Les termes de la ley
Subtitle: or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of England, now in use, expounded and explained.
Contributors: Rastell, William, 1508?-1565
Edition: 1st American, from the last London ed. of 1721. Faithfully translated from the Norman French, with many great and useful additions and corrections throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression ...
Publisher: Published by J. Johnson. Watson & Bangs, printers, Boston. 1812.
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Portland [Me]
Language: eng; roa
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Law -- Great Britain -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries.
Notes: Originally composed in French in 1520? with a Latin title, "Expositiones terminoru legum angloru ..." Published in 1567 in French and English with title, "Exposicions of termes of the lawes of England ..." Later French and English editiona 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.

BCLL RBR 37