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FITZHERBERT, SIR ANTHONY (1470–1538)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 446 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FITZHERBERT, See also:
SIR
SIR See also:
ANTHONY, SAINT
ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)
ANTHONY (1470–1538) , See also:

ENGLISH

English jurist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Norbury, See also:

DERBYSHIRE

Derbyshire. After studying at See also:

Oxford, he was called to the English See also:

bar, and in 1523 became See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the See also:

Court of See also:

COMMON

Common Pleas, the duties of which See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he continued to See also:

DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge till within a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

time of his See also:

DEATH

death in 1538. As a See also:

JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge he See also:

LEFT

left behind him a high reputation for fairness and integrity, and his legal learning is sufficiently attested by his published See also:

WORKS

works. He is the author of La Graunde Abridgement, a See also:

DIGEST

digest of important legal cases written in Old See also:

French, first printed in 1514; The Office and Authority of Justices of the See also:

Peace, first printed in 1538 (last ed. 1794); the New Natura Brevium (1534, last ed. 1794), with a commentary ascribed to Sir See also:

Matthew See also:

Hale. To Fitzherbert are sometimes attributed the See also:

BOOK

Book of Husbandry('523),the first published See also:

WORK

work on See also:

agriculture in the English See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and the Book of See also:

SURVEYING

Surveying and Improvements (1523) (see AGRICULTURE).

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