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Seventeenth-century legal notebook / Juristisches Notizbuch des 17. Jahrhunderts

am 10.01.2008 von Transblawg

Commonplace Books of Law: A Selection of Law-Related Notebooks from the Seventeenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
PAUL PRUITT, University of Alabama - School of Law
DAVID DURHAM, University of Alabama - School of Law

This collection of legal notebooks can be downloaded in full as a PDF. My attention was attracted by the Bounds Seventeenth-Century Legal Notebook, by several writers,

in many ways a mysterious compilation. Beginning with a page of household memoranda and recipes, written in two different hands,1 it continues with ten pages of notes of trials or moot courts, written in a distinct, informal hand.2


There are footnotes explaining the terms:

Tender & Refusall
[T]he laste pipen of huney made forty 7 pound. The pipen made ii [11] pounde and a halef so theri was but thity 5 pound and a halfe of the huney.

... For the Gout
Put three Good heads of Garlick in to a Quart of Brandy & when the Gout attacks the Stomack, drink four or five Spoonfull.

...Hill. Terme. 36. Car 2d.
Jan: 23. 1684.
Jury A Returne of Jurys without Sheriffs.
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