Les termes de la ley, or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use expounded and explained.

Les termes de la ley, or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use expounded and explained.

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Author / Creator:Rastell, John, -1536.
Uniform title:Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. English & Anglo-Norman. 1671
Edition:Newly corrected and enlarged, with an addition of above one hundred words.
Imprint:London : Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, 1671.
Description:[14], 613, [1] p. : 1 coat of arms ; 18 cm.
Language:English
French
Subject:
Law -- Dictionaries.
Law.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2635647
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Other title:Termes de la ley.
Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use expounded and explained.
Other authors / contributors:Rastell, William, 1508?-1565.
Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
Notes:English and French in parallel columns.
Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title "Expositiones terminorũ legum anglorũ ...." Published in 1567 in French and English with title "Exposicions of the termes of the lawes of England ...." Later French and English editions appeared under titles "An Exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words ...." and "Les termes de la ley ...."
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell--Cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
The editor's preface is signed: T.B. [i.e. Thomas Blount?]

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