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This work is more akin to a legal encyclopedia, containing cohesive treatments of whole areas of the law, with references to statutes and authoritative treatises, as well as decided cases (both in printed reports and from MSS), rather than simply an abridgement or digest of the reports. <ref> Johnson 4 (10 copies); Cowley 257 (v.1-4), 230 (v.%) & p. Ix-Ixiv; S&M 1:16(1); Marvin 85; Bridgman 10; Worrall 4; Holdsworth, HEL 12:169; Holdsworth, Sources 110; Winfield 242, Baker, E:H 186; ODNB 'Bacon, Matthew'; ESTC N5624 (v.1-4), T145688 (v.5). </ref>
  
 
==Bibliographic Information==
 
==Bibliographic Information==

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by Matthew Bacon

This work is more akin to a legal encyclopedia, containing cohesive treatments of whole areas of the law, with references to statutes and authoritative treatises, as well as decided cases (both in printed reports and from MSS), rather than simply an abridgement or digest of the reports. [1]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Matthew Bacon

Title: A New Abridgment of the Law

Published: Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers for J. Worrall and Co., 1768.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary calf with contrasting spine labels.Each volume is signed "John Hebb 1768" on the front free endpaper. Purchased from Nostre Livers.

References

  1. Johnson 4 (10 copies); Cowley 257 (v.1-4), 230 (v.%) & p. Ix-Ixiv; S&M 1:16(1); Marvin 85; Bridgman 10; Worrall 4; Holdsworth, HEL 12:169; Holdsworth, Sources 110; Winfield 242, Baker, E:H 186; ODNB 'Bacon, Matthew'; ESTC N5624 (v.1-4), T145688 (v.5).