Voir Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth, I

6. Voici le texte : « AU Pleas, Records, Bonds, and Proccedings in Courts of Justice in England and Wales, or in the Exchequer in Scotland, shall he in English, and writin words at length and in acommon hand » i Geo. II, c. 26, § 1. Une atténuation fut accordée deux ans plus tard : « Except Known Abbreviations and technical Words I», 6 Geo. II, c. 14, § 5 (cf. tilackstonc, Commentaries on the laws of England^ 1778, III, 319).