Considerations on the propriety of making a remuneration to witnesses in civil actions, for loss of time, and of allowing the same on the taxation of costs as between party and party; with some observations on the present system of taxing costs
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Type of record: Book
Title: Considerations on the propriety of making a remuneration to witnesses in civil actions, for loss of time, and of allowing the same on the taxation of costs as between party and party; with some observations on the present system of taxing costs
Classmark: Law E-19 FRO
Creator(s): Frost, Charles (1781?-1862)
Additional creator(s): Wilson, I (Publisher); Frost, Charles (1781?-1862) (Former owner); Felsenstein, Frank (Former owner); J and G Todd (Publisher); J. Butterworth and Son (Publisher); J. and T. Clarke (Printer)
Publisher: Printed for J. Butterworth and Son; and I. Wilson
Publication city: London : York, Hull
Date(s): J. and G. Todd; 1815
Language: English
Size and medium: [4],42 numbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/773702
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020114096005181
Description
Author's own copy bound with other printed material and manuscript correspondence. Charles Frost (1781?-1862) was a lawyer at Hull and an antiquary.
First item in a bound volume of four printed items.
Considerations also bound with reports: 2. A narrative of the proceedings of the Law Society in relation to their application to the judges for an increase in the fees of attornies, G. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London, 1815, 13 pages; 3. Report of the Law Society Committee with 3 appendices, G. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skimmer Street, London, 1815, 17 pages.
Printed by J. and T. Clarke, 38, St John's Square, London.
Bound with: 4. Bills of costs, and allowances, in the Court of King's Bench / London: A Strahan, 1815.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Law E-19 FRO: extensive manuscript correspondence sent to the author Charles Frost is bound at the end of the volume: 1. A MS bill of costs for In the King's Bench Atkinson v Sadler 1814-1815, Rosser & Low[?] Bartletts Buildings; 2. A loose MS review transcribed from the Literary Panorama for March 1816; 3. Various letters about Considerations including eight from Tho. Le Blanc to Charles Frost, 1815; two letters from Jos. Butterworth [publisher?] to Charles Frost, 1815; three letters from Jona Gray; one letter from W B Kerney to Charles Frost, 1815; one letter from [?] Nicholson Hemmingway to Charles Frost, 1815; one other letter; one letter from Kirstley & F[...?]; 4. A small advertisement from the Morning Post, 19 December 1815 for Frost's Considerations.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Law E-19 FRO: contemporary [worn] half brown calf, brown paper over [loose] boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Law: Gifted by Professor Emeritus Frank Felsenstein to Leeds University Library in 2021. Purple ink stamp on front pastedown: B. R. A. 1151. MS. annotation in ink [by the author] on page 27. MS. annotations in pencil on pages 7 and 15.
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