Law French: A Rare Book Room Open House
Detail from William de Machlinia, Abbreviamentum statutorum [London]: [John Lettou and William de Machlinia,] [1481 or 1482]. Taussig 001 xtall
Blackstone called it that “barbarous dialect.” Roger North found the alternative “françoise, or very uncouth.” Frolic in françoise at November’s Rare Book open house on Law French, the legal dialect in use in English courts from the thirteenth century until banned by statute in 1731.
Monday & Wednesday, November 17 & 19, 12-1:15pm
Rare Book Room
Lillian Goldman Law Library, Lower Level 2
Topics
Rare Books
