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.
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.
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