Law
Found in 379 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of miscellaneous writings chiefly relating to the administration of law and justice, Seventeenth century
(1) Precedents relating to the office of a Justice of the Peace, containing forms of warrants, indentures, recognizances, licences, commitments, etc., with an index; (2) pages from a copybook; (3) a copy of ‘Orders agreed upon for the house of correction at Acle, the 10th of May, 1611; on the last page occurs the name of ‘Anthony Parmenter’, in whose handwriting the book appears to be.
Collection of pleadings, Mid-sixteenth century
Transcripts of pleadings from the time of King Henry VI, including a record of a 'placitum detentionis syngraphi obligatorii'. The whole work is apparently a transcript from the Rotuli placitorum, preserved in the Public Records.
Collection of tracts, Early seventeenth century
Collection of tracts, Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Collection of tracts, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Collection of tracts, Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries
(1) 'Francis Junius his lectures upon the prophet Jonah', with many corrections; it is apparently a translation of the Latin treatise, Opp. Genevæ, 1593, volume I, p. 1330; (2) notes taken at lectures on civil law, during the reign of King Charles I; (3) removed from the volume and described separately.
Collection of tracts and law cases, Seventeenth century
Collection of tracts and other writings, Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
Collection of tracts, speeches and other writings, Fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
Collections per Mr Golsborough un des prothonotaries del Comun Banke, Early seventeenth century
Cases and legal dicta , mostly written in a law-clerk's hand but some possibly written by Mr Golsborough. With indexes.
Commentary on the Digest, Mid seventeenth century
A running commentary on the various books and titlesof the Digest of Roman laws, illustrated from the early commentators. It commences 'De ratihabitione sic statuendum', and ends with Tit. 9, 'Pro legato'.
Commonplace book and book of precedents, Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The first 80 pages of the volume form a commonplace book written in the seventeenth century. At the end of the book reversed are 11 leaves of writing of which six written in 1556 were intended to form part of a book of precedents; on f. 8 is 'An elegie upon the deathe of the righte worthye Sr Thomas Griffine, knighte', beginning 'I labor not to know why Griffine died...'; on ff. 9 and 10 are 'An indenture of mortgage of a manor', and on f. 11 are forms of conveyance dated 1611.
Commonplace Book of Religious Poetry
Commonplace collection containing religious poetry, copies of letters, cuttings, etc., including material relating to Byron and Napoleon, written in several hands, 269 folios. There is an index of contents on pp. iv-xi.
Compendium of Greek grammar / legal treatise, Late seventeenth century
(1) ‘Compendium Græcæ grammaticæ Thomæ Wheeler’; the first five leaves contain ‘Regulæ generales scholæ, and mention the portions of grammar, etc., which the scholars are to learn daily; and are subscribed Thomas Wheeler, 1686 (see also MS Dd.11.68); (2) ‘Sir Edward Cooke’s treatise of baile and mainprise’, arranged into 12 chapters; see also MS Ii.05.09, no. 7.
Copies from year-books, Mid sixteenth century
A copy of the year-books from 40th to 50th Edw. III.
Copies of decrees and censures, Seventeenth century
Copies of documents relating to ecclesiastical courts, Mid sixteenth century
A collection of libels, sentences, depositions of witnesses, inhibitions, etc., in the Court of Arches and other ecclesiastical courts in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Copies of documents relating to forests and manors in the Middle Ages, Late sixteenth century
(1) Courts held for the forest of Barnwood in Buckinghamshire, in the reigns of King Richard II, King Henry IV, King Henry V, King Henry VI and King Edward IV, and a few notes relating to the reign of Philip and Queen Mary I; (2) 'Extenta manerii de Borestall facta 15 Hen. VI' and 26 Hen. VI; (3) a perambulation of the king's forests in Buckinghamshire, 26 Edw. I.
Copies of legal, diplomatic and political documents from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Seventeenth century
Copies of medieval royal, parliamentary and legal records, Seventeenth century
Copies of orders made in the court of Star Chamber, Mid seventeenth century
The orders are from the time of Queen Elizabeth I; begins 'Thomas Egerton dominus custos magni sigilli Angliæ intr. sexto die Maii anno tricesimo octavo reginæ Eliz.'
Copies of royal letters and legal documents, Mid or late seventeenth century
Courtney Stanhope Kenny papers, 1708 - 1930
Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.
Dictionary of law terms, Early seventeenth century
English and French is given in parallel columns; the English entries run from 'Abate' to 'Yard land'.
Digest book, or index to the law reports, Seventeenth century
Arranged alphabetically from 'Abatement' to'Waste'. The volumes are paged throughout, but irregularly, many leaves being interspersed unpaged, some blank, some bering entries. At the end a table or alphabetical index has been begun, but only one page is completed.