Ordonnance du Roy svr l'abbreviation des proces, et consignation de certaine somme de deniers par ceux qui plaideront. Publié en la Cour de Parlement a Paris, le treizieme iour de mois de Decebre 1563. [device].
A royal ordinance printed in Paris in 1563 by Robert Estienne, printer to the King of France, setting rules for shortening lawsuits and deposits for litigants, addressed to the courts and the public. The first picture is a printer's device of a figure beneath a tree with a banner reading 'Nogiatum Sapere', and the second is a historiated initial C beside a line of black-letter text, showing how a small framed device and a decorated capital can anchor a legal page.
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