A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c
The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
Readings upon the statute law, alphabetically digested : wherein the most obscure and difficult points are clear'd up and illustrated by resolutions and adjudg'd cases, taken from the best authorities extant
Handwritten of title page: By Dr. Woodeson, Ninerian Professor at Oxford.
English short title catalogue,
Contents
Lecture the first: Of the laws of man's nature --- Lecture the second: Of civil, positive, or instituted law --- Lecture the third: Of the several species of magistracy --- Lecture the fourth: Of the law of nations --- Lecture the fifth: Of the laws of England, in a general view, and with respect to the various sources from which they have been derived --- Lecture the sixth: Of the study and profession of the laws of England, with a delineation of the plan pursued in the remaining lectures.
Printed by Mark Basket, printer to the King, and by the assigns of Robert Basket, and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
Date of Publication
1769-1800.
Physical Description
18 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Imprint varies.
Originally planned "In Eight Volumes."
Vols. 15-18: "being an eleventh [-fourteenth] volume to Mr. Runnington's edition, and a fifteenth [-eighteenth] to Mr. Ruffhead's, [completing those editions to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland]."
Includes indexes.
LCHS wantin vols 5 and 14.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 626-642 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
v. 1. 1225-1460 -- v. 2. 1461-1601 -- v. 3. 1604-1698 -- v. 4. 1699-1713 -- v. 5. 1714-1729 -- v. 6. 1730-1746 -- v. 7. 1747-1756 -- v. 8. 1757-1762 -- v. 9. 1762-1763 -- v. 10. 1765-1770 -- v. 11. 1771-1773 -- v. 12. 1774-1776 -- v. 13. 1777-1780 -- v. 14. 1781-1785 -- v. 15. 1786-1789 -- v. 16. 1790-1794 -- v. 17. 1795-1798 -- v. 18. 1799-1800.
Bibliotheca legum Angliæ, part I, or, A catalogue of the common and statue law books of this realm : and some others relating thereto ; giving an account of their several editions, ancient printers, dates, and prices, and wherein they differ
A new ed., corr. and arranged in a more perspicuous method; and interspersed with observations on the principal works, collected from the best authorities.
A new ed., corr. and arranged in a more perspicuous method; and interspersed with observations on the principal works, collected from the best authorities.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for E. Brooke (successor to J. Worrall and B. Tovey),
Date of Publication
1788.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 17 cm
Notes
Vol. 2 has title: Bibliotheca legum Angliæ, part II. Containing a general account of the laws and law-writers of England, from the earliest times to the reign of Edw. III. As also of the public records and other authentic law mss. the statutes, and the several collections and editions thereof; the reports, or collections of adjudged cases in the courts of law and equity; together with an account of the principal works upon the law and constitution, published during the present reign. Compiled by Edward Brooke.
