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Creation Date
1620
Description
Fulbecke, William. A Direction of Preparative to the Study of the Law: Wherein is Shewed, What Things Ought to be Observed and Used of Them That are Addicted to the Study of Law, and What on the Contrary Part Ought to be Eschewed and Avoyded. 2nd ed. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1620.
Written as advice for the new student reading the law, William Fulbecke's (1559/60–1616) Direction provides readers with a range of information, both useful and speculative. Legal historian Sir William Holdsworth (1871–1944) describes the annotated list of civil and common law books as "perhaps the most useful part of the book." It also includes numerous suggestions regarding study methods such as the suggestion to create your own abridgment and an admonition against evening study. A ground-breaking work, it quickly inspired similar treatises.
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Item from the personal collection of Sid Lapidus, used with permission.