John Herne, The Law of Conveyances (1656)

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Date
1656
Author
Book title
The Law of Conveyances, Shewing the Natures, Kinds, and Effects, of all manner of Assurances, with the manner of their several executions and operations. Also Directions to Sue out and Prosecute all manner of Writs, of Extent, Elegit, and Judiciall Writs upon Statutes, Recognizances, Judgments, &c. A Warrant to Summon a Court of Survey: and the Articles to be given in Charge, and Inquired of in that Court. With an Exposition of divers obscure Words and Termes of Law, used in Ancient Records, &c. And Also Plaine Decimall Tables, whereby may be found the true Values of Lands, Leases, and Estates, in Possession, or Reversion. With a Concordance of Years, &c.
Publication place
London
Printer
T. R.
Publisher
Henry Twyford and Thomas Dring
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • law
  • Old English
Summary
(a) "The interpretation, explanation, and meaning of divers words used in Ancient Charters, &c." (pp. 188-91); and (B) "Certain Saxon words in Doomsday Book expounded by Mr. Ager of the Receit in the Exchequer" (pp. 192-96)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Forstall. To be quit of amerciaments, and cattle arrested within your lands and the amerciaments thereof coming. (p. 190)
Wing
H 1570
Other editions
1658: Wing H 1571 (Alston XVVV.II.66; Thomason Tracts 202:E.1597 [2])