The commentaries, or reports of Edmund Plowden, of the Middle-Temple, Esq, an apprentice of the common law : containing divers cases upon matters of law, argued and adjudged in the several reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary, King and Queen Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth : originally written in French, and now faithfully translated into English, and considerably improved by many marginal notes and references to all the books of the common law, both ancient and modern : to which are added, the Quæries of Mr. Plowden, now first rendered into English at large, with references, and many useful observations : in two parts : with two new tables, more compleat than any yet published; the one, of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plowden, Edmund, 1518-1585.

Series:

LLMC-digital (Series)

Standardized Title:

Commentaries. English

Language:

English

Romance (Other)

Subjects (All):

Law reports, digests, etc--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Law reports, digests, etc.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 parts in 1 (vi, 567, 15, 68 pages, 48 unnumbered pages)) : portrait

Place of Publication:

In the Savoy [London] : Printed by Catharine Lintot, and Samuel Richardson, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for the translator, MDCCLXI. [1761]

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed June 29, 2015).

Part 2 has a separate title page, "The second part of the commentaries, or reports of Edmund Plowden"; pagination and register are continuous.

The two parts are paged continuously; immediately following part 2 is the case of "Basset and Morgan versus Manxel. at Serjeant's Inn" (15 pages), followed by the Quæries, with separate title page and pagination (68 pages); register is continuous.

The frontispiece is engraved and the upper part consists of a portrait within an oval frame bearing the inscription: Edmund Plowden Serjeant at Law T.R. 27 Oct. 5 & 6 P. and M.A.D. 1558; in the lower part is a monument containing the recumbent figure of Plowden; beneath the lower right hand corner of the frontispiece: T. Stayner Sculp.; at foot of the frontispiece: Printed for J. Worrall at the Dove in Bell Yard near Lincoln's Inn.

"His portrait has been engraved by T. Stagner, and his monument by J.T. Smith."--Dictionary of national biography under Plowden.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T144729

Contains:

Plowden, Edmund, 1518-1585. Quaeres. English

Other Format:

Print version: Great Britain. Courts. Commentaries, or Reports of Edmund Plowden.

OCLC:

642437276

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.