The Office of Constable: Being an Entirely New Compendium of the Law Concerning That Ancient Minister for the Conservation of the Peace, Carefully ... Containing Some Account of the Origin - Softcover
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It was. Long fince objeéted as a fault to the profer lbrs of the law, that they wrote their reports and books of the law, in a firange and unknown tongue, which none could underfiand but themfelves, to the end that people being kept'in ignorance of the law, might the more ad mire their fltill and knowlege, and efieem and value it at a higher price. Preface to Sir john Davis's Reports, publilhed in 1628.
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