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EXposiciōes tmīo (rum) legū anglo (rum). Et na­tura

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breuiū cū diuersi (bus) casu (bus) regulis et fundamētis legum tam de libris Ma­gistri Litteltoni quā de aliis legum libris collectis & breuit compilatīs ꝓ Iuuini (bus) balde necessa­riis.

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THe exposicions of y e termys of y e law of england &

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the nature of the writtꝭ with diuers rulys & prin­cipalles of the law / as well out of the bokis of mayster lit­telton as of other bokis of the law gaderyd and breuely compylyd for yong men very necessarye.

A
  • ¶Abiuracion
  • Abatement
  • Abbe
  • Abbregemēt
  • Accessory
  • Accompt
  • Acciōs realz & ꝑsōels
  • Addicion
  • Administrator
  • Admesuremēt d dower
  • Admesuremēt d pasture
  • Age prayer
  • Ad quod dampnū
  • Adiournement
  • Amendment
  • Ayd
  • Ayd de toy
  • Ayle
  • Arest
  • Annuite
  • Assetz
  • Assise
  • Attornement
  • Attaynt
  • Auncion demesne
  • Audita querela
  • Auerment
  • Auowre
  • Alyon
  • Appropriacion
  • Aduowson
B
  • ¶Barr̄
  • Batell
  • Basterdy
  • Burglary
C
  • ¶Chamꝑtye
  • Charge
  • Cessauit
  • Cerciorare
  • Chymmyn
  • Cōtynuall clayme
  • Conusaūs de ple
  • Cōspyracy
  • Co [...]cyon
  • Comyn
  • Conterple
  • Consultacion
  • Contract
  • Contra formam fe­offamenti
  • Contra formā cola [...]cionis
  • Cosyn age
  • Couenaūt
  • Cui in vita
  • Cui āte deuorciū
D
  • ¶Daren p̄sētmēt
  • Deuyse
  • denizyn
  • Decies tantū
  • Deꝑter
  • Det
  • Diem clausit extre­mum
  • Disclaymer
  • Disseisor & disseyse
  • Discontinuance
  • Disceyt
  • Demaūdāt & [...]
  • Defēdāt & [...]
  • Distres [...]
  • [...]
  • [Page]Dedimꝰ potestatem
  • Demurrer
  • Dowbleple
  • Dower
  • Droyt
  • Dures
  • Dū nō fuit cōpos mē ­tis
  • Dū fuit īfra etatem
E
  • ¶Entre
  • Eiectmēt de garde
  • Elegit
  • Errour
  • Esson
  • Estray
  • Eieccione firme
  • Escape
  • Eschete
  • Estripament
  • Executours
  • Exchaunge
  • Excōmengement
  • Execucion
  • Extynguysment
  • Exigent
  • Ex ꝑte talis
  • Ex graui querela
F
  • ¶Faux inprisonmēt
  • Faux iuggement
  • Fee symple
  • Fee tayle
  • Feffement
  • Formedone
  • Foirger de faux faitis
  • [...]
  • [...]
  • [...]
  • ¶Gard
  • Garrantye dez chr̄s
  • Garrantye
  • Gager de delyueraūce
  • Garnyshment
  • Graunt cape
H
  • ¶Homage
I
  • Ioynt tenaūtis
  • Idemptitate noīs
L
  • ¶Ley
  • Lesses
M
  • ¶Maynprise
  • Mayntenaūce
  • Mesne
  • Monstrauerūt
  • Mordauncestor
  • Mortmayn
  • Moderata mīa
N
  • ¶Natiuo habendo
  • Non habilite
  • Nusauns
  • Nuꝑ obiit
  • Ne iniuste vexes
  • Ne admittas
O
  • ¶Oyer & terminer
P
  • ¶Par queseruicia
  • Prescripcion
  • Presentment
  • Premunire
  • Precipe in capite
  • Par ābulacōe faciēda
  • Petit cape
  • Proteccion
  • Prohibicyon
  • Procedendo
Q
  • ¶Quare impedit
  • Quare nō admisit
  • Quare incūbrauit
  • Quale ius
  • Quarantyne
  • Quare eiecit infra terminum
  • Quid iuris clamat
  • Quare itrusit matrīo
  • Quod ꝑmittat
  • Quo iure
  • Quod eiyyy deforciat
  • Quo waranto
R
  • ¶Relief
  • Remitty
  • Replicacion
  • Repleuyn
  • Rescous
  • Resceyt
S
  • ¶Scire facias et bre [...] fys iudicyallꝭ.
T
  • ¶Tayle
  • Treason
  • Tresur troue
w
  • ¶wast
  • ¶Vew
  • Vt laica remouends
  • wythernam
  • Vtrum
  • Vtlary
  • Voucher

¶Prologus Iohīs Rastell.

¶Lyke wyse as the vniuersall worlde can neuer haue his continuans but only by y e order & law of nature whych cōpellyth eue­ry thyng to do his kind so ther is no multytude of pepyll in no realme y t can continue in vnite and pease without they be therto cōpellyd by some good order & law / wherfore a good law obseruyd causith euer good peple and a good resonable cōmyn law makith a gode cōmyn pease & a comyn welth a mong a grete cōmynalte of peple / & one good gouernour whyche causyth one law to be obseruyd among dyuers & myche peple bryngeth dyuerse & myche peple to one good vnyte / but dyuerse rulers and gouernours & diuers orders and laws one contrary to a nother and when that euery gouernour wyl haue the law after hys mynde bryngeth one multy­tude of peple to varyauns and deuysyon / for as euery man is varyaunt from other in visage so they be varyable in mynde & condicyon / therfore one law and one gouernour for one realme & for one peple is most neces­sary / And also lake of law causyth many wrōgꝭ to be cōmittyd willyngly And lake of knowlege of y e law causyth dyuers wrongys to be done by ne­clygēs / therfore sith law is necessary to be had & a verteoꝰ & a good thing / ergo to haue the knolege therof is necessary & a verteous & a gode thīg / & that that is verteoꝰ & good is good for euery mā to vse / ergo it folowyth it is a good thyng for euery man to haue the knolege of y e lawe And syth that it is nescessary for euery realme to haue a lawe resonable & sufficient to gouerne the grete multytude of y e peple / ergo it is necessary▪ y t the gret multitude of the peple haue y e knolege of the same law to the whiche they be bound / ergo it folowyth that y e law in euery realme shuld be so publys­shyd declaryd and wrytton in such wyse that y e peple so boūd to the same myght sone and shortely come to the knowlege therof / or ellys such a law so kept secretly in the knowlege of a few persones and from the know­lege of y e great multytude may rather be callyd a trape & a net to brynge the peple to vexacion & trobyll than a good order to bringe them to pease & quietnes / and for as mych as the law of thys realme of englond is ordey nyd and deuysyd for the augmētacion of iustyce & for the quietnes of the peple & for the cōmyn welth of the same / ergo it is conuenient y t euery one withī this realm boūd to the same may haue y e knolege therof and not resonable y t any suche weys shuld be had or vsyd wherby the peple shuld be yngnoraunt of the law / or shulde be exilyd or restraynyd from the know­lege therof. I therfore cōsideringe these forsayd causes haue taken vpon me this lytell labour and study to declare and to expown certeyn obscur [...] [Page] and derke termys cōsernyng the lawis of thys realme and y e nature of certeyne wryttꝭ for the helpe & erudicyon of them that be yong begīners whych intend to be studyētys of the law for as the phylosopher seythe / Ignoratis terminis ignoratur & ars / that is to sey he that is ignorant of the termys of any sciens must nedys be ignorant of y e sciens / but yet I haue not enterprysyd thys for y t that I thynke my selfe sufficient and able to expowne them as substancially as other depe lernyd men can do / but to the entent that som ease and furtheraūce of lernyng may com to yong studyentꝭ by redyng of thys same And also I haue compylyd and indytyd thys lyttyll worke fyrst in the frenche tong as is vsyd in the bo­kys of our law & after translatyd thys same cōpylacion in to our english tong to the entent that such yong studyentꝭ may the soner atteyne to y e knowlege of the frenche tong / which knowlege so had shalbe a great hel­pe & furtheraūce vnto them whan they shall study other higher workes of the law of more dyfyculte as be the bokys of yerys and termys & other bokes which be writtyn in the frenche tong / whereby they shall come to y e more knowlege of the law / which knowlege of the law so had and y e trew execuciō of the same law shalbe grealy to the augmentacion of y e cōmyn welthe of thys realme. whych the eternall god incresse & preserue to hys great honour & glory. AMEN

¶Inprynted at london in Chepesyde at Powles gate. ¶Cum priuilegio regali.

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Iohannes· Rastell

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