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Advice to Grand Jurors in Cases of Blood: Asserting from Law and..
by Babington, Zachary
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1677. Grand Juries Must Indict in All "Cases of Blood" Babington, Zachary. Advice to Grand Jurors in Cases of Blood. Asserting from Law and Reason that at the King's Suit in All Cases (Where a Person by Law is to be Indicted for Killing of Another Person) That the Indictment Ought to be Drawn for Murther, And That the Grand Jury Ought to Find it Murther, Where Their Evidence is That the Party Intended to be Indicted had his Hands in Blood, And Did Kill the Other Person. London: Printed for John Amery, 1677. [xxxii], 216 pp. With initial imprimatur leaf. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panels to boards, gilt-edged raised bands to spine. gilt tooling to board edges, edges of text block rouged. Light rubbing to extremities, moderate wear to head of spine, corners bumped, front hinged cracked, rear hinge starting, upper outside corner torn from front free endpaper and following endleaf (fragment of early signature to front free endpaper remains). Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to endleaves. A handsome copy. $850. * First edition. Babington encourages grand juries to indict in all murder cases for which there is evidence and to leave mitigating circumstances for the consideration of the petit jury at trial. Later editions appeared in 1680 and 1692. All are scarce. OCLC locates 7 copies of the first in North American law libraries (Harvard, LA County Law Library, San Francisco Law Library, Social Law Library, University of Alabama, University of Pennsylvania, Yale), the ESTC adds 2 (Columbia, Library of Congress). English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) R17389.
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- Title
- Advice to Grand Jurors in Cases of Blood: Asserting from Law and..
- Author
- Babington, Zachary
- Book Condition
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- Date Published
- 1677
- Keywords
- GREAT BRITAIN, MURDER, JURIES, ANTIQ4922, CAT105, 74416.JPG
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