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• Author/Creator:Rastell, John, d. 1536.
  
• Title:An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure wordes, and termes of the lawes of this realme : newly set foorth[!] & augmented, both in French and English, for the helpe of such yonge studentes as are desirous to attaine the knowledge of the same / Whereunto are also added the olde tenures. In aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio.
  
• Published/Created:[London : R. Tottell, 1579]
  
• Physical Description:4 p.l., 211 numb l. ; 14 cm.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: P57 R18 579
    
  • Status:No information available 

   
• Notes:Signatures: A-Z8, Aa-Cc8, Dd4 (last blank).
  Slight irregularities in foliation.
  English and French in parallel columns.
  Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title "Expositiones terminorũ legum anglorũ ..." The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell--cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin Legal bibliography; Brit. mus Catalogue; etc.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Rastell, William, 1508?-1565.
  Law--Dictionaries.
  Law--Great Britain.
  Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French.