A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understanding of Statutes: With Sir Thomas Egerton's Additions. Edited From Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (1942)

Thorne, Samuel E

ISBN 10: 1584773553 / ISBN 13: 9781584773559

Published by Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understanding of Statutes: With Sir Thomas Egerton's Additions. Edited From Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (1942)
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584773553
• ISBN 13: 9781584773559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

SAMUEL EDMUND THORNE [1907-1994] was the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Legal History Emeritus at Harvard Law School and one of the 20th century's most distinguished historians of English law. In addition to this work, Thorne is known for his monumental and definitive translation of Bracton's four-volume Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, edited by George Woodbine.