An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same

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An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same
Author
Rastell, John, d. 1536.
Publication
At London :: Printed by th'assignee of Charles Yetsweirt Esq. deceased. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis,
1595.
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Law -- England -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10426.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2025.

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Suit reall.

SVit reall, is when men come to the shirifes turne or leete, to which court all men shal bee com∣pelled to come to knowe the lawes, so that they shal not be ignorant of things that shalbee declared there how they shalbe gouerned. And it is called reall siute because of their allegeāce▪ and this appeareth by cō∣mon experience when one is sworne, his othe is, that he shalbe a loyall and faithful man to ye Quéene. And this suite is not for the land which he holdeth within the Countie, but by reason of his person,

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and his abode there, and ought to bee done twise a yere, for default whereof, he shall be amerced and not distrained.

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