An abridgment of the first part of L. Coke's Institutes
Subtitle: with great 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 seventh edition, to which is now added a large index in the nature of an analysis of the most general heads.
Publisher: Printed by Henry Lintot, for D. Browne, without Temple-bar, J. Shuckburgh, between the Temple-Gates, J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-street
Published: 1751
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: A⁴(-A4) B-2C¹².

LC copy previously owned by Thomas Jefferson, initialed by him at signatures I and T.  Has armorial bookplate, "Reuben Skelton, Hanover County, Virginia" and has a few manuscript notes, possibly in Reuben Skelton's hand.  Rebacked and repaired, armorial bookplate and Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Cf. Sowerby.

LC copy imperfect: final leaf containing publisher's advertisements (leaf 2C12) wanting.

ESTC T137149

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1785