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The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued
The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued Author:William Hughes Hughes, William. — The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued. Or, A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the Common-Law of England, Contained in All the Reports Extant, From the First of Elizabeth, to this present Time, By Way of Common-Place. A Work Very Usefull for All Students and Practitioners in the Law. With Two Tables, The One C... more »ontaining the Names of the Cases, The Other, Of the Matter of Every of the Said Cases. Published in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. London: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, 1660-1662. 3 Volumes; with Appendix, in 3 books. Main text in double columns. Reprint available April 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. With a new introduction by David J. Seipp, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-937-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-937-3. Cloth. $495.
* Sole edition. Hughes, a barrister of Gray's Inn, conceived this abridgement as a continuation of Edmund Wingate's Exact Abridgment of All the Statutes in Force And Use (first edition 1642, second edition, 1655). "These volumes embrace but a short period, and the work is a mere supplement to the earlier Abridgments, but it is a good authority." Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 402. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:19 (15).« less