Talk:Termes de la Ley

Further details are here:

http://www.archive.org/details/lestermesdelale00unkngoog

?? This is just a link to the 1636 Termes de la Ley. Belastro (talk) 06:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

what is this stuff
"Duke LJ. said that this book was "a work of very good authority and the application of the common law".[6] He, and Atkin LJ, approved the definition of imprisonment contained in this book.[7]"

What is a "Duke LJ." thing? What is an "Atkin LJ" thing? Assuming that they are some sort of humans because the "Duke LJ" thing is said to have spoken ("said"), why should their opinions matter to a reader?

The Expositions definition of imprisonment did not appear until the 1579 edition, but it subsequently never changed. By then, John Rastell was long gone (1536), and William Rastell was already dead (1565). Thus, who crafted this definition?

In any event, given that what was "said" was said, apparently, in 1918, this was long after the 1579 printing of this definition. The Atkin LJ thing and the Duke LJ thing therefore could not very well have "approved" the definition. It had already long been accepted, and those LJ things must have also accepted it. They may have "approved of" it, or referred to it "approvingly", but they did not "approve" it, they did nothing to allow this definition to be published.

But why is it relevant in an article on Rastell's work to mention that two random LJ things quoted a random definition that was added to an edition printed long after the author(s) had died? How does this enlighten us?

Was this perhaps an attempt to demonstrate a continuing value for this work? Or the continuing influence, centuries later, of Law French? The editor here would then, I suppose, also need to show that the 1579 definition of imprisonment is somehow more germane, at least in some context, than a corresponding definition taken from a 21st-century law dictionary.

Note that this issue is not about the definition of imprisonment found in Les Termes de la Ley, which is actually a fairly nice statement.

Would anyone object to the deletion of this sentence? Belastro (talk) 06:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC)