Thesaurus brevium, or, A collection of approved forms of writs, and pleadings to those writs, and entries of those writs and pleadings : together with their special directions to all cities and boroughs : also an exact table of the writs and pleadings therein contained : very useful for all students and of absolute necessity for all practisers in the common law of this realm
Collection of approved forms of writs, and pleadings to those writs, and entries of those writs and pleadings
Responsibility
collected and published for the publick good by J.C.
Edition
The second edition,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for T. Basset, R. Clavel, T. Dring, J. Robinson, A. Churchill, and S. Leigh,
Date of Publication
1687.
Physical Description
[32], 310, [82] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]ⴠa-cⴠB-2Rⴠ2S-3O².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 73 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes index.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),
English short title catalogue,
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson,
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.
