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.
Reports of cases decreed in the High Court of Chancery : during the time Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, was Lord Chancellor. In many of which decrees he was afflicted by some of the judges of the common law ... With proper tables ; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters therein contained
[London] : For R. Gosling at the Middle Temple Gate ; W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar, and J. Hooke at the Flower de Luce over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street
Publisher
In the Savoy : Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq) ;
Date of Publication
1725.
Physical Description
[2], iv, [4], 480, [22] pages ; 31 cm (fol.)
Notes
Preface subscribed W.N.
Continued from title page: ... All which cases are truly stated upon pleadings, and the arguments on each side clearly reported; together with the opinions of those judges, who sate as assistants to the chancellor before he pronounced his decrees. To which are added marginal notes, shewing where those decrees are founded on the civil law, and agree therewith. None of these cases ever printed before, and all of them carefully collected by a gentleman who attended the said court, and was himself of counselin the said cases.
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.
