The new Natura brevium of the most reverend judge, Mr. Anthony Fitz-Herbert : together with the authorities in law, and cases in the books of reports cited in the margin
The eighth edition, carefully revised, some errors in the text of the last edition corrected, and the writs accurately translated into English /
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed for Henry Lintot ... and sold by J. Shuckburgh ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description
[12], 606, [42] p. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Notes
"To which is added a commentary, containing curious notes and observations on the most remarkable and useful writs, which illustrate and explain many doubtful and abstruse cases and points in the original, by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale ..."
Marginal annotations collected by Sir Wadham Wyndham. Cf. p. [5] in front.
written in French by Sir Henry Finch, Knight, His Majesty's Serjeant at Law. And done into English by the same author. To which are now added, Notes and References and a Table to the chapters by Danby Pickering, of Gray's Inn, Esq. ; and Reader of the Law-Lecture to that Honourable Society.
In Latin at foot of t.p.: "Leges nobis charae esse debent, non propter literas, fed propter earum rerum, quibus descriptum est, utilitatem, & eorum, qui scripserunt, sapientiam cicero."
Pages 497 and 498 omitted in numbering.
Book plate on back of front cover with name of owner removed.
Maxims and rules of pleading : in actions real, personal and mixt, popular and penal : describing the nature of declarations, pleas, replications, rejoynders, and all other parts of pleading, shewing their validity and defects, and in what cases they are amendable by the court, or remediable by statute-law, or otherwise : likewise, which of the parties in his plea shall first offer the issue, and where special matter may be given in evidence upon the general issue, of demurrers upon evidence, of verdicts, general and special, and of bills of exceptions to the same, of judgments, executions, writs of error and false judgment, and of appeals, indictments, and informations and the pleadings relating thereunto
The entring clerk's vade mecum : being an exact collection of precedents for declarations and pleadings in most actions, especially such as are brought for, or against heirs, executors, or administrators, executrices, administratices, and their husbands, in personal actions : also upon bills of exchange, pollicies of assurance, &c., and such process and parts of pleading as relate thereunto : being very practicable and useful to all entring-clerks, and attornies in His Majesties Courts of Kings-Bench and Common Pleas, as also to the attornies and practicers of every inferieur court and county-judicature
