The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England; or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self ... / Hc ego grandvus posui tibi, candide lector, authore Edwardo Coke, milite. Also three learned tracts of the same author: the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entitled, The statute of levying fines; the second, Of bail and mainprize: and the third, his Compleat copyholder. To the whole is added, the treatise of the Old tenures of the laws of England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.

Contributor:

Littleton, Thomas, Sir, -1481.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Land tenure.

Land tenure--Law and legislation.

Fines and recoveries.

Great Britain.

Real property--Great Britain.

Real property.

Fines and recoveries--Great Britain.

Bail--Great Britain.

Bail.

Manors.

Physical Description:

7 preliminary leaves, 100 pages, 402 numbered l. pages, 74 unnumbered pages : 2 portrait (including frontispiece) folded tables ; 34 cm

Edition:

The twelfth edition, (carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions) with two new tables; and many references to the modern law cases never printed before.

Place of Publication:

[London] In the Savoy : Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling, and H. Lintot, 1738.

Notes:

Engraved portraits of Coke and Littleton.

French and English text in parallel columns.

Contains:

Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. Reading del Mon Seignior Coke sur le statute de 27. E.I. appelle le statute de finibus levatis.

Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. Little treatise of baile and mainprize.

Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. Complete copyholder.

Old tenures of the laws of England.

OCLC:

123276690