The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations
The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.
Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head in the Strand, London ; and A. Kincaid, and J. Bell, Edinburgh,
Date of Publication
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description
2 v. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. I: xvi, 430 p.; v. II: 221, [1], 54 p.
"The discourses relate, each of them, to subjects common to the law of England and of Scotland"--Preface.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 672 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Contents
I. History of the criminal law -- II. History of promises and covenants -- III. History of property -- IV. History of securities upon land for payment of debt -- V. History of the privilege which an heir-apparent in a feudal holding has, to continue the possession of his ancestor -- VI. History of regalities, and of the privilege of repledging -- VII. History of courts -- V. 2, VIII. History of brieves -- IX. History of process in absence -- X. History of execution against movables and land for payment of debt -- XI. History of personal execution for payment of debt -- XII. History of execution for obtaining payment after the death of the debtor -- XIII. History of the limited and universal representation of heirs -- XIV. Old and new extent -- Appendix.
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.
A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England : wherein by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell as well the ciuile lawes of the empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the ii gouernementes of kingdomes, whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and politique administration conioyned
written in Latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable Maister Fortescue ... and newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.
