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Shakespeare's legal maxims

Chapter 1: SHAKESPEARE’S LEGAL MAXIMS.
By William Lowes Rushton
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A legal study that collects and explains the law maxims embedded in Shakespeare's works, showing how the plays translate Latin legal phrases into English and illustrating common law principles through textual examples. The author annotates passages, clarifies law terms and customs, corrects previous scholarly mistakes, and compares these usages with established maxims and legal authorities. He supplies illustrative citations and argues that many legal aphorisms are woven into the verse and prose in ways that nonlegal commentators may overlook.

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Title: Shakespeare's legal maxims

Author: William Lowes Rushton

Release date: December 20, 2025 [eBook #77514]

Language: English

Original publication: Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1907

Credits: Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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SHAKESPEARE’S LEGAL
MAXIMS.

SHAKESPEARE’S LEGAL
MAXIMS.

BY
WILLIAM LOWES RUSHTON,
OF GRAY’S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Corresponding Member of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages;
Corresponding Member of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, U.S.A.;
Corresponding Member of the Manchester Shakespeare Society;
Author of ‘Shakespeare a Lawyer,’ ‘Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors,’
‘Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta,’ ‘Shakespeare’s Testamentary
Language,’ ‘Shakespeare’s Euphuism,’ ‘Shakespeare an Archer,’ &c.

Juvat integros accedere fontes atque haurire.

Lucretius.

It is pleasant to handle an untouched subject.

Henry Fielding.

LIVERPOOL:
HENRY YOUNG & SONS,
1907.