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Withholding "Meat and Drink" from Juries.

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Withholding  Meat and Drink  from Juries.
Excessively rare Georgian-period printing of book of Elizabethan-era legal commentary, Doctor and Student: or Dialogues Between A Doctor of Divinity and A Student in the Laws of England, "Containing the Grounds of those Laws, together with Questions and Cases concerning the Equity and Conscience thereof; also comparing the Civil, Canon, Common and Statute Laws...." Printed by Henry Lintot "In the Savoy," 1746. Compiled by Christopher St. German some two centuries earlier. 4 x 7, 328 pp. + lengthy appendix. Fine caramel polished calf, blind-stamped frame and ornaments, raised hubs, boards with gilt-tooled fore-edges, an uncommon touch. Dialogues on the Law Eternal, Law of Reason, of Man, and of England, attempting to reconcile faith and ethics with the law. "If a Fine with Proclamation be levied according to the Statute, and no Claim made within five Years...is the Right of a Stranger extincted thereby in Conscience, as it is in the Law?...If a Man find Beasts in his Ground doing hurt, whether he may by his own Authority take them and keep them till he be satisfied of the hurt...Whether it stand with Conscience to prohibit a Jury of Meat and Drink till they be agreed of their Verdict...." Discussing every facet of the law in Olde England, from the mundane - to murder. Though the backbone of both British and American law, such insight and wisdom seems distant from the practice of law today. Several light waterstains on front board, chipping at top of spine, four leaves lightly wrinkled at fore-edge, else internally remarkably fresh, tight, and overall fine plus. Sweet & Maxwell I, p. 25, #36, only two copies recorded at the time. WorldCat currently locates no copies this edition.