Les termes de la ley:
or Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained. Newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented. With a new addition of aboue two hundred and fifty words ...

Description

Main Author

Rastell, John, -1536.

Related Names

Rastell, William, 1508?-1565.

Language(s)

French

Published

London, Printed by the assignes of Iohn More, 1636.

Subjects

Law > Law / Dictionaries.

Note

The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell. cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
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, "Les termes de la ley ..." and "An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words..."
English and French in parallel columns.
Signatures: A-Z8, Aa-Qq8 (last leaf blank)

Physical Description

8 p. l., 302 (i.e. 303) numb. 1. 17 1/2cm.

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