232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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Most English legal texts before 1600, and many from the seventeenth century are written in law French, a dialect which differs considerably both from current French and from old Norman French. Only two guides to law French were published , one in 1701 and the other in 1779: both were full of errors and omissions. This current manual is a revised and considerably enlarged version of the first... Read more
Contents: Introduction to law French: History of lawyers' French; The study of law French; Some notes on grammar; Common abbreviations and contractions; Bibliography of aids to interpretation: Medieval word-lists; Modern glossaries of law French and Anglo-Norman; Dictionaries of old French and French etymological works; English dictionaries; Latin dictionaries; Translations and parallel texts; Guides to grammar and morphology.
Biography
J.H. Baker, LL.D., F.B.A., is a Professor of English Legal History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. Catherine's College.
