Robert Kelham

Robert Kelham, 1717-1808

Biographical Details

• First name: Robert
• Last name: Kelham
• Birth date: 1717
• Death date: 1808
• Creations: Language material, Text
• Roles: Author, Contributor
• Permalink: https://biography.lawi.org.uk/robert-kelham/ (Stable identifier)

Other names of Robert Kelham

• Kelham, Robert
• Robert Kelham
• Robert Kelham (English attorney and legal antiquarian)

People related with Robert Kelham

• Bouvier, John (1787-1851)
• Breton, John le (d. 1275)
• Britton
• Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
• Read, Jacob (1752-1816)
• Selden, John (1584-1654)
• Wilkins, David (1685-1745)

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Publications by Robert Kelham

• A law dictionary, adapted to the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and of the several states of the American union : with references to the civil and other systems of foreign law
• A dictionary of the Norman or old French language : collected from such Acts of Parliament, Parliament rolls, journals, Acts of State, records, law books, Antient Historians, And Manuscripts, AS Relate To This Nation. Calculated To illustrate the Rights and Customs of former Ages, the Forms of Laws and Jurisprudence, the Names of Dignities and Offices, of Persons and Places ; and to render the Reading of those Records, Books, and Manuscripts, which are written in that Language, more easy ; as well as to restore the true Sense and Meaning of many Words, hitherto deemed quite obscure or mistranslated. To which are added the laws of William the Conqueror, With Notes And References. By Robert Kelham, Of Lincolns-Inn.
• Britton : containing the antient pleas of the crown
• A law dictionary, adapted to the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and of the several States of the American Union : with references to the civil and other systems of foreign law, to which is added Kelham’s Dictionary of the Norman and Old French language
• The laws of William the Conqueror, with notes and references. I. The Laws of William (being the same, as the Title imports, which Edward the Confessor observed before him) in three Columns ; viz. the Laws themselves in the Norman Language, with Dr. Wilkins’s Latin Translation of them in opposite Columns ; and an English Translation in another Column, with Notes ; and also References from each Law, to the Anglo-Saxon Laws. II. The 52d, 55th, 58th, 59th and 63d Laws, in Latin, of William, which, towards the latter End of his Reign, he added to those of Edward the Confessor, and by which he established the Feodal System here ; translated into English, with occasional Notes. By Robert Kelham, Of Lincolns-Inn
• A dictionary of the Norman of old French Language … to which are added the laws of William the Conqueror.
• An alphabetical index to all the abridgements of law and equity, and to several books of the Crown law, conveyancing, and practice; with their divisions and subdivisions. Chiefly calculated to facilitate the references to the General abridgement of law and equity, by Charles Viner, Esq; by substituting pages in the stead of letters, and to render all the other abridgements more easy and useful. To which are added a list of those subscribers to Mr. Viner’s Abridgement, who were omitted in that printed at Oxford.
• A dictionary or the Norman of Old French language : collected from such acts of Parliament, Parliament rolls, journals, acts of state, records, law books, antient historians, and manuscripts, as relate to this nation … : to which are added The laws of William the Conqueror, with notes and references