Saint Germain, Christopher; Muchall, William ed

Doctor and Student: or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England: Containing the Grounds of Those Laws; Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity Thereof.

      Saint Germain, Christopher [1460- - 1540]. Muchall, William, Editor. [With] Additions to the Second Dialogue of the Doctor and Student: Containing Thirteen Chapters on the Power and Jurisdiction of the Parliament, &c. Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 1792. vi, [9], 344, [32] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, boards slightly bowed. Later bookseller ticket and owner annotation (of Jonathan Holden, 1935) to front free endpaper, early owner annotation to following leaf "Stephen Eno's book/ March 1816/ price 2 dollars." Toning, light foxing to a few leaves. Annotations in Eno's hand to margins of some leaves, interior otherwise clean. * Only Dublin edition, "Corrected and Improved." Written originally in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and other issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very important work in the development of equity, Doctor and Student appeared in numerous editions and it remained an authority well into the eighteenth century. The probable owner of this book was Stephen Eno [1762-1852], a prominent lawyer and civic leader in Dutchess County, New York who practiced in Pine Plains, Amenia, and Poughkeepsie. Legal Bibliography (1847) 471. Warren, Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:25 (34). [Attributes: Hard Cover]