A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...

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A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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London :: Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1658.
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Law -- Terminology.
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"A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50063.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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ALMS.

Alms, and relief of poor people, being a work* 1.1 of charity, is accounted in Law Divine Service, for what herein is done to the poor for Gods sake, is done to God himself.* 1.2

If it were ordained that no Alms should be gi∣ven for no necessity, this Custom and Statute were void, because no generall Custom of Statute must be directly against the Law of God. Never∣theless, the Statute in the 24 year of King Ed. 3. whereby it is ordained. That no man under pain of imprisonment, shall give any alms to any vagrant beggers that may well labour, that they may so be compelled to labour for their living, is a good Statute, for it observeth the intent of the Law of God.

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