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
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Type of record: Book
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
Other titles: Expositiones terminorum Legum Anglorum; Les termes de la ley
Classmark: BC Lg/RAS
Creator(s): Rastell, John (1475?-1536)
Additional creator(s): Rastell, William (1508?-1565) (Other); Blount, Thomas (1618-1679) (Other)
Related people: Rastell, William; Blount, Thomas
Publisher: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins...[etc]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1671
Language: English
Size and medium: [14], 613, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285215
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002077889705181
Description
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 ...." and "Les termes de la ley ...."
English and French in parallel columns, the former on the outer columns.
Last leaf blank.
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell--Cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
The editor's preface is signed: T.B. [i.e. Thomas Blount?].
Indexed in: Wing R291.
Additional description
Damage: lacking first leaf top of title page torn off affecting text corner of p.305/6 torn off tear on p.307/8 affecting text. With signature Johañ[is] Andrews' in contemporary hand(s?) inside back cover, and bookplate of Throp on verso of title-page
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