The Law of Executions: Or, A Treatise Shewing and Explaining the..

1706. Scarce Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Executions C[arter], S[amuel]. The Law of Executions: Or, A Treatise Shewing and Explaining the Nature of Executions in Several Rules, And Who May Sue Execution or Not, And Against What Persons. [...] All Illustrated and Explained, In Subdivisions, By Our Book Cases, Reports, And Presidents. By S. C. Esq; Author of Lex Custumaria. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1706. [xvi], 323, [21] pp. Includes two-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (7" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind frames, fillets and corner fleurons to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and fragment of early paper title label to spine, blind tooling to board edges. early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Light rubbing and a few nicks and scuffs to boards, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, tiny chip to head of rear joint, corners bumped and somewhat worn, pastedowns loose, a few cracks to text block. Moderate toning to interior, smudges to lower margins of preliminaries, owner inscription (of Richard Goodnough) dated 1745 to front endleaf, owner inscription ("Ex dono- Ja: Clarke- 1720") to head of title page. $650. * Only edition. Carter was the author of two notable treatises: The Infants Lawyer (1697), the first English treatise on laws concerning infants, and Lex Custumaria, Or, A Treatise of Copy-Hold Estates (1696). As indicated by the title, The Law of Executions addresses the various ways (non-criminal) judicial decisions are carried out. OCLC locates 9 copies in North American law libraries (Columbia, Harvard, LA-County, Library of Congress, Ohio Supreme Court, University of Georgia, Social Law, Wisconsin State Law Library, Yale). English Short-Title Catalogue T32964.