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- ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography, or A Thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch Law Books: Together with Some Continental Treatises , T. & J. W. Johnson, 1847, page 85.
- ↑ Matthew Bacon [i.e., Mathew Bacon] (1736), A New Abridgment of the Law, In the Savoy [London]: Printed by E[lizabeth] and R[obert] Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.;) for B. Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, OCLC 947742050 . Volume III was published in 1740, volume IV in 1759, and volume V in 1766.
- ↑ Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (1999), page xv.
- ↑ Marvin, pages 85 and 86.
- Bacon, M. A new Abridgment of the Law. With large additions and corrections, by Sir Henry Gwillim and C. E. Dodd, and with notes and references made to the edition published in 1809, by Bird Wilson; to which notes and references to American and English law and decisions have been added, by John Bouvier. 10 vols. 8v. Philadelphia. 1842.