Les tenures de Monsieur Littleton
Subtitle: ouesque certeine cases addes per auters de puisne temps, queux cases vous troueres signes ouesque cest signe [star] al commencement, & al fine de chescun de eux : au fine que ne poies eux misprender pur les cases de Mounsieur Littleton : pur quel inconuenience, ils fueront dernierment tolles de cest lieur : et cy vn foits pluis admotes al request des gentlehomes, students en le ley Dengleterre
Contributors: West, William, active 1568-1594; Islip, Adam, -1639, printer; Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher: Imprinted [by Adam Islip?] for the Companie of Stationers
Published: 1608
Place of publication: London
Language: roa
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Land tenure; Early works to 1800; Law and legislation; Real property
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Signatures: A-X⁸ Y⁴ ²A-C⁸

Some copies, while octavo in format, are printed on quarto (4to) paper.

Includes index.

First published in 1482, Littleton's work was the earliest printed treatise on English law not printed in Latin. It incorporated some material from the Old tenures and "sums up the development of what was then the most important branch of the common law" --cf. Oxford companion to law.

ESTC S93514

STC (2nd ed.) 15755

Text in law French.