A new law-dictionary: containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; as also the whole law and practice thereof, under all the proper heads and titles. Together with such informations relating thereto, as explain the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government. Collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time. And fitted for the use of barristers, students, and practisers of the law, Members of Parliament, and other gentlemen, justices of peace, clergymen, &c. The eighth edition. The law-proceedings being done into English, with great additions and improvements, from the latest reports and statutes to this time. To which is annexed, a table of references to all the arguments and resolutions of the Lord Chief Justice Holt; in the several volumes of the reports. By Giles Jacob, Gent.

Date:

MDCCLXII. [1762]