The Mode of Conducting Trials; the Duties of Officers at Military Courts of Inquests, Courts of Inquiry, Courts of Requests, etc. etc. Some light foxing and browning, otherwise very good in contemporary half calf on marbled boards, slightly rubbed at the extremities. x, 870pp. Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1855.
Institutionally this important work is not uncommon, but it is seldom seen on the market.
Hough published his memoirs of the First Afghan War in 1840, A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indies, in the expedition to Affghanistan, in the year 1838-39, and subsequently wrote exclusively on Military-Legal matters. As he explains in his "Address", dedicated to Elliot Macnaghten and William Henry Sykes of the E.I.C., "Having been a Judge-Advocate-General of the Bengal Army for the period of fourteen years, during a service in India of forty years, [I have] had an extensive practice of the duties of a Judge-Advocate, and [have] made military law [my] constant study."
