Law
Found in 390 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Discourse, treatise and queries, Mid seventeenth century
(1) 'A discourse upon the comission of Bridewell'; (2) 'A treatise concernant le ley fait com suppose per Zouch'; (3) '30 queries of parsons and of parsonages'. The Zouch to whom the first portion is assigned has been tentatively identified as Dr Richard Zouch, regius professor of civil law at the University of Oxford.
Discourses and notes on legal subjects, 1611-1614
Divers and uncertayne discourses del ley', together with notes of several readings, from 2 March 1611 to 6 August 1614. On the first page is written 'By mee Thomas Wateridge'. About the middle of the book are 12 pages headed 'Joco seria. Of divers subts.'; these consist of anecdotes related by members of the Inn, in the year 1611.
Discourses on the marriage of Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, and Lady Catherine Grey, Late sixteenth century
Documents relating to nobility, privileges and legal cases, Early seventeenth century
Excerpts from the rolls, Sixteenth century
Copies from the rolls of the time of King Henry III. Prefixed is a list of the editions of the ancient physicians in a hand similar to that of Richard Bentley.
Extracts from public rolls, Early seventeenth century
Extracts from the public rolls concerning pleas of the forest in the county of Oxford, taken before W. le Breton, 40 Hen. III.
Extracts from the rolls, Sixteenth or seventeenth century
Extracts from the rolls in the tower concerning the tenure of lands in the counties of Dorset and Berkshire, extending from the reign of King Edward II to Queen Elizabeth I.
Forest laws and ordinances from Canute to Henry VIII, Late sixteenth century
The only article in English is the charter of King Edward the Confessor beginning 'Iche Edward kinge have given of my forest keepinge ...'. At the end of the volume is a folding leaf containing a table of the sovereigns of England from King Edward the Confessor to Queen Elizabeth I, giving the period of their respective reigns, date of their death, and location of their tomb.
Forms of instruments in ecclesiastical courts, Seventeenth century
A collection of forms of licences, citations, sequestrations and other instruments in the ecclesiastical courts; issued principally in the name of Robert King. The volume also contains a few notes of pleadings from the reign of King Charles I.
Forms of proceedings in ecclesiastical courts
Many are in the name of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Incomplete.
Frederic William Maitland: Lectures on Real Property
Frederic William Maitland: Papers
Printers sheets, lecture notes and notes on constitutional history and law.
F.W. Maitland manuscripts, 1884 - 1920
Also with a scrapbook compiled by Fredegond Shove
George Chawner: Papers
George Robert Graham Conway: Transcripts from National Archives of Mexico
Henry Elsynge: Judicature in Parliament
Henry Elsynge, 'Judicature in Parliament', 81 folios. On folio i v is 'E Libris MSS Geo. Pryme Hospit: Lincol: Westmon. AD 1806'. The entry at front of the volume is to George Pryme, M.A. (1781-1868), the only son of Christopher Pryme of Hull. George attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1803. He was Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, 1828-1863.
History of Chinese Law (Mediaeval), 1948 - 1976-10
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Index to matters contained in the statutes, Early sixteenth century
Arranged alphabetically, commencing with 'Chivaler' and ending with 'Staple', which is not complete. The manuscript is incomplete at the beginning, the leaves being numbered from 9 to 47.
Inquisitiones post mortem and other court and legal documents relating to Cambridgeshire and the locality, Seventeenth century
Inquisitions taken at Cambridge and Huntingdon, Mid seventeenth century
A booke of inquisicons taken at Cambridge and Hunt.', concerning the estates of various people, in the years 1636-39 and 1644. At the end are inserted various forms for legal documents and 'fforma elegendi episc. Eliens'.
Irish legal records
Abstracts of cases, precedents, pardons, and fines, with related material, temp. Edward I - temp. Edward IV. Second hand at pp. 51-3. Third hand intermingled with main hand at pp. 147-58. Inside front cover: bookplate of Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, and on p. 1 his autograph with the date 19 Sep. 1840.
Islendsk Landslaga Bók Utgefen aff Magnuse Konge [Jónsbók]
John Frederick Stanford: Commentary on the Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife in Wurtzburg
'Curious Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife according to Statutes of the ancient City of Wurtzburg', a commentary to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 6 December 1841, by J.F. Stanford, 10 folios. On folios 6 and 7 are nine drawings. Folios 8-10 are blank, as is the verso. On fo. 1v is '49' (circled). The manuscript is in a box with MS.Add.6573/2.
The UK Archival Thesaurus has been integrated with our catalogue, thanks to Kings College London and the AIM25 project for their support with this.

