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.
A general abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole. With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, of the matter under general heads
Les termes de la ley : or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained
Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words /
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXI [1721].
Physical Description
[4], 592 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Anonymous. By John Rastell. Possibly translated by John Rastell's son William.
First published in 1527 as "Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum."
Signatures: [A]² B-2Pâ¸.
Copy 2 has the initials L. T. K, 1774 at top of title page and signature of Jno. Yeates on back of front cover, and on front leaf and inscription "Jrai Rddai moddyybiy"; Binding is full blind-tooled decorated leather.
Jasper Yeates' Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 832 on both copies as asssigned by Yeates.