Les termes de la ley: or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained. Now corrected and enlarged. With many great and useful additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression
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Title: Les termes de la ley: or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained. Now corrected and enlarged. With many great and useful additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression
Other titles: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum; Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm
Classmark: Barbier Collection B-1.7/RAS
Creator(s): Rastell, John (1495?-1536)
Additional creator(s): Rastell, William (1508?-1565) (Other)
Related people: Rastell, William
Publisher: Printed by S. Roycroft and J. Rawlins
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1708
Language: English
Size and medium: [2], 556 [i.e. 576] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/200001
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009802419705181
Description
Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title "Expositiones terminoru legum anglorum..." Published 1567 in French and English with title "Eposicions of the termes of the lawes of England ..." Later French and English editions appeared under titles "An Exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words ..." and "Les termes de la ley ..."
Many irregularities in paging.
English and French in parallel columns.
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.
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