Reports and cases collected by the learned, Sir John Popham, knight ... ; written with his own hand in French, and now faithfully translated into English ; to which are added some remarkable cases reported by other learned pens since his death ; with an alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters contained in this booke.
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Reports and cases collected by the learned, Sir John Popham, knight ... ; written with his own hand in French, and now faithfully translated into English ; to which are added some remarkable cases reported by other learned pens since his death ; with an alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters contained in this booke.
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Popham, John, Sir, 1531?-1607.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1656.
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Law reports, digests, etc. -- England.
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"Reports and cases collected by the learned, Sir John Popham, knight ... ; written with his own hand in French, and now faithfully translated into English ; to which are added some remarkable cases reported by other learned pens since his death ; with an alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters contained in this booke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55452.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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The same Term in the same Court. Powels Case.
POwel an Vtter-Barister of the Temple, and also Town-Clark of Pli∣moth, brought an Action upon the Case against for these words; The Defendant supposing that the Plaintiff had wronged him in the Court of Plimoth, said, that he was a Puritan Knave, a precise Knave, a bri∣bing Knave, a corrupted Knave, and that he would make him answer for that which he had done in another place: And after Verdict for the Plaintiff, it was now moved in Arrest of Iudgment that the words were not actionable, because he doth not scandalize him in his Profession by which he acquires his Living.
And Mountague chief Iustice said, that this word Bribing doth not im∣port that he took a Bribe, and therfore this word and all the other words, but (corrupted Knave) are idle, but these words impeacheth him in his Office, for it hath reference to that, and therfore is actionable: And Iudgment was given accordingly.
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Words, That he was a Puritan Knave, a precise Knave, a bri∣bing Knave, a corrupted Knave, &c.