The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, Branched into a Double...
A Copy with a Notable Irish Association Bacon, Sir Francis [1561-1626]. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, Branched Into a Double Tract: The One Containing a Collection of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, With Their Latitude and Extent. Explicated for the More Facile Introduction of Such as are Studiously Addicted to that Noble Profession. The Other the Use of the Common Law, For Preservation of Our Persons, Goods, And Good Names. According to the Lawes and Customes of this Land. London: Printed by the Assignes of I. More Esquire, 1639. [xx], 94 [i.e. 90]; [8], 72 pp. Lacking final leaf, a blank. Two parts, each with separate title page and pagination, second part titled The Use of the Law. Quarto (7" x 5-1/2"). Disbound, moderate soiling to exterior, light wear and folds to outside corners of preliminaries and final few leaves, armorial bookplate of Constantine Phipps to verso of title page. Moderate toning, faint dampstaining and foxing to margins in a few places, "34" in faint pencil, fragment of thumb tab and stamp of Birmingham Law Society to main title page, other Birmingham stamps to title page of The Use and a few other leaves. $1,500. * Fifth edition, and the last as an independent work. One of the great intellectuals of his era, Bacon held the posts of Solicitor General, Attorney General and Lord Chancellor during the reign of James I. The Elements of the Common Laws of England is the general title for a work that is comprised of two different treatises: A Collection of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England and The Use of the Law, Provided for the Preservation of Our Persons, Goods and Good Names. The first contains a set of twenty-five maxims, or regulae, one of the earliest, if not the first, collections of maxims on English law. This collection was intended to be the first part of De Regulis Juris, a codification of English law that Bacon never completed. The second treatise is a review of the history and practical application of criminal law, estate law, personal property law and the law of slander. As noted by the ESTC, The Use of the Law is probably not by Bacon; it was first printed anonymously as Part II of The Lawyers Light (1629) by Sir John Doddridge. Constantine.
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