A NEW AND PRACTICAL FORM BOOK: CONTAINING FORMS OF ALL THOSE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS IMPORTANT TO BE KNOWN BY THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA; AND DESIGNED, ALSO, FOR THE USE OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, SHERIFFS, CLERKS, CONSTABLES, CORONERS, &C., &C. COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES BY...ESQ., TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Raleigh: Office of the 'Weekly Post.', 1852. 12mo. Contemporary full leather, rebacked, with original red leather spine label laid down. New endpapers. pp 199, [1 blank], xi, [1 blank], [4 publ. advts.]. Spotted endpapers, else scattered spotting and foxing. Numerical accession rubberstamp in bottom margin of A2. About Good+.
Not a form book for lawyers, the author explains, but rather "a complete list of Forms of the various Instruments which the people themselves should know how to write, and which, in the course of their business, they are constantly making."
FIRST EDITION. Thornton 14855. BEAL 8091. 663 NUC 0305423 [4]. Not in Sabin, Marke, Harv. Law Cat. Item #16578
Price: $275.00