Together with divers decrees in the High Court of Chancery. Upon limitations of trusts of terms for years. The whole printed from the authors original manuscript. Revised and corrected with his own hand. And published with the allowance and approbation of the lord keeper, and all the judges.
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for D. Browne ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description
[4], 356, [16] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
"The use of the law" was probably not written by Bacon. Cf. Gibson.
Signatures: pi² A-Z⸠2A².
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page and on front life..
Book numbefr 830 as assigned by Yeates.
With an index.
Gibson, R. Bacon,
ESTC
Contents
(from t. p.) 1. A proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws -- 2. An offer of a digest of the laws -- 3. The elements of the common laws of England ... -- 4. The use of the law for preservation of our persons, goods, and good names, according to the practice of the laws and customs of this land -- 5. Cases of treason, felony, praemunire, prerogative of the King, of the office of a constable -- 6. Arguments in law in certain great and difficult cases ... -- 7. Ordinances ... -- 8. Reading on the statute of uses.
collected by Sir George Cary one of the masters of the Chancery in anno 1601 ; out of the labours of Mr. William Lambert ; whereunto is annexed, the King's order and decree in Chancery, for a rule to be observed by the chancellor in that court, exemplified and enrolled for a perpetual record there, anno 1616 ; together with an alphabetical table of all the cases.
