Story, Joseph [1779-1845]

A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions with Occasional Annotations.

Boston: Carter and Hendes, 1829. xii, 709p. Full contemporary calf with original gilt stamped red spine lettering piece. Second edition. First published in 1805. This title was the first legal work bearing Joseph Story name. Pleadings was a success for Story and served American practitioners well as they previously had to resort to English entries for precedents. The work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainment in the science of special Pleading." Marvin 668. Lightly rubbed and scuffed. Light scattered foxing otherwise internally clean. Item #10432

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