Termes de la Ley

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Expositiones terminorum legum Angliae ('Explanation of legal terms used in England') (1527) is a legal glossary compiled by John Rastell. Although the title is in Latin, the work was written in Law French. This Law French edition did not reappear. However, it was translated by his son, William Rastell, into English and published in 1563 as An Exposition of Certaine Difficult and Obscure Wordes and Termes of the Lawes of This Realme.{{Cite book|last=Gillow|first=Joseph|url=https://archive.org/details/literarybiograph0005gill|title=A Literary and Biographical History; or, Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics|publisher=Burt Franklin|year=1968|volume=5|location=New York|pages=391–392|language=English|oclc=555243129|author-link=Joseph Gillow|url-access=registration}}{{Cite book|last=Tomlins|first=Christopher L.|url=https://archive.org/details/manylegalitiesof0000unse|title=The Many Legalities of Early America|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-8078-2632-4|at=p. 51, n. 8|oclc=833764357|url-access=registration}} Many editions followed through 1618. After 1620, the work was published and known as Les Termes de la Ley, and it was also often reprinted under that title.WordCat catalogue.

This work and The Abbreviacion of Statutis (1519) are the best known of Rastell's legal writings.{{ EB1911| wstitle= Rastell, John |volume= 22 |page = 914 }} Lord Kenyon said that it is "a very excellent book".[[{{cite book |last1=Marvin |first1=J. G. |title=Legal Bibliography, or A Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books |date=1847 |publisher=T. & J. W. Johnson |location=Philadelphia |page=599}}|

[https://books.google.com/books?id=DSNEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA599 Page 599]] at Google Books.

Duke LJ. said that this book was "a work of very good authority and the application of the common law".Meering v Grahame White Aviation Co (1919) 122 LT 44, [1918-19] All ER Rep 1490 at 1502 and 1503. (The passage in question is set out in [http://www.judgments.im/content/J647.htm R v Sayle], 29 September 2008, Court of General Gaol Delivery, Isle of Man.) He, and Atkin LJ, approved the definition of imprisonment contained in this book.Ibid., and at 1507.

See also 4 Reeves 419 and 3 Dib Ames 90.{{explain|date=January 2024|reason=What are these things? If they are references, how can a reader verify them? Links would be nice. P.S. Already noted by Marvin.}}