{"id":1002,"date":"2018-01-24T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/?page_id=1002"},"modified":"2020-08-24T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:48:39","slug":"catalog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANTIQUARIAN LAW BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS<\/strong><\/p>\n

First American law books after independence<\/em><\/p>\n

1781 \u2013 THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (published by Francis Bailey, by order of Congress)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1795 \u2013 A SYSTEM OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT (Zephaniah Swift) \u2013 the first American legal treatise<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 \u2013 THE NEW VIRGINIA JUSTICE (William Waller Hening) \u2013 the first handbook for justices of the peace under new American law\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 – THE MASSACHUSETTS JUSTICE BEING A COLLECTION OF THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS RELATIVE TO THE POWER OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (Samuel Freeman; published by Isaiah Thomas & Ebenezer Andrews)(coming soon)<\/p>\n

1810 \u2013 A DIGEST OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES, AND A TREATISE ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE, AND PROMISSORY NOTES (Zephaniah Swift) \u2013 the first American treatise on evidence\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1810 – THE AMERICAN PLEADER AND LAWYER’S GUIDE IN COMMENCING, PROSECUTING, AND DEFENDING ACTION AT COMMON LAW, AND SUITS IN EQUITY (William Hening)(coming soon)<\/p>\n

Early compilations of state statutes<\/em><\/p>\n

1788 – THE PERPETUAL LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS – from establishment of its Constitution to the First Session of the General Court in 1788 (Isaiah Thomas)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1801 – THE PERPETUAL LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS – from establishment of its Constitution in the year 1780, to the end of the year 1800 with the Constitutions of the United States of America and the Commonwealth, prefixed\u00a0 (Isaiah Thomas & E. T. Andrews)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1809 \u2013 A COLLECTION OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA (William Waller Hening)\u00a0the first official compilation of the laws of Virginia, derived in part from Thomas Jefferson\u2019s personal library<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1829 \u2013 THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (John Duer, \u200eBenjamin Franklin Butler, John C. Spencer)(the first formal codification of state statutes by a common law jurisdiction)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1830’s – THE STATUTES AT LARGE OF THE LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, edited under the authority of\u00a0the Legislature (Thomas Cooper)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

First compilations of the Laws of the United States<\/em><\/p>\n

1789 \u2013 GEORGE WASHINGTON\u2019S PERSONAL COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION AND ACTS OF THE FIRST CONGRESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1796 \u2013 LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES in three volumes through the Fourth Congress, Published with Authority (compiled by Zephaniah Swift and published by Richard Folwell, Philadelphia)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1797 \u2013 LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, Published with Authority (printed by William Ross, Philadelphia) \u2013 coming soon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1789 \u2013 ACTS PASSED AT A CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA published with authority (Francis Childs and John Swaine, Philadelphia)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/em><\/p>\n

1789 \u2013 THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS IN THE FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES WITH APPENDIX \u2013 Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and all the laws of a Public Nature with a Copious Index, in two volumes (published by Gales and Seaton, 1834)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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