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 above two hundred and fifty words..
Rastell, John,-1536.
Rastell, William,1508?-1565.
London, : Printed by the assignes of Iohn More esquire.,
1636..
Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Qq⁸ (last leaf blank).
Leaf 26 misnumbered 24. Leaf 29 misnumbered 21. Leaf 30 misnumbered 29. Leaf 31 misnumbered 29. Leaf 32 misnumbered 19. Leaf 33 misnumbered 20. Leaf 34 misnumbered 21. Leaf 34 misnumbered 22. Leaf 36 misnumbered 3. Leaf 37 misnumbered 24. Leaf 38 misnumbered 25. Leaf 39 misnumbered 26. Leaf 40 misnumbered 17. Leaf 97 misnumbered 96.
English and French in parallel columns.
Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title, "Expositiones terminoru[m] legum angloru[m] ..." 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 ..."
The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell.  Cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin, Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
A translation of: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum.
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