Collectanea juridica. Consisting of tracts relative to the law and constitution of England. Volume the second. Sparsa colligimus. [Includes "A treatise on the Court of Star-Chamber"]

London: London: printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar. M DCC XCII. [1792], 1792. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fair. Description: Vol. 2 (only) of 2. 8vo: [4], 470, 26 p. (the page numbers at the end are in brackets). · Register: 8º: [pi]^2 *B^8 C-Q^8 R^8(-R8) S-2G^8 2H^4 [a]^4 [b]^2 [c]-[d]^4 (c4 is a blank). · Condition: Old calf very worn, top board missing, bottom board detached. Some wear to the fore edge of the title-page, light sporadic foxing, ink smear on p. 103. Despite the absence of R8 in the register, the book is complete. Based on holes in the inner margin, it appears that the book was issued in parts stab-sewn and subsequently bound up as a single volume. · Comments: Half of the volume consists of William Hudson's "A Treatise on the Court of Star-Chamber." Bound at the end is a "Register of Law Publications" for Easter Term 1791 through Hillary Term 1792, 26 pages, separately numbered. · References: Johnson 94 (1 copy of this volume, in Yeates' library); S&M 1:32(36); Marvin 369; Holdsworth, HEL 5:164-166, 12:410-411; ESTC T132283.

The first 240 pages of this second volume contain Hudson's "A Treatise on the Court of Star-Chamber," our best contemporary source for the jurisdiction, practice, and procedure of the court that last sat in 1641.