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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 words; 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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Title: 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 words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the statute law of Great Britain, never printed in any other impression

Other titles: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum; Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm

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Classmark: Law E-2.02/RAS

Creator(s): Rastell, John (1475?-1536)

Additional creator(s): Rastell, William (1508?-1565) (Other)

Related people: Rastell, William

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling

Publication city: [London] In the Savoy

Date(s): 1721

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], 592 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/200002

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009802479705181

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Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title, "Expositiones terminoru legum angloru..." 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..."


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.

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