Les Termes De La Ley

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Title continues: "Or, Certain difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in use, expounded and explained. Now Corrected and Enlarged. W ith many Great and Useful Additions throughout the whole Book, never Printed in any other Impression." John Rastell (c. 1475 – 1536) was an English printer, author, member of parliament, and barrister, a brother-in-law of Sir Thomas More. First translated from French into English in 1527, possibly by Rastell's son William, this first English legal dictionary was reprinted many times. Show more