Of the law-terms, a discourse wherein the laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to this subject are fully explained / written by ... Sir Henry Spelman, Kt.

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Of the law-terms, a discourse wherein the laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to this subject are fully explained / written by ... Sir Henry Spelman, Kt.
Author
Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.
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London :: Printed for Matthew Gillyflower ...,
1684.
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Law -- Terminology -- Early works to 1800.
Law -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.
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"Of the law-terms, a discourse wherein the laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to this subject are fully explained / written by ... Sir Henry Spelman, Kt." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61093.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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CHAP. VI.

That our Terms take their Original from the Canon Law.

THUS we leave the Canon Law, and come home to our own Country, which out of these, and such other foreign Constitutions (for many

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more there are) has framed our Terms, not by chusing any set por¦tion of the year for them, but by taking up such times for that purpose, as the Church and common Necessity (for collecting the fruits of the Earth) left undisposed of, as in that which followeth plainly shall appear.

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