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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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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rastell, John, -1536, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. English & Anglo-Norman
- Language:
- English
- Romance (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Great Britain.
- Law.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- [8], 302, [1] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
- 8vo
- Edition:
- Newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented, with a new addition of aboue two hundred and fifty words.
- Other Title:
- Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by the assignes of Iohn More Esquire, 1636.
- Language Note:
- In English and Law French in parallel columns.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. Written by John Rastell, but sometimes attributed to his son, William Rastell, who may have translated it. Cf. Marvin, J.G. Legal bibliography, p. 599.
- Printed by Miles Flesher, John Haviland, and Robert Young (ESTC)
- Numerous errors in foliation.
- Signatures: A-2Q⁸.
- Local Notes:
- KD313 R3813 1636: Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Peter Harrington, 2026. Label on front inner cover: SCM (identified as Stephen C. Massey). Early ink manuscript on front end paper: Dan Fleming; in different hand: K.4.18. In early hand on title page: Daniel Fleming; additional notes at foot in different hand. Manuscript foliation. Pencil underlining. Early binding: full tanned animal skin with blind tooled borders, gold tooled on front cover: Edward Gwynn; on back cover E G. No pastedowns. Bookseller's description laid in.
- Cited in:
- Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 20718
- English short title catalogue, S122305
- Marvin, J.G. Legal bibliography, p. 599
- OCLC:
- 80193886
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