A treatise of the principal grounds and maximes of the lawes of this nation very usefull and commodious for all students and such others as desire the knowledge and understandings of the laws / written by that most excellent and learned expositor of the law, W.N.

Abbutt.

Abbutto is a verbe used by Lawyers, to shew how the heads of Lands do lie, and upon what other Lands or places, denoting for the more certainty, what Lands, &c. are adjacent about the Lands, &c. abbuttelled. And now that I may speak once for all, in regard that Lawyers do use to abbreviate their words in writing, the reason is not as some ignorant∣ly have supposed, because they cannot ex∣press their terminations and endings, as they ought to be, but because of the multiplicity of business which they are to go through, oftentimes requiring very suddain dispatch. Yet I could wish that the custome of short writing alicui scriptori non esset dispendium, but I fear me too many hereby take occasion to be wilfully ignorant, which otherwise per∣adventure they would not do.