A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understanding of Statutes: With Sir Thomas Egerton's Additions. Edited From Manuscripts in the Huntington Library

ISBN-13: 9781584773559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Samuel E. Thorne; Sir Thomas Egerton

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Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Originally published: San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942. vii, 194 pp. Thorne’s edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [1540?–1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. Reprint of first edition.