Law
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 320 Collections and/or Records:
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Translation of Anglo-Saxon laws
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1029
Scope and Contents
'Sketch of a plan for a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon laws etc.', unsigned.
Dates:
1820 (Circa)
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Treatise on cases in chancery, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.26
Scope and Contents
'Causes in chancerie gathered by Sir George Davys one of the masters of the chancerie anno 1601 out of the labours of Mr William Lambert'.
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
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Treatise on forests, c. 1600
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.39
Scope and Contents
'A readinge or declaracion of th' authorityes, libertyes, and offices of a forest, made uppon the statute called Carta de foresta by one Traherne de Lincoln's Inn'.
Dates:
c. 1600
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Treatise on Scottish law, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.21
Scope and Contents
The work is divided into two parts. The first is 'The abridgement of forme of process befor the lords', together with 'The tabulating of summons'. The second is 'Ane abridgement of the most materiall acts of parliament selected according to the order of the alphabet, by Sir Andrew Gilmour, advocate, knight and baronett, 1668'.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
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Treatise on the city of London / legal reports, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.09
Scope and Contents
'The liberties, ffranchises and customes of the cittie of London'; this is followed by reports of cases heard by Sir Edward Coke.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Treatise on the college of justice and session, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.35
Scope and Contents
'Certane practicques drawin furth of certane processe before ye lordis of the college of justice and sessione; and decretis of the same, collectit and sett furth be Sir Richard Maitland, of Lethingtoun, knyght, and of the senatoris of the said college'. The dates annexed to these entries all lie between 1550 and 1577.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Treatise on the court of chancery, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.31
Scope and Contents
A collection of rules, orders and forms of proceeding in the court of chancery, beginning 'There is nothing more usuall than the name of equitie and scarce anything more obscure and difficult than the matter itself. Notwithstanding amongst divers and sundry descriptions which the civilians and canonists offer, these may serve for a generall taste of the nature and force therof'. With an index. At the end of the treatise appears 'A probleme whence it comes to passe that the court of chancerie...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Treatise on the court of exchequer, Mid or late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.07
Scope and Contents
‘A shorte compendium, or briefe declaration of what every officer of his ma’ties courte of exchequer ought to doe by vertue of his office in England; as alsoe the articles of the unitinge of the late courts of augmentations and revenewes of the Crowne, and the late courte of first fruites and tenthes to the courte of exchequer att Westminster: written att the request of the right honoble the Lord Buckhurst lord treasuror of England [Thomas Sackville] in the raigne of our late soveraigne lord...
Dates:
Mid or late seventeenth century
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Treatise on the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.54
Scope and Contents
Includes 'the generall practicall proceedings' of the court. The treatise begins 'To sette forth exactly the dignity of the high court of starre chamber would require the penne of a deep judgment ...'. The 'proceedings' begin 'All suites which frequent this courte are brought hither, either by some perticular person complayning, or else by the very vigilant eye of state ...'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Treatises on courts, 1629
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.12
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Praxis Francisci Clarke, tam ius dicentibus, quam aliis omnibus qui in foro ecclesiastico versantur, apprime utilis’; this title, the manuscript being without one, is given from the edition printed in Dublin in 1666. The epistle dedicatory in the manuscript differs considerably from that in the printed copy, and there are occasional verbal variations throughout the work. The index has been misbound between ff. 24 and 25 of the following item; (2) ‘Modus procedendi in curia admiralitatis...
Dates:
1629
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Two treatises on the court of Star Chamber, and Annotationes sur Littleton, 1625 - 1649
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.04.10
Scope and Contents
(1) 'A Treatise of the Court of Star-chamber' by William Hudson of Gray's Inn, Esq. For the authority upon which this is ascribed to Hudson, see note on LI.03.03. Dated 1633. (2) 'The Corse and Proceedings of all Causes in the high Corte of Star-Chamber, from the serving of originall Subpoenas to the hearing and sentences of Causes.' Dated 1633. (3) Near the end of the volume, written with the book reversed, extending over 7 leaves, are 'Annotationes sur Littleton.—Fee Simple et Fee...
Dates:
1625 - 1649
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Various law collections, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.48
Scope and Contents
After 7 leaves of index, follow 34 leaves of a transcript of Sir John Doderidge's work on law, 'The lawyer's light'. Then follow notes under various heads, not arranged alphabetically. A large part of the book is blank. On the back of the last leaf is a letter written to a lady, signed 'R. T.', son or daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas Myddleton.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Visus Computationum Firmariorum, Ballivorum, &c., Honoris de Penrithe cum Foresta de Inglewood, Com. Cumbr., quondam parcell' terrarum et possessionum Ricardi nuper Ducis Gloucestr'., pro duobus annis integris finitis ad Festum S. Michaelis, Anno Regis [Jacobi I.] xix, 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
1603 - 1625
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Walter Johnson and Maurice Johnson: notes on civil and canon law
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10420
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is titled 'Cases in civil law, and in the canon law. MSS. Collected at Cambridge by the Reverend Walter Johnson LLB. rector of Red Marshall in the diocoes of Durham SGSS. during his attending the lectures of the learned Dr Francis Dickens the Law professor at Cambridge. With others by Maurice Johnson of the Hon:ble Society of the Inner Temple London. And precedents, formulae, references and remarkes in cases of administration to intestates etc. MSS MJ No. CXXXIV'. The legal...
Dates:
1720s-1740s?
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Warrants for disafforestation, 1637-1639
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.03.05
Scope and Contents
Warrants of the lord treasurer and other commissioners for the disafforesting of lands.
Dates:
1637-1639
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William Lambarde on the Office of compositions for alienations, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.29
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Discourse of the office of compositions for alienations’, beginning ‘All the finances (or revenues) of the imperial crowne of this realme of England bee, eyther extraordinarie, or ordinary ...’; subjoined is a note, ‘Look the enlarged copie hereof in 4o. which was done in Novemb. 1595’; (2) ‘A declaration of the yearely profites of this office (prima facie) synce the first erection thereof’ [18 Eliz.]; (3) ‘The casual and standing fees theare’; (4) ‘Precedentes of the practize theare’;...
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Writings of Sir Thomas Littleton, Probably seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.02
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two parts; firstly an unfinished copy of Littleton's treatise on tenures, extending only to 'Breve de intrusione'; secondly his treatise 'De natura brevium'.
Dates:
Probably seventeenth century
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Writings on courts and the practice of an attorney, Undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.49
Scope and Contents
(1) 'Of the courts of this realme'; (2) 'Certaine briefe noates and instructions necessarie for such as are towards practise of an attourney in the Comon Pleas or Court of Comon Pleas with the rules and orders incident to the same courte, and alsoe what manner of accons such an attorney may pleade'; this section is on leaves numbered 1 to 64, but appears to be supplementary to (1).
Dates:
Undated
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Writings on nobility and heraldry, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.86.08
Scope and Contents
(1) An account of the persons that are noble, and their ranks; and a few remarks on heraldry; (2) 'A consideracion of the office and duty of a herauld in England drawn out of sundry observacions by John Doddridge the kinges Solicitor Generall at the instance of H. Earle of Northampton in August 1605'; (3) 'A catalogue of the nobility of England according to their creations, temp. Jac. I.'
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Writings on the court of Star Chamber, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.58
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Annotationes nonnullæ regulæ et feoda, Cameræ Stellatæ curiæ concernentes brevissime collectæ’; a short analysis, in English, of the forms of proceeding in the Star Chamber; (2) ‘An exact compendium of the whole course of the court of Starr Chamber’, apparently based on R. Crompton’s treatise on the jurisdiction of courts published in 1641.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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