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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
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- Newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented, with a new addition of aboue two hundred and fifty words
- London : Printed by the assignes of Iohn More Esquire, 1636
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- 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings))
- Published anonymously. Written by John Rastell, but sometimes attributed to his son, William Rastell, who may have translated it. Cf. Marvin, J.G. Legal bibliography, p. 599.
- 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 ..."
- Numerous errors in foliation.
- English and Law French in parallel columns.