Last and best edition of the first English law dictionary. Corrected and greatly enlarged, English and Law French in parallel columns. First published in 1527, this pioneering dictionary was originally written in Law French with the Latin title Expositiones Terminorum Legum Anglorumae. Quite popular with students and lawyers due to its clarity and concision, it went through at least twenty-nine editions, the last appearing in 1721(with reissues in 1742 and 1819). The 1721 edition was translated by his son, William Rastell, who is often listed as its author. "Rastell's Termes de la Ley is a book which, like St. Germain's Doctor and Student, reflects the common law at the close of the year-book period with much fidelity." --Thomas Atkins Street, The Foundation of Legal Liability III:79 John Rastell d.1536], an Oxford-educated printer and lawyer, was a Member of Parliament when the Protestant reformation was legalized. Around 1527, the time Les Termes de la Ley was first published, Rastell took part in the religious controversies of the time, defending the Roman doctrine of purgatory in his notable work, A New Boke of Purgatory. William Rastell 1508?-1565] was the eldest son of John Rastell. A printer, lawyer, judge and author, he published his great collection of statutes from the Magna Carta to the present in 1557. It was updated periodically, the final edition appearing in 1625. Rastell also compiled A Table Collected of the Yeres of our Lorde God and of the Yeres of the Kynges of Englande (1561). He edited many important works including Littleton's Tenures (1534) and Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.

1890. Specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama edited, with an introduction and notes, and glossary, by Alfred W. Pollard. Contents: Introduction; York Play - The Barkers; Chester Plays - I. Noah's Flood II. Sacrifice of Isaac; Towneley Play - Secunda Pastorum; 'Coventry' Play - Salutation and Conception; Mary Magdalene; Castell of Perseverance; Everyman; John Rastell's Four Elements; Skelton's Magnyfycence; Heywood's Pardoner and the Frere; Thersytes; Bale's King John; Appendix.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Harvard University Law Library<ESTCID>N013514<Notes>Attributed to John Rastell and to his son, William Rastell; the latter is usually considered the editor or translator. With an initial advertisement leaf for J. Worrall. Parallel Law French and English texts. First published in Law French in 1527 with the Latin title, 'Expositiones terminorum legum anglorum'.<imprintFull> London]: In the Savoy: printed by H. Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq;) and are to be sold by J. Worrall, 1742. <collation> 6],592p.; 8

Specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama edited, with an introduction and notes, and glossary, by Alfred W. Pollard. Contents: Introduction; York Play - The Barkers; Chester Plays - I. Noah's Flood II. Sacrifice of Isaac; Towneley Play - Secunda Pastorum; 'Coventry' Play - Salutation and Conception; Mary Magdalene; Castell of Perseverance; Everyman; John Rastell's Four Elements; Skelton's Magnyfycence; Heywood's Pardoner and the Frere; Thersytes; Bale's King John; Appendix.