Regula Placitandi, A Collection of Special Rules for Pleading..

1694. London, 1694. Second edition. London, 1694. Second edition. "Very Useful and Necessary for Clerks, Attorneys, Solicitors, &c." [Pleading]. [Great Britain]. Regula Placitandi. A Collection of Special Rules for Pleading, From the Declaration to the Issue, In Actions Real, Personal, And Mixt; with the Distinction of Words to be Used Therein, Or Refused. Also Directions for Laying of Actions, Of the Time for Bringing Them, And of the Persons to Bring the Same. Together With Some Remarks and Observations Touching Averments, Notice, Request or Demand, Justifications, Innuendo's, Protestando, Traverse, Averment, Double Pleas, Abatements, Demurrers, Trials, Verdicts, Judgments, Writs of Error, Estoppels and Conclusions. With Divers Precedents, Illustrating and Explaining the Same: Very Useful and Necessary for Clerks, Attorneys, Solicitors, &c. Corrected. London: Printed by the Assigns of R. And E. Atkyns, Esquires [et al.], 1694. [viii], 310, [26] pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Minor nicks, scratches and shallow scuffs to boards, rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends, joints starting, corners bumped and moderately worn, hinges cracked, rear free endpaper lacking. Moderate toning and foxing to interior, offsetting to margins of endleaves and final text leaf, "R" and "F" in early hand to front free endpaper. $350. * Second edition, one of two issues from 1694. As noted by Holdsworth, pleading was a topic of "great and growing importance" during the seventeenth century. This importance is evident in the large number of pleading manuals issued at this time. First published in 1691, the anonymous Regula Placitandi was one of the best works of its kind. It was the primary source for several subsequent manuals. Holdsworth, A History of English Law VI:600. English Short-Title Catalogue R232089.