Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
Reports: or New cases : [King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1639-1642] with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation. And the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments
Registrum omniu breuium tam originaliu [quam] iudicialium
Registrum omnium brevium tam originalium quam iudicialium
Place of Publication
Londini
Publisher
Apud Guilielmum Rastell,
Date of Publication
1531.
Physical Description
2 v. in 1 ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Notes
"Registrum omniu[m] breuium iudicialium" has separate t.p. and foliation.
Compilation has been attributed to Ralph de Hengham. Cf. J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliography.
Variant has colophon on last leaf (P4). This issue has colophon on P3v and last leaf blank. Cf. STC 20836.5.
Colophon of v. 2 has distribution statement: " ... to sell in Fletestrete at the house of the sayde Wyllyam, or in Poulys chyrch yarde, or els at temple barre at the house of Robert Redman."
Vol. 1: [16], 321, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank); v. 2: [10], 85, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank).
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
A treatise on the laws of England attributed to John Breton or Britton, but largely based on "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae" by Henry de Bracton.