The Laws Respecting Landlords, Tenants, And Lodgers, Laid Down in a..

1794. Dublin: For Messrs. P. Byrne [et al.], [1794]. Dublin: For Messrs. P. Byrne [et al.], [1794]. With Detailed Contemporary Annotations Bird, James Barry. [The Laws] Respecting Landlords, Tenants, And Lodgers, Laid Down in a Plain, Easy, And Familiar Manner; And Free from the Technical Terms of the Law. With Many Practical Directions. Concerning Leases, Assignments, Surrenders, Agreements, Covenants, Repairs, Waste, &c. &c. Demand and Payment of Rent, Distress, And Ejectment, As Collected from the Several Reports and Other Books of Authority, Up to the Commencement of the Present Easter Term, 1794. Containing Also Distinct Treatises on the Various Kinds of Estates, Particularly Estates for Life, For Years, And Copyhold Estates. Dublin: Printed by N. Kelly, For Messrs. P. Byrne [et al.], [1794]. [xii], 157, [11] pp. 12mo. (6-3/4" x 3-3/4"; 17.2 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges, ten 6-1/4" x 3-3/4" sheets loosely sewn into front endleaves. Light rubbing and some small ink spots to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, faint dampstaining to rear endleaves, annotations in a single neat hand to endleaves and sewn-in sheets. Light toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, early annotations to several leaves, upper part of title page excised with loss to first two words, completed on following leaf with "Laws" in manuscript. $750. * Only Dublin edition, published the same year as the first London edition. Bird produced a well-regarded series of handbooks on a broad range of legal topics. Written for both "the general reader" and "the young practitioner," The Laws Respecting Landlords was not an exception, and went through many editions with the final edition published in London in 1833. The annotations to our copy, most to sheets sewn into the front endleaves, are statutory references. Primarily related to distress, they update the text for use in Ireland and were likely made by an Irish landlord or practitioner. OCLC locates 4 copies of the Dublin edition in North American law libraries (DePaul, Ohio State, University of Iowa, Social Law). English Short-Title Catalogue N12323.