Voir Gardincr, History of the Commonwealth^ I

6. Voici le texte : « AU Pleas, Records, Bonds, and Proceedings in Courts of Justice in England and Wales, or in the Exchequer in Scotland, shall he in English, and writ in words at length and in acommon hand » 4 Geo. II, c. 26, § 1. Une atténuation fut accordée deux ans plus tard : « Except Known Abbreviations and technical Words », 6 Geo. Il, c. 14, § 5 (cf. Blackstonc, Commentaries on the laws'of England^ 1778, m, 319).