Authority Cited: Cowel[l]
Author name and dates: John Cowell (1564-1611)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge civil law professor; 1607 law dictionary emphasizing the King’s prerogatives ordered burnt by Parliament
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: The first edition was 1607. The edition SJ used is unknown, but appears to be 1658 or before, as editions after this date use "cosinage" rather than "covin" in the definition for abate. About 238 Cowell cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 51 cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additional Cowell cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. A sample of a few headwords for which Cowell is cited is given below.]
Author name and dates: John Cowell (1564-1611)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge civil law professor; 1607 law dictionary emphasizing the King’s prerogatives ordered burnt by Parliament
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: The first edition was 1607. The edition SJ used is unknown, but appears to be 1658 or before, as editions after this date use "cosinage" rather than "covin" in the definition for abate. About 238 Cowell cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 51 cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additional Cowell cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. A sample of a few headwords for which Cowell is cited is given below.]
- The interpreter, or, Book containing the signification of words wherein is set forth the true meaning of all, or the most partof such words and terms as are mentioned in the law-writers or statutes of this victorious and renowned kingdom requiring any exposition or interpretation: a work not only profitable but necessary for such as desire thoroughly to be instructed in the knowledge of our laws, statutes, or other antiquities. Collected by John Cowell, Doctor, sometime the Kings Majesties Professor of the Civil Law in the University of Cambridge. 1658, London : Printed by F. Leach and are to be sold by Hen. Twyford, Tho. Dring, and Io. Place; abate; abatement; abbot; advowson; backcarry; badger; cantred; capias; capite; castleward; damage; dean; easement; empannel; fee; feoffment; gavelkind; grant; habeus corpus; ignoramus; infangthef; journeyman; justice (several senses); keeper; leet; legacy; manor; misprison; nisi prius; panel; parcenery; recognisance; remitter; scire facias; seizin; taillage; teller; vacation; verge; unity; wapentake; warden;
- Cowell (no work cited);