The Law and Practice of Judgments and Executions. London, 1815

1815. Bingham on Judgments and Executions Bingham, Peregrine [1788-1864]. The Law and Practice of Judgments and Executions. London: Printed for J. Butterworth, 1815. Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent buckram, gilt fillets, title and institution's name to spine, endpapers renewed. Light soiling and minor shelfwear to exterior, front board slightly bowed, library bookplate and small circular shelf label to front pastedown. Light toning, ink stamp (Birmingham law Society) to title page and p. 1, otherwise internally clean. $250. * First edition. Also printed in Dublin in 1815 and again in Philadelphia in 1836 in Vol. XIII of The Law Library series. Bingham, a barrister of the Middle Temple, is best known for his important Reports and his editorial work on Bentham's Book of Fallacies. He was also a contributor to literary journals and a respected treatise writer. Like his other legal works, The Law and Practice of Judgments and Executions is distinguished by its clarity and elegant prose. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations 2:31.