Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
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Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
Author
Rastell, John, d. 1536.
Publication
London :: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For G. Walbanke, S. Heyrick, J. Place, J. Poole, and R. Sare,
1685.
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Law -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Common Fine.
COmmon Fine is a certain
summe of Money which the
Resiants in a Leet pay unto
the Lord of the Leet; and it is
called in some places Head-silver,
in some places Certum Letae, and
was (as it seems) first grant∣ed
to the Lord towards the
charge of his purchase of the
Leet, whereby the Resiants
had now an ease to do their
Suit royal within the Man∣nor,
and not be compelled to go
to the Sherifs Tourn to do it.
And for this Common Fine
the Lord must prescribe, and
cannot distrain for it without
descriptionPage 164
a prescription, as it appears
in Godfrey's Case, in 11. Rep. fo.
44. b.
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