, inspecting field officer of the Bristol district : with full particulars of the suicide of that unfortunate officer and the inquest held on his body
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 general history of executions for the year, 1730 : containing the lives, actions, and dying speeches, of sixty notorious malefactors, executed at Tyburn, and elsewhere : to which is added a list of all the persons indicted and tried at the Old Bailey, during the said year : with the judgment of the court respectively passed upon each
A general history of the lives, trials, and executions of all the royal and noble personages, that have suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for high treason, or other crimes : from the accession of Henry VIII to the throne of England, down to the present time : with a circumstantial narrative of their behaviour during confinement, and at the place of execution : to which is added, a particular account of the rebellions in England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the two last centuries
A generation on trial : U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss
A genuine narrative of the lives, adventures, escapes, and trial, of Joseph and George Weston : convicted July 6, 1782, of capital crimes : with several original letters of clergymen
A genuine report of the two trials of Richard Carlile, for the republication of Thomas Paine's Age of reason and Palmer's Principles of nature : in which are faithfully given the whole of the evidence, with copies of the various extracts read, &c. by the defendant in his defence, a list of the jury, speeches of the attorney-general, the judge's remarks, charge to the jury, &c. &c.
A geographical history of the state of New York : embracing its history, government, physical features, climate, geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, education, internal improvements, &c., with a separate map of each county, the whole forming a complete history of the state
A glance at the Italian Inquisition : a sketch of Pietro Carnesecchi : his trial before the supreme court of the papal inquisition in Rome, and his martyrdom in 1566
A guide to magistrates : with practical forms for the discharge of their duties out of court : to which are added, precedents for the use of prosecutors, sheriffs, coroners, constables, escheators, clerks, &c., adapted to the new Code of Virginia
A history of diplomacy in the international development of Europe
A history of the Jamaica case : founded upon official or authentic documents and containing an account of the debates in Parliament and the criminal prosecutions arising out of the case
A history of the Northern Securities case
A history of the Pocasset tragedy : with the three sermons preached in New Bedford
A history of the detection, conviction, life and designs of John A. Murel, the great western land pirate : together with his system of villainy, and plan of exciting a Negro rebellion : and a catalogue of the names of four hundred and fifty-five of his Mystic Clan fellows and followers, and their efforts for the destruction of Virgil A. Stewart, the young man who detected him : to which is added a biographical sketch of Mr. Virgil A. Stewart
A history of the feud between the Hill and Evans parties of Garrard County, Ky. : the most exciting tragedy ever enacted on the bloody grounds of Kentucky
A history of the gaming houses and gamesters of the metropolis
A history of the libel suit of Clarence H. Venner against August Belmont : how a plaintiff who had been called a practical blackmailer discontinued his suit for libel when confronted with an order for his examination as to the truth of the charge
A history of the life and trials of Thomas McGehean, who was charged with the shooting and killing of Thomas S. Myers, in the city of Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, on the evening of the 24th of December, 1870 : biographical sketch of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham : character and antecedents of the lawless organizers of the Indignation Meetings of Hamilton, et cetera : the notorious Whiskey Ring of Southern Ohio
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 horse story
A just reproof to Haberdashers-Hall, or, An epistle
A kaleidoscope of justice : containing authentic accounts of trial scenes from all times and climes
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 clergyman to Miss Mary Blandy, now a prisoner in Oxford Castle, with her answer thereto : as also Miss Blandy's own narrative of the crime for which she is condemn'd to die ; the original copy of this letter in Miss Blandy's own hand-writing, for the satisfaction of the public, is left with the publisher in London
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 Lady Creswell to Madam C. the midwife, on the publishing her late vindication, &c. : also, A whip for impudence, or, A lashing repartee to the snarling midwifes matchless rogue, being an answer to the rayling libel
A letter of condolence to His Most Gracious Majesty on the death of his royal consort
A letter to Her Majesty the British Queen : with letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg and Sir George Arthur : added to which is an appendix embracing a report of the testimony taken on the trial of the writer by a court martial, at Toronto in Upper Canada
A letter to His Excellency the lord lieutenant of Ireland : on the judgment of the high court of delegates in the case of Talbot v. Talbot
A letter to John Pitt Taylor, Esq. : in answer to his letter in the "Times", of the 17th of November, on the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice in the case of Reg. v. Bedingfield
A letter to Sir John Nicholl, official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, &c. : on his late decision in the ecclesiastical court, against a clergyman, for refusing to bury the child of a dissenter : with a preface most humbly addressed to the most reverend and right reverend the archbishops and bishops of the Church of England
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 Honorable the Lord Brougham and Vaux, &c. &c. &c. on the late decision of the Earldom of Devon
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 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 list of Tories who took part with Great Britain in the Revolutionary War and were attainted of high treason : commonly called the black list
A list of some of the benevolent institutions of the city of Philadelphia, and their legal titles : together with a form of devise and request to them
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 manual of maritime law : consisting of a treatise on ships and freight and a treatise on insurance
A minute and correct account of the trial of Lucian Hall, Bethuel Roberts and William Bell, for murder : 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, addresses 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 narative of the treatment Coll. Bayard received from the time that sentence was passed against him to the time of his giving that petition which the Lieut. Governour & Council caused to be printed and published in justification of their proceedings against him
A narrative of facts which led to the presentment of the Rt. Rev. Benj. T. Onderdonk, bishop of New-York
A narrative of facts, relating to a prosecution for high treason : including the address to the jury, which the court refused to hear, with letters to the Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice Eyre, Mr. Serjeant Adair, the Honourable Thomas Erskine, and Vicary Gibbs Esq., and the defence the author had prepared, if he had been brought to trial
A narrative of the Bristol riots, on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of October, 1831 : consequent on the arrival of the recorder, Sir C. Wetherell, to open the commission of assize : with full particulars of the burning of Bridewell - the gaol - the toll-houses - Gloucester County Prison - the bishop's palace - the Mansion house - custom house - excise office - and nearly fifty houses in Queen-square
A narrative of the case of the Marchioness of Westmeath
A narrative of the conspiracy for the forcible abduction of Miss Maria Glenn : containing an account of the personations of the young lady and the proofs of her innocence
A narrative of the cruelties inflicted by Elizabeth Brownrigg, on her apprentice girls Mary Clifford, Mary Mitchell, and Mary Jones, whom she cruelly whipped, starved and murdered : with an account of her execution : also, The life, trial, and behaviour of Catharine Hayes who was burnt alive for the inhuman murder of her husband : also the trial of Thomas Billings and Thomas Wood, who were her accomplices
A narrative of the depositions of Robert Jenison Esq. : with other material evidences, plainly proving that Mr. William Ireland, lately executed for high treason, was in London the nineteenth of August, 1678, notwithstanding his confident denial thereof both at his tryal and execution
A narrative of the facts and circumstances relating to the kidnaping and murder of William Morgan : and of the attempt to carry off David C. Miller and to burn or destroy the printing-office of the latter for the purpose of preventing the printing and publishing of a book entitled "Illustrations of Masonry" : prepared under the direction of several committee appointed at meetings of the citizens of the counties of Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Monroe, and Niagara, in the state of New York : containing most of the depositions and other documents to substantiate the statements made, and disclosing many particulars of the transactions : Batavia : Printed by D. C. Miller, under the direction of the Committees, 1827 : also the supplementary report of the Committee, containing the report of the coroner's inquest on the body of Wm. Morgan, etc
A narrative of the horrid murder & piracy committed on board the schooner Eliza of Philadelphia on the high seas by three foreigners, who were tried before the Circuit Court of the United States on Monday, the 21st April, 1800 : together with an account of the surprizing recapture of the said schooner
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
A narrative of the robbery of the Nantucket Bank
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 new abridgement and critical review of the state trials : wherein are inserted several trials not in any other collection. Also, some trials that were taken in haste and scarce intelligible, are brought into regular order; and many deficiencies throughout the whole supply'd. Likewise, remarks are made on each trial, shewing what the law in criminal cases anciently was; how it has been altered, and stands at this day. Together with impartial memoirs of the times and characters of the sufferers. To which is added, a compleat alphabetical index, of the names of the prisoners tried, the times when, their crimes, and their punishment
A notable lawsuit
A notable libel case : the criminal prosecution of Theodore Lyman, Jr. by Daniel Webster in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, November term 1828
A particular charge or impeachment in the name of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the army under his command : against Denzill Hollis Esquire, Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir William Waller, Sir John Maynard, Knights, Major Generall Massie, John Glynne, Esquire, Recorder of London, Walter Long, Esquire, Col. Edward Harley, and Anthony Nicoll, Esquire, members of the Honorable House of Commons : by the appointment of his Excel. Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Councell of Warre : signed John Rushworth Secre
A plain state of facts, or, The justice and propriety of a late verdict impartially considered : in a letter to Sir Alexander Leith, Bart
A plea for religious liberty and the rights of conscience : an argument delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, April 28, 1886, in three cases of Lorenzo Snow, plaintiff in error, v. the United States, on writs of error to the Supreme Court of Utah Territory
A pocket code of the rules of evidence in trials at law
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, Esquire, President of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
A practical treatise and observations on trial by jury in civil causes : as now incorporated with the jurisdiction of the Court of Session : with an appendix
A practical treatise on the authority and duties of trial justices, district, police, and municipal courts, in criminal cases : with forms in criminal proceedings, and precedents of complaints, indictments, and special pleas
A practical treatise on the criminal law : with comprehensive notes on each particular offence, the process, indictment, plea, defence, evidence, trial, verdict, judgment, and punishment
A practical treatise on the law of slavery : being a compilation of all the decisions made on that subject in the several courts of the United States and state courts, with copious notes and references to the statutes and other authorities, systematically arranged
A practical treatise on the settling of evidence for trials at nisi prius : and on the preparing and arranging the necessary proofs
A protest against the Supreme Court of Illinois : and also against its legal and moral doctrine as expressed in and illustrated in connection with the case of Edward C. Hegeler vs. the First National Bank of Peru : reported in Illinois Report, Vol. 129, page 157
A real criminal case : a simple and understandable story of what happens from an arrest to a final judgment, every stage of the trial depicted in graphic charts, accurate forms for every step
A refutation of Sir Crisp Gascoyne's account of his conduct in the cases of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires
A refutation of the misstatements contained in a pamphlet recently issued by W. Darrach, M.D., and John Wiltbank, M.D., in reference to the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College
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 by the select vestry of the church to the rector of the parish : with appendices, containing opinions of Canadian counsel and evidence of the chief cathedral authorities in England, relative to ecclesiastical law and usage in England and Canada
A report from the Lords committees to whom the report and original papers delivered by the House of Commons at several conferences were referred, and who were impowered by the House of Lords to examine Christopher Layer and such other persons as they from time to time should think proper, and to whom several informations and papers laid before the House by His Majesty's command relating to the conspiracy mentioned in His Majesty's speech at the opening of this Parliament, to be carrying on against his person and government were referred : which report was made by His Grace the Duke of Dorset, on Tuesday, the twenty third of April, 1723 : together with the appendix containing examinations, letters and other papers referred to in the said report : as also the resolution of the House thereupon and the thanks given to the Lords Committees by the Lord Chancellor by order of the House
A report of a case decided in the District Court of the United States, for the District of Massachusetts, March term, 1829, respecting the right of the United States to property found derelict on the high seas
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 M, DCCCXXIX : including those which arose out of the occurrences at Borrisokane, on the 26th and 28th of July, 1829
A report of some proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases : to which are added discourses upon a few branches of the crown law
A report of some proceedings on the commission for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746, in the county of Surry : and of other crown cases : to which are added discourses upon a few branches of the crown law
A report of some proceedings on the commission for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746, in the county of Surry and of other crown cases : to which are added discourses upon a few branches of the crown law
A report of the arguments and judgment upon the demurrer, in the case of Henry Edmund Taffe [sic], Esq., against the Right Hon. Wm. Downes, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland : in Trinity, Michaelmas, and Hilary terms, 1812 & 1813, in the Court of Common Pleas, Ireland
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 Hunter against Martin, decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia : with the speeches, at length, of Leigh, Williams, Wirt, Nicholas, and Hay and the opinions of all the judges, together with the resolutions of the Supreme Court of the United States on a writ of error in the same case
A report of the case of Small against Attwood, decided in the Court of Exchequer : with the arguments of counsel, and the two judgments of Lord Lyndhurst
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 King against Bebb and others, assignees of Castell and Powell, bankrupts, on an extent : with explanatory notes, and an appendix of some cases and records in extents which have not been before printed
A report of the case of the King v. Westwood : with a preliminary digest of the authorities on the points of corporation law therein discussed and referred to
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 ecclesiastical courts, and the Queen's Bench
A report of the conspiracy cases, lately decided at Belle Air, Harford County, Maryland
A report of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott vs. John F. A. Sandford, December term, 1856
A report of the evidence and points of law, arising in the trial of John Francis Knapp, for the murder of Joseph White, Esquire : before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : together with the charge of His Honor Chief Justice Parker to the grand jury at the opening of the court
A report of the examination of David Gibbs, Fanny Leach, and Eliza P. Burdick, for the alledged murder of Sally Burdick, at Coventry, R.I., on the 18th Feb. 1833 : from minutes taken at the examination and published under the direction of the examining magistrates, and at the request of the prisoners
A report of the examination of Messrs. Amasa Chapin, Lorenzo Chapin, Lyman Cole, William H. Holland, and William Kissane, (of Cincinnati) : charged with a conspiracy to burn the steamboat Martha Washington on the Mississippi River, in January, 1852, with intent to defraud certain insurance companies : before P.B. Wilcox, Esq., a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States, at Columbus, Ohio, from December 29th, 1852 to January 15th, 1853 </

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