Two dialogues in english Between A Doctour of Divinity, and A Student in the Laws of england, of The Ground of the said Laws, And of Concscience.
London.
Printed by John Streater, Eliz. Flesher, and Henry Twyford, 1673.
Newly Revised and Re-printed.
8vo.
[2], 366pp, [8]. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, title in manuscript to head of spine and fore-edge. Rubbed and marked, joints starting. Early manuscript notes and ownership inscriptions to front endpapers and title page, small marginal hole to leaf N4, without RFEP.
A revised edition of lawyer Christopher Saint Germain's (1460-1540) seminal treatise on the relationship between the English common law and conscience; the first study of the role of equity in English law. The two dialogues in English were initially published together in 1531. The Latin edition of the first dialogue originally appeared in 1528 as Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia.
ESTC R32072, Wing S317.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 25204
