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A new law-dictionary: containing, the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; as also the law and practice under the proper heads and titles ... Adapted to the use of barristers, students, and practisers of the law ... The ninth edition, with great additions and improvements ... Originally compiled by Giles Jacob, now corrected and greatly enlarged by Owen Ruffhead and J. Morgan, Esquires
by Jacob, Giles, Owen Ruffhead, & J. Morgan
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London: printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for J. Beecroft [et al.], 1772. Folio, pp. [6] and unpaginated lexicon in double column; full contemporary calf, red morocco label on spine; lower joint cracked, top of spine chipped level with text block, otherwise a very good, sound copy. Includes "the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government, collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, commentaries, reports, yearbooks, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time." Vancil, p. 119; not in Zischka.
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- A new law-dictionary: containing, the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; as also the law and practice under the proper heads and titles ... Adapted to the use of barristers, students, and practisers of the law ... The ninth edition, with great additions and improvements ... Originally compiled by Giles Jacob, now corrected and greatly enlarged by Owen Ruffhead and J. Morgan, Esquires
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- Jacob, Giles, Owen Ruffhead, & J. Morgan
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- printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for J. Beecroft [et al.]
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- London
- Date Published
- 1772
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