Les termes de la ley; or, Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained
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Type of record: Book
Title: Les termes de la ley; or, Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained
Other titles: Expositiones terminorum Legum Anglorum
Classmark: BC Lg/RAS
Creator(s): Rastell, John (1475?-1536)
Additional creator(s): Rastell, William (1508?-1565) (Other)
Related people: Rastell, William
Publisher: Iohn More
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1636
Language: French
Size and medium: 8 p. l., 302 (i.e. 303) numb. l
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285296
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002092009705181
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, "Les termes de la ley ... " and "An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words ... ".
Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Qq⁸ (last leaf blank).
Irregularities in foliation; leaf 96 duplicated in numbering.
English and French in parallel columns, the English occupying the inner columns of each opening.
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell. Cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Indexed in: STC no. 20718.
Additional description
With signatures of (?) John Hervey, 1616-1679, on flyleaf and front pastedown. Signature torn off on f.58
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