Les termes de la ley: or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained. Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other word; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the statute law of Great Britain, never printed in any other impression ..
KD313 .R3 1721
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Les termes de la ley: or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained. Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other word; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the statute law of Great Britain, never printed in any other impression ..
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[London] In the Savoy : Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling, MDCCXXI.
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2 pages leaves, 592 pages ; 21 cm
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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 exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words..."
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell. cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
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 exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words..."
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell. cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
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