An abridgment of the first part of My Ld. Coke's Institutes
Subtitle: with some additions explaining many of the difficult cases, and shewing in what points the law has been altered by late resolutions and acts of Parliament
By: by William Hawkins, serjeant at law.
Contributors: Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481.; Hawkins, William, 1673-1746.
Edition: The fourth edition, to which is now added a large index in the nature of an analysis of the most general heads.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.), for John Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters
Published: 1725
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
Subjects: Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Real property -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Work titles: First part of the institutes of the laws of England
Notes: Hawkins's abridgment of the commentary of Sir Edward Coke on Littleton from Coke's First part of the institutes of the laws of England.  Hawkins omits Coke's reprint of Littleton's Tenures and such parts of Coke as were obsolete when the work was compiled.  Cf., J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliog.

Signatures: pi1 A⁴(-A4) B-2C¹².

Publisher's advertisements, "Law-Books printed for J. Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters" on verso of leaf pi1; "Books printed for J. Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters" on recto and verso of leaf 2C12.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ESTC T150439