Burrill, Alexander M.

A Treatise on the Nature, Principles Circumstantial Evidence

      [1807- 1807 - 1869]. A Treatise on the Nature, Principles and Rules of Circumstantial Evidence, Especially that of the Presumptive Kind, In Criminal Cases. New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1868. xxi, 796 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Contemporary sheep, blind frames to boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Some rubbing with wear to extremities, light rubbing to boards, front hinge cracked but secure. Offsetting to margins of endleaves, underlining in pencil to a few places, interior otherwise fresh. Ex-library. Institution label to spine, bookplate to front pastedown, stamps to endleaves and top edge. A solid copy. * Final issue. A student of James Kent, Burrill was highly regarded for his legal scholarship. Best known for his New Law Dictionary and Glossary (1850-51), his other works were distinguished by their scholarship and graceful style. According to the Dictionary of American Biography, his treatise on circumstantial evidence addresses a "very technical branch of the law in a scientific spirit alien to previous treatise on the subject" (II:325). First published in 1856, this treatise was reissued in 1859 and 1868. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:280. [Attributes: Hard Cover]