Author:Giles Jacob

Giles Jacob
(1686–1744)

Works

• The Compleat Courtkeeper, or Land-Steward's Assistant (1713)
• Love in a Wood, or the Country Squire (1714), a farce
• The Accomplished Conveyancer (1714), in 3 vols.
• The Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum, containing an Account of the best Methods to improve Lands (1717)
• The Compleat Sportsman, in three parts, 1718)
• Lex Mercatoria (1718)
• Lex Constitutionis (1719)
• The Laws of Appeal and Murder (1719)
• The poetical register: or, The lives and characters of all the English poets. With an account of their writings (1719-20), in 2 vols.
• The Laws of Taxation (1720)
• The Land Purchaser's Companion (1720)
• Human Happiness: a Poem(1721)
• The Common Law common-placed (1726)
• A new law-dictionary: containing, the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law: and also the whole law, and the practice thereof, under all the heads and titles of the same (1729)
• The Compleat Chancery-Practiser (1730)
• City Liberties (1732)
• The complete court-keeper (1764) (external scan)
• Tractus de Hermaphrodites

Works about Jacob

• "Jacob, Giles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.