THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-JERSEY, FROM THE TIME OF THE SURRENDER OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, TO THIS PRESENT TIME, BEING THE TWENTY FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. COLLECTED AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SAID PROVINCE. WITH PROPER TABLES; AND AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX CONTAINING ALL THE PRINCIPLE MATTERS IN THE BODY OF THE BOOK. BY SAMUEL NEVILL ESQ.; SECOND JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE SAID PROVINCE.
[Philadelphia]: Printed by William Bradford, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province of New-Jersey, 1752. Folio. [4], 504 pp, lacking the last three index pages. Scattered spotting, dirty endpapers. Bound in sheep, rebacked in period style with ribbed spine. Good+.
"The first volume of the second official compilation of the laws of New Jersey, assembled by Samuel Nevill with the assistance of Philip Kearny and commonly referred to as 'Nevill's Laws'." [Felcone, whose entry on this imprint is a masterpiece of scholarship.] The second volume, printed in 1761 at Woodbridge by James Parker, is, says Felcone, the first law compilation printed in New Jersey.
Felcone, New Jersey Books 1421. Evans 6893. ESTC W14077. Item #39950
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