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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Any printed literary composition, though in a single sheet, but more commonly, %uch a composition in several sheets folded and bound together so as to make uniform leaves and pages; a collection of sheets containing written entries, bound together in book entries the books, etc. Book eases: adjudged cases reported and printed. Book of acts: the records of a surrogate's court Book of assises: V.

Liber assisarum

Book of flefs: v. Feudorum libri.

In English law

Book of rates: a table of customs duties authorized by parliament In Scots law. Book of adjournal: the original records of criminal trials. V. Adjournal. Book of responses: an account kept by the directory of the chancery to note a seizure by a sheriff in particular In Saxon law. Book land: v. Boc land.