The 'Termes' of Chaucer's Sergeant of the Law
- Author / Editor
- Wentersdorf, Karl P.
The 'Termes' of Chaucer's Sergeant of the Law
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 53 (1981): 269-74.
- Description
- After discussing various readings for the phrase, "In termes hadde he cas and doomes alle..." (GP 323), Wentersdorf argues that "term" is equivalent to a court session: thus, when courts were in session, this man of law had at his disposal all the legal precedents pertaining to the case he was arguing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.