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NEW JERSEY] NEVILL, SAMUEL. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, From the Time of the Surrender of the G... . [Woodbridge?]: William Bradford 1752. Contemporary calf with blind rule on covers, in a modern clamshell case. 11 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (28.5 x 18 cm); [iv], 507, [1] pp., collating pi^(2) A-6M^(2). Binding worn and rubbed, front endleaves loose, generally a clean copy (some minor toning and occasional foxing), with Bar Association stamp on title recto. The titles (of both the 1752 and 1761 volumes) bear an annotation indicating that they were purchased for 32/6 each in 1763; Together with The acts of the General Assembly of the province of New-Jersey, from the year 1753, being the twenty-sixth of the reign of King George the Second, where the first volume ends, to the year 1761, being the first of King George the Third. With proper tables; and an alphabetical index; containing all the principal matters in the body of the book: together with an appendix; containing the several acts of Parliament now in force in America, relating to His Majesty's forces, and the articles of war. Collected and published by order of the General Assembly of the said province...Volume the second. Woodbridge: James Parker 1761. Contemporary calf with blind rule on covers, in a modern clamshell case. 10 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (27 x 17 cm); [4], x, [2], 401, [1], 56, 64p., collating pi^(2) a-c^(2) B-5A^(2) chi^(2) 5B-5I^(2) [5K]1 a-o^(2) [A]^(2)-Q^(2). Binding worn and rubbed, boards detached, generally a clean copy (some minor toning and occasional spotting and foxing).. "Nevill's Laws," comprise a major recension of the corpus of New Jersey law.The first volume is in the state with page 293 misnumbered 193 (etc.). The appendix to the second volume is of military law for North America, with a separate title. Evans 6893; Humphrey New Jersey 4; Evans 8947, 8680 [the final 64 pp. appendix], Humphrey New Jersey 54. C The New York City Bar Association