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Why Isn’t She Dead!
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeggy Berman; Kevin Childs
Melbourne: Gold Star Publications, 1972.The story of Peggy Berman, who worked as receptionist at an illegal abortion clinic, and was chief witness into an inquiry of police corruption.
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Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNo author
London: John Applebee for George Strahan, et al., 1742.To which are added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. Rare complete set of this collection of 18th century British crimes with explicit descriptions of crimes, trials, and punishments. Therein are numerous accounts of sodomy including that the case of one of the most famous of London’s gay meeting spots of the time, Clap’s molly house, being the coffee house of Margaret Clap AKA Mother Clap. “Margaret Clap, for keeping a Sodomitical House, July, 1726. MARGARET CLAP was indicted for keeping a disorderly house, in which she procured and encouraged Persons to commit Sodomy, December 10, 1725, and before and after. Samuel Stevens. On Sunday Night, the 14th of November last, I went ot the Prisoner’s House in Field-lane, in Holburn, where I found between 40 and 50 Men making Love to one another, as they call’d it. Sometimes they would sit in one another’s Laps, kissing in a lewd Manner and using their Hand indecently. Then they would get up, Dance and make Curtsies, and mimick the Voices of Women. ‘ I, Fie, Sir ! – Pray, Sir, – Dear, Sir, – Lord, how can you serve me so? – I swear I’ll cry out. – You’re a wicked Devil, – and your’e a bold Face. – Eh ! ye little dear Toad ! Come, buss ! -‘ Then they’d hug, and play, and toy, and go out by Couples into another Room on the same Floor, to be married, as they call’d it…” (vol. III, pp. 37) and so on and so forth are similar and many other crimes told, such as the murderer Sarah Malcolm (who was sketched by Hogarth), Catherine Hayes and her accomplices, the murderer poet Richard Savage (as described in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage), the thief John Jack Sheppard, and the sodomy trial of Charles Hitchen.
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Through the World’s Eye
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Kirby
Sydney: The Federation Press, 2000.Collection of speeches from then Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby on human rights, the law, and its institutions.
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Alle de Copyen van Indagingen, als mede alle de Gedichten Op de Tegenwoordige Tyd toepasselyk
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[UTRECHT SODOMY TRIALS]
No place: No publisher, [1730].A relic of the Utrecht sodomy trials, the large scale persecution of homosexual men in the Netherlands starting in 1730. Without author or publisher, literally the title translated to [All the copies of summonses, as well as all the poems applicable to the present time], listing of men accused of sodomy, with charges and sentences, many of death, accompanied by long moralistic poems on the depravity of the crime. 2 parts in one, the second part, Vervolg op alle de Copyen, being a continuation. This copy with the second part ending at page 94 with the final charge in October of 1730 and ending with the poem by P. Schim. Copies of various sizes are noted of part 2, perhaps indicating different issues, from page 94 to 151 the list continues to 1731, perhaps being issued later.
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; With Notes and References to the Whole. The Second Edition in 24 volumes with a considerably enlarged index, and with the 6 volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity .. By Several Gentlemen in the respective branches of the law (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted most of his life to the compilation of this work, being an extensive compendium of legal lore descended from Rolle’s Abridgment. “[T]he most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law. Whatever is to be found in the old Abridgments, or in all printed and several MS. Reports anterior to Geo. III., Mr. Viner has translated, abridged, remodelled, and introduced or referred to in his work.” (J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography, or a thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch law books: together with some continental treatises)
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Queensland Law Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 1-4, 1930-31
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. Brown; W. Elson-Green; S. T. Halpin
Brisbane: Queensland Law Students’ Association, 1930-31.The first 4 numbers of the QLD Law Gazette being the entirety of volume 1, bound in 1 volume, with 3 page index at rear. Ownership stamp and signature of Rupert Beirne, Toowoomba, son of solicitor and first native-born Mayor of Toowomba, B. J. Beirne, and with a plate depicting Chief Justice Adrian Knox to the front pastedown
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Inleydinge Tot de Hollandse Regts-Geleertheyt
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHugo de Groot [Hugo Grotius]
t’Amsteldam: Hendrik Boom en de Weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1692.Bevestigt Met Placaten, Hand-Vesten, oude Herkomen, Regten, Regts-geleerden, Sententien van de Hoven van Justitie in Holland en elders, midsgaders eenige byvoegsels en aanmerkingen op de selve, door Mr. Simon van Goenewegen van de Made, Als mede R. Hogerbeets van het aanleggen en volvoeren der Processen, voor de respective Hoven van Holland. En het Hollandse Versterf-regt. Beyde met Aanmerkingen van den selven Groenewegen. Met een Groot Nieuw Register voorsien. Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence; written in Loevenstein. Including within the pagination the separately titled R. Hogerbeets, van het Aenleggen ende Volvoeren der Processen, Voor de Respective Hoven van Justitie in Holland, [and] ‘t Hollandse Versterf-Regt.
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Prisoners Their Own Warders
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. F. A. McNair; W. D. Bayliss
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1899.A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825, Discontinued 1873, Together with a Cursory History of the Convict Establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the Year 1797. Finishing to spine states Constable, London, title page states Westminster: Archibald Constable.
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The History of Women in the Queensland Police Department
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartQueensland Police Department
[Brisbane]: Queensland Police Department, 1982.A very short history of women in the Queensland Police.
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A Digest of All Cases Determined in the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales and of Appeals Therefrom to the Supreme Court from 1895 to 1900
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Herbert Pike
Sydney: C. F. Maxwell (Hayes Bros.), 1901.Inclusive, and Reported in Land Court Cases, Vols. V. to X. and also Notation of Cases with Regard to the Sections of the Acts.
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The Factory and Shop Acts of the British Dominions. A Handbook
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartViolet R. Markham; H. J. Tennant
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1908].Compiled by Miss Violet R. Markham. Together with a General View of the English Law; and a Preface by Mrs. H. J. Tennant. Issued by the Industrial Sub-Committee of the Victoria League. Covers Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Cape of Good Hope.
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Uxor Ebraica, sue de Nuptiis et Divortiis ex Jure Civili, id eft, Divino & Talmudico, Veterum Ebraeorum, Libri Tres.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoannis Seldeni [John Selden]
Francofurti ad Oderam: Andr. Becmanus, 1673.Treatise on the Jewish laws of marriage and divorce by English polymath, jurist, and scholar of Jewish law John Selden (1584-1654). Bound (as usual) with a second separately titled work on Jewish law of succession, De Successionibus ad Leges Ebraeorum in Bona Defunctorum. Liber Singularis: In Pontificatum, Libri Duo.
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A Woman’s Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan Purdon; Aladin Rahemtula
Brisbane: Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2005.Published to coincide with the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which first enabled women to practise law in Queensland. Foreword by Mary Gaudron, former Justice of the High Court of Australia. This copy with a lengthy inscription by Aladin Rahemtula to the title page
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The Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Fischer Agnew
London: Wiley and Sons, 1874.Together with Notices of the Patent Laws in Force in the Principal Foreign States and in the Colonies. With an Appendix Containing the Statutes, Rules, Etc.
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Criminal Law: Pre-trial Practice and Procedure: Fairness in the Committal and Indicting Process
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Francis Lillas
Brisbane: Lillas Legal Publishing, [2014].“The aim of this work is to examine the aspect of a fair trial of an accused in the pre-trial procedure of preliminary examinations or committals and the charging or indicting of an accused.” (from introduction)
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The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.
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Indecent Assault
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoger Moody
London: Word Is Out/Peace News, 1980.The author’s account of his trial and acquittal at the Old Baily in 1979 on charges of serious sexual assault on a young boy.
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Archiv fur Kriminologie (Band 130, 1. u. 6 Heft) (3 Volumes)
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHans Gross; Robert Heindel; iWalter Specht; Emil Weinig
Lubeck: Schmidt-Romhild, 1962.The first 6 issues of Volume 130 of the German Archive for Criminology with Special Considerations of Scientific Criminalistics, a monthly journal by Prof. Dr. Hans Gross, Geh. Rat Dr. Robert Heindel, Walter Specht, and Emil Weinig, published by Franz Meinert. A number of graphically illustrated studies of criminal behaviour including the case study Uber Tatowierungsfetichismus by Waldemar Weimann on a type of tattoo fetishism, the subject (himself tattooed and presented nude in two photographs) only being aroused in the presence of tattooed women.
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The Future of Batterer Programs: Reassessing Evidence-Based Practice
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward G. Gondolf
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. -
Upholding the Australian Constitution: Proceedings of the Conference of The Samuel Griffith Society (30 Volumes)
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Samuel Griffith Society
Melbourne: The Samuel Griffith Society, 1992-2019.A full set of papers and speeches presented at the first 30 conferences of The Samuel Griffith Society. Established in 1992 and convening annually since, the Society’s “objectives are to educate Australians and undertake and support research about the Constitution, promote discussion of constitutional matters, defend the great virtues of the present Constitution, support the decentralisation of power, restore the authority of the Parliament, defend the independence of the judiciary, and support reform to these ends.”