John Rastell, Les Termes de la Ley (1624)

Date

1624

Lexicographer

John Rastell Note: 12/10/2005
William Rastell Note: 12/10/2005

Lexicon title

Les Termes De La Ley: Or, Certaine difficult and obscure Words and Termes of the Common Lawes of this Realme expounded

Publication place

London

Printer

Adam Islip for the Company of Stationers

Transcription source

Bodleian Library

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

law

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Dieta rationabilis. DIeta rationabilis is some times vsed for a reasonable daies iourney, as Bra. li. 3. part. 2. ca. 16. It hath in the ciuile law other significations which need not to be here mentioned. See vocab. vtriusque iuris. (p. 147)

STC

20716

Catalog

Baker, J. H., and J. S. Ringrose. A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1996. 45. Cambridge University Library Dd.6.60, a copy of "one of the printed editions of <i>Les Termes de la Ley</i> view record

Other editions

1523: STC 20701 (Alston XVIII.II.I.1);
1525: see LEME 836;
1527: STC 20703 (all in French; Alston XVIII.II.I.3);
ca. 1530: STC 20703.3 (Alston XVIII.II.I.4);
1563: STC 20703.5 (Alston XVIII.II.I.5; see LEME 95);
1567: STC 20704 (Alston XVIII.II.I.6);
1572: STC 20705 (Alston XVIII.II.I.7);
1575: STC 20706 (Alston XVIII.II.I.8);
1579: STC 20706.5 (Alston XVIII.II.I.9-10; see LEME 151);
1592: STC 20708 (Alston XVIII.II.I.11);
1595: STC 20709 (Alston XVIII.II.I.12);
1598: STC 20710 (Alston XVIII.II.I.13);
1602: STC 20711 (Alston XVIII.II.I.14);
1607: STC 20713 (Alston XVIII.II.I.15);
1609: STC 20714 (Alston XVIII.II.I.16);
1615: STC 20715 (Alston XVIII.II.I.17);
1618: STC 20715a (Alston XVIII.II.I.18);
1629: STC 20717;
1636: STC 20718;
1641: Wing R286, R287;
1642: Wing R288;
1659: Wing R289;
1667: Wing R290;
1671: Wing R291;
1685: Wing R292;
Cambridge University Library Dd.6.60