An abridgement of the Lord Coke's commentary on Littleton collected by an unknown author; yet by a late edition pretended to be Sir Humphrey Davenport, Kt. And in this second impression purged from very many gross errors committed in the said former edition. With a table of the most remarkable things therein.

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An abridgement of the Lord Coke's commentary on Littleton collected by an unknown author; yet by a late edition pretended to be Sir Humphrey Davenport, Kt. And in this second impression purged from very many gross errors committed in the said former edition. With a table of the most remarkable things therein.
Author
Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.
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London :: printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell,
1651.
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Littleton, Thomas, -- Sir, -- d. 1481 -- Early works to 1800.
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"An abridgement of the Lord Coke's commentary on Littleton collected by an unknown author; yet by a late edition pretended to be Sir Humphrey Davenport, Kt. And in this second impression purged from very many gross errors committed in the said former edition. With a table of the most remarkable things therein." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33621.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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Sect. 248.

Si parceners ne voilont agere a partition dest. fr. enter eux, donque lun poit aver breve partition fac. envers les auters, &c. & le vic. en son propter persona alera a les terres, &c. & per le serement de 12 loial homes de son bail, &c. il∣serra partit. enter les parties, &c.

There is a book in the Exchequer, called Dooms-day, dies judicii. Sententia ejusdem libri inficiari non potest, vel im∣pune declinari, ob hoc nos eundem librum judiciarum nomina∣mus.

Sheriffe is the Reve of the Shire, Praefectus Satrapiae, Pro∣vinciae, or Comitatus, & habet triplicem custodiam, 1 Vitae Legis, 2. Vitae Reipublicae. Vicecomes dicitur, quod vicem Comitis suppleat. Marculphus saith, This Office is, Judiciaria Dig∣nitas. Lampridius, That it is Officium Dignitatis. Forter saith, Quod Vicecomes est nobilis Officiarius. Fortesc. c. 24. R. 2. cap.

Page 175

Verum quod modo vocatur Comitatus, olim apud Britones temporibus Romanorum in Regno isto Btan. vocabatur con¦sulatus, & qui modo vocantur Vicecomites tunc temporis vi∣ce-consules vocabantur; ille verò dicebatur vice-consul qui consule absente ipsius vice supplebat in jure & in foro. Lam∣bert. fol. 129. 12.

Bayliff is an Officer concerning the administration of Ju∣stice of a certain Province. Flet. l. 2. c. 67.

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