Les termes de la ley: or, Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in use expounded and explained. Newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented. With a new addition of above two hundred and fifty words ..

London : Printed by I. Beale and R. Hearne, 1641.

7 pages leaves, 271 numbered leaves ; 18 cm

English and French in parallel columns.
Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title, "Expositiones terminorũ legum anglorũ..." Published in 1567 in French and English with title, "Exposicions of the termes of the lawes of England..." Later French and English editions appeared under titles, "An exposiotion of certaine difficult and obscure words..." and "Les termes de la ley..."
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell. cf. Ames. Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue; etc.
Irregularities in paging.

KD313 .R3 1641

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