| 单词 | books of years and terms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbooks of years and terms (c) books of years and terms (also years and terms): the Year Books of the English courts (see yearbook n. 1). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > law report > books of reports book?1518 books of years and termsc1523 yearbook1579 paper-book?1608 bench book1860 c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. A.2v Ye knowlege of the frenche tong..shalbe a great helpe & furtheraunce vnto them whan they shall study other higher workes of the law of more dyfyculte as be the bokys of yerys and termys. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 239/1 In the yeres and termes called Hunnes case. a1628 J. Doddridge Lawyers Light (1629) 94 Expresse Rules, Axiomes, Grounds and Positions of the former sort are published in the booke of Law, either in the Lattin tongue..or else in the French..wherewith the said bookes of yeares and tearmes..are fully furnished. 1680 W. Lawrence Marriage by Morall Law of God ii. i. 309 When I diligently consider the Course of our Books of Years and Terms, from the beginning of the Reign of Ed. the Third, I observe that [etc.]. 1764 T. Mortimer New Hist. Eng. I. vii. 698/1 It is true we have no printed continued report of this king's reign; but the entire years and terms thereof are extant in a manuscript. 1835 Legal Examiner & Law Chron. 24 June 278 Sir Matthew Hale, in his History of the Common Law,..speaking of the years and terms of King Edward the Second's reign says, ‘The best copy of the Reports that I know, now extant, is that in Lincoln's Inn library.’ 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1889/1 Year Books, or Books of Years and Terms, reports, in a regular series, from the time of Edward II to Henry VIII. < as lemmas |
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