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Statham. The learning of the law was thrown into a more methodical form than it had ever yet received by this author, who was a Baron of the Exchequer in time of Edward IV. this was in his Abridgement of the Laws, being a kind of digest containing most titles of the law, arranged in alphabetical order, and comprising under each head adjudged cases, concisely abridged from the Year-books, 4 Reeves, c. xxv. 117....
Abridgment, or Digests of the Law
Abridgment, or Digests of the Law, of ancient authority. The principal of these are Statham's, Brooke's, Fitzherbert's, and Rolle's Abridgments, and Comyn's Digest. Besides these there are Viner's and Bacon's Abridgments, and Harrison's, Chitty's, Fisher's, and Mews' Digests, of later date; and the English and Empire Digest; also the Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England; and The Laws of England, Halsbury, and Hailsham editions....
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement, a work printed in 1568, and an improvement on the plan of Statham and Fitzherbert. The cases are here arranged with more strict regard to the title; but the order in which they are strung together is very little better, being generally guided only by the chronology, Foster....
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