Practica Walliae; Or the Proceedings in the Great Sessions of Wales...
A Significant Early Treatise on Welsh Law Vaughan, Rice. Practica Walliae; Or the Proceedings in the Great Sessions of Wales: Containing the Method and Practice of an Attorney There, From an Original to the Execution. Whereunto is Added, The Old Statute of Wales at Large; And an Abridgement of All the Statutes Uniting Wales to England: With Tables of the Fees, And the Matters Therein Contained. London: Printed for Henry Twyford, John Streater, And Eliz. Flesher, 1672. [xii], 203, [13] pp. 12mo. (5-1/4" x 3"). Recent calf, blind frames to boards, gilt title and fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to a few leaves, library stamps to title page and a few other leaves, margins trimmed closely with minor loss in places, light soiling and minor edgewear to title page, following leaf and final two leaves. $850. * Only edition. This was the only early legal treatise on Welsh law following the 1536 Act of Union between England and Wales and the establishment of the Court of Great Session in 1543. It includes, in an appendix, an abridgement of all statutes uniting Wales to England. Vaughan, an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and economist, is known today as the author of A Discourse on Coins and Coinage (1675), a seminal study of currency. This is a scarce title. OCLC locates 1 copy in a North American law library (Harvard). The ESTC adds one more (Library of Congress). English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) R3656.
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