Excerpt from The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or a Commentary Upon Littleton, Vol. 1 of 3: Not the Name of the Author Only, but of the Law Itself
To the whole will be prefixed a new Preface, by the editor of the present edition. In this preface, he proposes, in the first place, to consider the merit of Littleton's Tenure: and Sir Edward Coke's Commentary, and to point out the excellen cies of each; in the next place, to give a particular account of the several editions of both; and, lastly, to explain how this will difi'er from the former editions.
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