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 cow COVENTRY, T. Concise Forms in Conveyancing. 4th ed. 12nio. London. 1831. COVERT, NICH. The Scrivener's Guide. Being choice and ap- proved Precedents of all sorts of Business, now in use and Prac- tice. 5th ed. much enlarged, particularly relating to Bankruptcy, and the whole made agreeable to the present Practice. 3d ed. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1740. COWELL, JOHN. Institutiones juris Anglicani ad Methodum et Seriem Institutionum Lnperialium coniposita; et digesta. 8vo. Cantab. 16G4, 1G51, 1630, 1605. Dr. Cowell's work is written after the method of Justinian's Insti- tutes, " with the view that in the Universities where the Civil Law was taught, the transition might be made more easy to an acquaintance with the municipal law." The author was well skilled in both the common and civil law, and he is one of the very few writers upon English juris- prudence who has written in Latin. His work is founded upon the old Feudal Tenures, such as the law of wards and liveries, tenures in capite, and knight service, which he has treated with considerable ability in " elegant Latin, but it has passed, with the learning which it contains, into almost total oblivion." It was, however, so highly esteemed dur- ing the Commonwealth, as to have had the honor of being translated into English by order of Parliament, by W. G. 8vo., London, 1651. 1 Kent's Com. 508 ; Blax. Codex. 146 ; Pref. Wood's Civil Law, 88 ; Pref. Blackstone's Analysis, 6 ; Pref. Gregor's Fortescue, 17. ■ . A Law Dictionary ; or the Literpreter of words and terms used either in the Common or Statute Laws of Eng- land, and in Tenures or jocular Customs ; much augmented and improved. With an Appendix, containing two Tables : one, of the Ancient Names and Places in Great Britain, the other, of the Ancient Surnames, fol. 1607, 1609, 1038, 1072, 1684, 1701, 1708, 1727. The Interpreter was written at the suggestion of Bishop Bancroft, and is an enlargement of a Treatise ascribed to Fitzherbert, entitled " Les Termes de la Ley^ It was the misfortune of Cowell to live in tyran- nical times, and some of the author's enemies, among whom were Sir Edward Coke, discovered that the Interpreter contained what they repre- sented to be dangerous doctrines, under the titles Subsidy, Parliament, King, Prnhihilion, Sec. One of the crimes laid to Cowell's charge, " was his vilifying the laws of England, and endeavoring to expose Littleton's Tenures; whereas, in truth, all that could justly be charged 233