Woodbine, George E. Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910. First Edition. [9057]
Olive publisher's cloth, 8 1/4 x 5 inches, ex academic library with standard markups, including a white label on the spine. Binding very good, text is otherwise clean, tight. 183 pp. Good. Hardcover.
"One of the most interesting of the many types of manuscript volumes from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is that which was compiled for the use of English lawyers during the period of the first three Edwards." - Introduction.
The tracts are herein printed in their original language (Law French), with introductions in English. They are Fet Asaver, Judicium Essoniorum, Modus Componendi Brevia, and Exceptiones ad Cassandum Brevia.