Henry Spelman, Of the Original of Terms or Law-days (1684)
Date
1684
Author
Henry
Spelman
Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
OF THE Law-Terms: A DISCOURSE Written by The Learned ANTIQUARY. Sir HENRY SPELMAN, Kt. WHEREIN The Laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to this Subject, are fully explained
Publication place
London
Publisher
Matthew Gillyflower
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
law
Summary
On law terms ... their names, their originals, and the length of the period they name.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 11
sample: The space between the Terms, is named Vacation, à Vacando, as being Leasure from Law-business, by Latinists Iusticium à jure stando, because the Law is now at a stop or stand.
number: 11
sample: The space between the Terms, is named Vacation, à Vacando, as being Leasure from Law-business, by Latinists Iusticium à jure stando, because the Law is now at a stop or stand.
Wing
S4929
Catalog
Bodleian Library. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. in 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953.
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Other editions
The date of the Bodleian manuscript, MS e Mus. 107, is 1614.
Criticisms
Schuyler, Robert L. "The Antiquaries and Sir Henry Spelman." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 90 (1946): 91-104.
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