Styles's Practical Register, Begun in the Reign of King Charles I.

1707 Edition of Style's Practical Register in a Contemporary Binding Style, William [1603-1679]. Styles's Practical Register, Begun in the Reign of King Charles I. Consisting of Rules, Orders, and the Principal Observations Concerning the Practice of the Common Law in the Courts at Westminster. Particularly the King's Bench, As Well in Matters Criminal as Civil. Carefully Continued Down to this Time from Modern Reports. Alphabetically Digested Under Several Titles. With a Table for the Ready Finding Out of Those Titles. With Large Additions. London: Printed for C. Harper, D. Brown, N. Walthoe & D. Medwinter, 1707. [xv], 682, [6] pp. Publisher advertisement facing title page. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Negligible shallow scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to corners, tiny chip to head of spine, front joint starting at ends, hinges cracked. Moderate toning, faint spotting in a few places, folds to lower outside corners of a few leaves. $250. * Fourth edition. This popular guide was first published in 1657 with the title Regestrum Practicale. (Its early editions are called Regula Placitandi in Comyns's Digest of the Laws of England). Arranged alphabetically, it contains the rules for practice, together with some basic information regarding the substantive law. John Lilly published a continuation volume in 1710. English Short-Title Catalogue T152265. …