William Fulbecke, A Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law (1600)
Date
1600
Author
William
Fulbecke
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
A Table of certain words in the Interpretation whereof the Common Law of this Realme and the Ciuill Law doe seeme to agree
Book title
A Direction or Preparatiue to the Study of the Lawe
Publication place
London
Printer
Adam Islip?
Publisher
Thomas Wight
Transcription source
Henry E. Huntington Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
law
Summary
Chapter 8 is titled "That the words or termes vsed in bookes of lawe ought to be vnderstoode and applied as the lawe doth expound and conceiue them" (62r). At its close is a glossary of legal terms and phrases (72v-80r).
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
72v-81v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 17
number: 17
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 105
sample: Narratio, a declaration of a matter eyther ore tenus or in forme of law: If it be ore tenus, it is called a motion, & thereof it is said, qui bene narrat, bene impetrat: If it be in forme of law, it is a declaration grounded vpon a writ, contayning the whole state of the matter, as the plaintife supposeth it.
number: 105
sample: Narratio, a declaration of a matter eyther ore tenus or in forme of law: If it be ore tenus, it is called a motion, & thereof it is said, qui bene narrat, bene impetrat: If it be in forme of law, it is a declaration grounded vpon a writ, contayning the whole state of the matter, as the plaintife supposeth it.
Alston
XVIII.II.36
STC
11410
Other editions
1620: STC 11411 (Alston XVIII.II.37)
Modern editions
Stirling, T. H., ed. Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law. 2nd edn. London: J. and W. T. Clarke, 1829.
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