Some Olde Lawe Bookes of Historical Renown
 

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KD 600 .I57 1601

Creation Date

1601

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Institutions, or, Principall Grounds of the Lawes and Statutes of England. London: Printed by Thomas Wight, 1601.

Written for the beginning student and focusing mainly on issues of property, Institutions was first published in 1538. A popular work even amongst practitioners, it was repeatedly republished with as many as twenty editions appearing into the seventeenth century. This copy includes the bookplate of William Harrison of Salmesbury Hall, Preston, Lancashire on the front pastedown and earlier owners' signatures to the front endleaf and title page.

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