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Author: Wiseman, Robert, Sir, 1613-1654.
Title: The law of laws, or, The excellencie of the civil law above all humane laws whatsoever by Sir Robert Wiseman ... ; together with a discourse concerning the oath ex officio and canonical purgation.
Print source: The law of laws, or, The excellencie of the civil law above all humane laws whatsoever by Sir Robert Wiseman ... ; together with a discourse concerning the oath ex officio and canonical purgation.
Wiseman, Robert, Sir, 1613-1654., Lake, Edward, 1596 or 7-1674.
London: Printed for R. Royston ..., 1664.
Notes:
Includes index.
Second part has special t.p. with title: Lex legum, or, The excellency of the Roman civil law above all other humane laws whatsoever. London, 1656.
Memoranda touching the oath ex offico / by Edw. Lake. London, 1662, has special t.p. and separate paging.
Imperfect: pages stained, with print show-through and loss of print.
Reproduction of original in the Harvard Law School Library.
Subject terms:
Roman law.
Civil law -- England -- Roman influence.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66733.0001.001
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Table of Contents
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The Epistle to the Reader.
table of contents
The Arguments of the Chapters of the First Book.
The Arguments of the Chapters of the Second Book.
VVESENBEC. Parat. Dig. De Just. & jur. nu. 17.
LEX LEGƲM: OR, THE LAW OF LAWS, &c.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
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LEX LEGUM: OR, THE EXCELLENCY Of the Roman CIVIL LAW, Above all other HUMANE LAVVS WHATSOEVER.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
An Index of the principal matters con∣tained in this Book.
ERRATA.
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To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, EARL of STRAFFORD, Viscount Wentworth, Baron Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, Newmarch, Oversley and Rabye, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the GARTER.
To the READER.
Anno 13. CAROLI II. Regis.
The Contents of the Chapters.
TOUCHING The OATH EX OFFICIO, AND CANONICAL PURGATION.
CHAP. I.
CHAP II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
A Manuscript treating of the Oath Ex officio, said to be Doctor Davenants, late Lord Bishop of Sarisbury.
The Theological Determination of Dr. Lancelot Andrews, afterwards Lord Bishop of Win∣chester, had in the publick Divinity-Schools in Cambridge, in the Moneth of July 1591. upon this Question following.
notes on laws
Touching Parliaments.
Touching the Age of Parliament-men.
Touching the Election of Parliament-men.
Touching the manner of proceeding in Parliament, in the Commons House in the Long-Parliament.
Touching new Laws, Declarations, &c. to be made, and old Laws to be repealed and altered.
Touching Ecclesiastical Persons, Courts and Causes.
Touching the suppressing of all Books and Writings, published against the Regal Rights, or the Right of the Subject.
A Table of the Particulars contained in the Notes touching alteration of some Laws.