Narrationes Modernae, or Modern Reports begun in the now Upper Bench Court at Westminster, in the Beginning of Hillary Term 21 Caroli, and Continued to the end of Michaelmas Term 1655 as well on the Criminall on the Pleas side ...
London: F.L. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, G. Bedel, and C. Adams, 1658. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [20], 1-483, [37] pp. Eighteenth-century calf with black borders on the boards, boards top and bottom edges with a gold fillet, spine in six compartments with a black leather label lettered in gold, gold rules on the spine. Completing the title page: "Most of which time the late Lord Chief Justice Roll gave the rule there. With necessary tables for the ready finding out and making use of the matters contained in the whole book. And an addition of the number rolls to most of the remarkable cases. W & M Law Library, "Narrationes Modernae, or, Modern Reports Begun in the Now Upper Bench Court at Westminster". A lawyer's reports on decisions handed down by two judges during the middle of the seventeenth century in England. An informative legal and historical record of the court during the Commonwealth. Very Good. Item #000017048
Rubbing to the leather on the joints and to the corners. A nineteenth-century bookplate on the front pastedown, a few ink underlines.
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