Un Abridgment des Plusieurs Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley: Alphabeticalment digest desouth severall titles. Per Henry Rolle, Sergeant del Ley, Ovesque un Table Des general Titles contenus en ceo

ROLLE, Henry

Verlag: A. Crooke et al, London, 1668

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[12], 688, 725-940, 836 [826], [8] p. 36 cm. Rebound in half leather with marbled paper boards. New endpapers. No frontispiece. Title and next 4 leaves have repaired bottom corners. Dampstains to top corners. Ink notation at top of title page. Enhanced by ink marginalia throughout. Occasional tears and spots. Large chip from bottom of p. 503 may be paper flaw. Tear with pinned repair on p. 724. Pages 827-30 are loosening at top and have rough edges. Worm tracks in bottom margin pp. 654-210 not affecting text. Sir Henry Rolle (1589 1656) of Shapwick in Somerset was Chief Justice of the King's Bench. This is the only edition of his famous and exhaustive legal reference work, the first successful attempt to organize English legal cases by subject. Edited by Sir Matthew Hale (1609 1676), influential English barrister, judge and lawyer, who contributed the Preface. Written in French with Old English type. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 120590

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Titel: Un Abridgment des Plusieurs Cases et ...

Verlag: A. Crooke et al, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1668

Einband: Hardcover

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